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A general procedure for detector-response correction of higher order cumulants

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2018-10-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We propose a general procedure for the detector-response correction (including efficiency correction) of higher order cumulants observed by the event-by-event analysis in heavy-ion collisions. This method makes use of the moments of the response matrix characterizing the property of a detector, and is applicable to a wide variety of response matrices such as those having non-binomial responses and including the effects of ghost tracks. A procedure to carry out the detector-response correction of realistic detectors is discussed. In test analyses, we show that this method can successfully re- construct the cumulants of true distribution for various response matrices including the one having multiplicity-dependent efficiency.

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@article{arxiv.1805.00279,
  title  = {A general procedure for detector-response correction of higher order cumulants},
  author = {Toshihiro Nonaka and Masakiyo Kitazawa and ShinIchi Esumi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00279},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures