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Now that we have our clusters, we can analyze them. Cluster objects in org.lcsim have a number of methods for obtaining information about a cluster. One is the getShape() method, which returns an array of six doubles. As of this writing, the last three values are not implemented and always return zero. The first value appears to be a measurement of the shower's energy profile by depth in millimeters. The second two appear to give orthogonal measurements of the shower width. The algorithm uses an inertial tensor to generate these values (see org.lcsim.recon.cluster.util.TensorPropertyClusterCalculator for the nitty gritty details; I don't quite understand it myself). See simplePlotssimplePlotter.java for the code used to make these plots.
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The electrons exhibit a very tightly constrained response, whereas the majority of the pions have a very high chi^2 value. There is a peak at 1 in the pion data, but it is one tenth the height of the electron peak. This is most likely due to pion showers which deposit a significant portion of their energy in the EM calorimeter and are discontinuousexpected; the shape data for the pions showed small peaks at values near the electron peaks in all of the measurements. This implies that other categorizations must be used.