Hadronic Trigger using electromagnetic calorimeter and particle identification at high-pT with STAR Detector

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

We derive a new method to improve the statistics of identified particles at high transverse momentum (\pt) using online-triggered events by the Barrel Electro-Magnetic-Calorimeter (BEMC) detector. The BEMC is used to select hadronic interaction and energy deposit from showers created by charged hadrons (π±,K±π^{\pm},K^{\pm} and pp(pˉ\bar{p})) in the BEMC. With this trigger, the statistics of the high \pt particles are significantly enhanced by about a factor of 100 with selection efficiency up to 20%. In addition, resonant states (ρ0ρ^0, K⋆K^{\star}) and weak-decay V0 (\Ks and \La(\aLa)) can be constructed by selecting the BEMC-trigger hadron as one of its daughters. We also show that the trigger efficiency can be obtained reliably in simulation and data-driven approaches.

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