Hello Osamu, Just realized I should have replied to your e-mail, but forgot: > During the meeting today, we were aware that the WCM (or specific > luminosity dist of polarimeter) is wrong for yellow. And we thought > that I(Osamu) had made mistakes to use the blue WCM in the yellow analysis. > > But it turned out that the plot I showed was rael, it means "the yellow > had the bad 5 bunches as well". > Please take a look at follwing two kinds of plots and confirm this fact. What we observe in STAR: - specific luminosity: there is a group of a few bunches: ( bunch crossing 36-40, i.e. Yellow bunches 36-40 collided with Blue bunches 16-20) which has specific luminosity smaller or bigger than for the other bunch crossings. For example fill 2251: www.physics.ucla.edu/~joanna/Fill2251/Run3018025_WCM.ps to be compared with your plots for Fill 2251, run 755 (Blue) 757 (Yellow): http://ccjsun.riken.go.jp/~jinnai3/polarimeter/bunch_sel/Specific/index.html http://spin.riken.bnl.gov/exp/pcpol/2001/Bunch_web/index.html Both STAR and CNI data (specific luminosity) are consistent. The problem with bunch crossings 36-40 I interpreted as originating from Blue beam ( two groups of weak bunches from intensity plot). Yellow looked perfectly "normal" to me, i.e. intensity distribution was flat. >From your(Osamu's) plot however (yellow and blue specific luminosities: specific luminosity for yellow has groups of bad bunches although intensity distribution is flat, specific luminosity for Blue is flat although intensity has 2 groups of weak bunches) one can see, that problematic are Yellow bunches. In STAR (and Phenix) "bad" Yellow bunches collide with low intensity Blue bunches or abort gap ( bunches became bad due to a collision with low intensity bunches? ). So, removing 2 groups of Yellow and 2 groups of Blue bunches results in removing only one group of bunch crossings in STAR (and PHENIX). Regards, Joanna