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Event reconstruction is necessary to transform quantities the detector records such as energy of hits, location of hits, and time of hits into physics quantities. These quantities may be, for example, the mass of the particle traveling through the detector, the particle’s momentum, or the charge of the particle. Knowledge of these physics quantities allows an experimenter to classify events and quantify interactions.Identifying and reconstructing a DIS event requires measuring the muon energy and angle, as well as the energy of the final state hadronic system. Particle identification is necessary to identify or “tag” the primary muon. Identifying the particle type of the final state hadrons is in general not necessary. The physics quantities of interest are the energy (E had) and invariant mass (W) of the final state hadrons, neither of which depend on the details of the hadrons masses or charges.
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Mousseau, J.A. (2017). Event Reconstruction. In: First Search for the EMC Effect and Nuclear Shadowing in Neutrino Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering at MINERvA. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44841-1_6
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