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[WIP] Check TTCA weight calculation in PWGEM/Dilepton tasks
Fix cfgRequireTrueAssociation not applied in TTCA weight calculation
Apr 14, 2026
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Pull request overview
This PR fixes TTCA weight normalization when cfgRequireTrueAssociation = true in PWGEM/Dilepton MC QC tasks by ensuring tracks/pairs that fail the MC collision association are also excluded from the TTCA denominator (consistent with the existing fill-time filtering).
Changes:
- Add
cfgRequireTrueAssociationfiltering tofillTrackWeightMap()inSingleTrackQCMC.hfor both dielectron and dimuon paths. - Add
cfgRequireTrueAssociationfiltering tofillPairWeightMap()inDileptonMC.hfor ULS / LS++ / LS-- combinations. - Apply the same pair-weight fix to the task-level implementation in
checkMCPairTemplate.cxx.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
PWGEM/Dilepton/Core/SingleTrackQCMC.h |
Excludes non-true-associated tracks from the TTCA weight denominator in track weight map building. |
PWGEM/Dilepton/Core/DileptonMC.h |
Excludes non-true-associated pairs from the TTCA weight denominator in pair weight map building (ULS/LS++/LS--). |
PWGEM/Dilepton/Tasks/checkMCPairTemplate.cxx |
Mirrors the pair TTCA denominator fix in the task implementation to keep weighting consistent with fill-time selection. |
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When
cfgRequireTrueAssociation = true, tracks/pairs failing the MC collision association check were correctly rejected during histogram filling, but still counted in the TTCA weight denominator — causing weights of1/Ninstead of1/1and under-filled histograms.Affected files
PWGEM/Dilepton/Core/SingleTrackQCMC.h—fillTrackWeightMap(): missing check for both electron and muon loopsPWGEM/Dilepton/Core/DileptonMC.h—fillPairWeightMap(): missing check for ULS, LS++, and LS-- combination loopsPWGEM/Dilepton/Tasks/checkMCPairTemplate.cxx—fillPairWeightMap(): same as aboveFix
Added
cfgRequireTrueAssociationguard in each weight-building loop to mirror the filter already applied at fill time:This ensures only tracks/pairs that actually enter histograms are counted in
N, keepingweight = 1/Ncorrect under all configurations.Original prompt
Recherche: TTCA-Gewichtsberechnung-Bug in anderen PWGEM/Dilepton Tasks
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Überprüfe alle Task-Dateien im
PWGEM/DileptonVerzeichnis, ob sie das gleiche TTCA-Gewichtsberechnung-Problem haben wieSingleTrackQCMC.h.Problem-Muster
Suche nach Dateien, die:
cfgRequireTrueAssociationConfigurable verwendenfillTrackWeightMap()oder ähnliche Gewichtsberechnung-Funktion habenrunQCMC()oder ähnlichen Funktionen durchgeführt wirdBetroffenes Muster
Dateien zum Überprüfen
PWGEM/Dilepton/Tasks/*.cxxPWGEM/Dilepton/Core/*.hFokus auf:
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User: In dem Task SingleTrackQCMC.h task gibt es die Configurable cfgRequireTrueAssociation.
Wie beeinflusst diese das füllen der Histogramme?
In dem Task kann zusätzlich die TTCAweigths angewendet werden, die den Beitrag gewichten. Erkläre mir wie diese Gewichte berechnet werden, und ob die cfgRequireTrueAssociation das Gewicht beeinflusst.
cfgRequireTrueAssociation sollte nur dann Tracks in die Histogramme füllen, wenn der Track tatsächlich zur Kollision gehört. Das weight sollte dementsprechend angepasst werden, sodass das weight nur dann von 1 verschieden ist, wenn tracks mehrfach aufgrund der Assoziierung von dem selben tracks zu unterschiedlichen Kollisionen stattfindet und dadurch mehrfach in das selbe Histogramm gefüllt wird.
Assistant: Ich werde mir den Task SingleTrackQCMC.h ansehen und die Auswirkungen von
cfgRequireTrueAssociationund den TTCAweights analysieren.Assistant: Lass mich die konkrete SingleTrackQCMC.h Datei in der Dilepton-Struktur finden:
Assistant: Jetzt habe ich den vollständigen SingleTrackQCMC.h Code. Lassen Sie mich eine detaillierte Analyse erstellen:
Analyse: cfgRequireTrueAssociation und TTCAweights in SingleTrackQCMC
1. Wirkung von cfgRequireTrueAssociation auf die Histogrammfüllung
Die Configurable cfgRequireTrueAssociation (Zeile 101) steuert, ob nur Tracks akzeptiert werden, deren MC-Partikel zur gleichen MC-Collision gehört wie die rekonstruierte Collision.
In der runQCMC-Funktion (Zeile 862-864):
Effekt:
2. TTCA Weights - Berechnung und Zweck
TTCA = "Time To Collision Association"
Die Weights werden in der Funktion fillTrackWeightMap (Zeile 1025-1119) berechnet:
Beispiel:
n = 31/3≈0.333In fillTrackInfo (Zeile 635-638):