1. P0D Reconstruction Systematic Error Estimation Norm Buchanan, David Connick, Eric Conrad, Fahmida Khanam

2. First Draft of Plan Time is of the essence so we want to get reasonable estimates of track and shower reconstruction systematic uncertainties as well as systematics for particle identification. This purpose of this presentation is to throw out ideas and get feedback – our timescale won’t allow fishing expeditions so we have to make our effort count! Approach for track and shower systematics Identify subset of reconstruction parameters that contribute measurably to analysis Determine what level of “smearing” of parameters is reasonable Adjust parameters of interest and look at effect on MC/data difference after reprocessing (running p0dRecon). Question: what sample size is reasonable? Approach for PID systematics Want to determine the effect of likelihood parameter variation on outputs (defined in OAAnalysis DST – so less overhead to study) Were studies like this performed when constructing likelihoods?

3. Reconstruction Parameters Minimum hits for a cycle to be saved Minimum Hits must be in a time window Minimum number of cleaned hits Minimum hits in a track. Minimum length of a track. Road following if non-zero The width of the road. Max hits out of road added to layer Debug seed tracks if non zero. Minimum hits collected by Hough.

4. Reconstruction Parameters Fit window length Minimum hits in fit window. Max time between tracks in a vertex Max uncertainty in a pairwise vertex Max distance between combined vertices

5. Reconstruction Parameters

6. Status We are using p0dRecon v7r5 for our studies Samples Data: equivalent set of Run1+Run2 data to Glenn’s list (~4E19 POT) MC: MCP4 Spin B neut MC (water) reco files (100 files or ~5E19 POT) Machinery in Place Questions/Comments 1. It would be very helpful to know how parameters were chosen – no P0D reco technical write-up currently exists. Is there any information on how parameters were chosen? 2. Are the parameters chosen so far reasonable – have we missed any obvious choices? Any and all suggestions are welcomed!