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How to:

  1. Make the root geometry file fvtxgeom.root:
    1. Build a local version of Pisa with your volumes on/off
      1. pisa.kumac: clear geop line, turn only SVX on.
      2. svx.f: lbarrel=.false, set nmed in SICG gsvolu call to 16 (=vacuum)
      3. svx_fvtx.f: change loop over planes, change loop over wedges
    2. pisa < pisa_makegeom.input (uses gffgo_makegeom.dat )
    3. geom_con.csh
  2. To make the plots:
    1. root -l fvtxgeom.root
    2. root > TH2F *h3 = PHENIX->GetVolume("SICG")->LegoPlot(30, 0., 45.,60,-15,15)
    3. root > h3->Draw("lego1")
    4. root > h3->ProjectionY("h3proj",0,59)
    5. root > h3proj->Scale(0.0167)

I made special versions of svx.f and svx_fvtx.f to turn components off. Here, I only turned on the support disk for North station 2 (=layer 10).


This is the r.l. plotted between θ=0°-45°, and over all φ. The rise from 8° to 35° is due to the increasing angle of incidence of rays coming from (0,0,0).

The 'foot' is due to the air inside the VTX/FVTX enclosure, see below.


This is a projection onto the θ-axis.



This is disk 10, wedge 0 only, no support disk.

Note that in the lego plot, the wedge is wider in phi at low theta. That is because a wedge roughly is a slice in phi, plus extra stuff parallel to it on the outside. The 2-D plot is a cut through the center.

You can see air, responsible for about 0.13% r.l.


The features in the red air curve correspond to the corners of the VTX/FVTX enclosure.



This is the whole detector. You can recognize the various VTX structures.


This is the N fvtx , 4 disks, a 15-deg slice in phi (=2 wedges equiv) as seen from (0,0,0)





This is disk 10 only (North station 2).

On this figure, the various components are separately indicated
Thickness of one wedge, plus volume air. Note the reversed scale to match the plot above.



This is the disk-10, support disk only, just for illustration.





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