Re: Monte Carlo Data

[Tom Banks <tbanks@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

> what we really would lke to see are the 3 following plots
> where you take the difference of
> i)
> (lifetime bs r) divided by (lifetime vs m)   for cd = 1ppm
> ii)
> (lifetime bs r) divided by (lifetime vs m)   for cd = nat H2
>
> the difference    (plot i)  divided by  (plot ii)
>
> I assume you have the input nmbers for those plots already.


OK, Bernhard's e-mail confused me, so I'm *sure* it confused Brendan...
First of all, I think for now we should avoid dealing with deuterium
concentrations on the level of natural hydrogen, since that produces
horrible exponential fits and just adds complications.  Secondly, we (that
is, Brendan) should look for differences between the decay rate vs. 'r'
and decay rate vs. 'm' plots; we know there should be a difference between
the two, and we know the "direction" of the difference, so this would
provide a good diagnostic check of the MC output.  Finally, once the MC
output is trustworthy, we would want to look at the "ratio" plots (i.e.
the ones Steve originally produced in his April 12 page) for both the 'r'
and 'm' analyses, and for various different deuterium concentrations.

Tom