TPC track analysis

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

Dear Peter et al.,

after our teleconference discussion yesterday, I eliminated *all*
remaining TPC track cuts from the Berkeley software--namely, the
enforcement of coincident strip hits--and modified the code to pass the
strip information downstream to the Ntuples.  Fred has informed me that
a new analysis production is now underway on merlin.  However, I just
remembered that Fred's skimming algorithm made a strip cut!  Thus, even
though my analysis software is no longer making strip cuts, the skimmed
data being analyzed has already undergone a strip cut of some sort.  Fred,
can you remind us of the nature of your skimmer's strip cut?

One other thing: Claude mentioned during the teleconference that he and
Malte agreed that it should be possible to see electron effects in the
vicinity of the muon stop.  Unfortunately, the conversation veered off
without any further discussion of the subject.  Claude and/or Malte, can
you describe what we should expect to see from electron effects?  Should
there be a definite signature, or just some additional EL pixels, or what?

Regards,
Tom