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[CTP] Apply the ZNC cross-section ratio after the pile-up correction - #15721

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This fixes the order of the division by 28 and the Poisson inversion in CTPRateFetcher::fetch,
because the 28 is a ratio of cross sections and belongs on mu, not on a counting rate that has
already saturated, and it harmonizes fetch with getLumi, which already divides after the
correction. O2DPG divides in that order too, in MC/bin/o2dpg_sim_workflow_anchored.py.

The PbPb hadronic rate returned by fetch(..., "ZNC hadronic") is 2.7 % low at mu_ZNC = 0.055
and 5.4 % low at mu_ZNC = 0.116, so anything reading it as the PbPb interaction rate rises by
that much. Every other source is unchanged. Derivation and numbers are in the added
DataFormats/Detectors/CTP/CTPRateFetcher.md.

This fixes the order of the division by 28 and the Poisson inversion in
CTPRateFetcher::fetch, harmonizing it with getLumi.

- The 28 is a ratio of cross sections, so it belongs on mu and not on a counting
  rate that has already saturated.
- The PbPb hadronic rate returned is 2.7 % low at mu_ZNC = 0.055 and 5.4 % low
  at mu_ZNC = 0.116.
- Every other source gets a ratio of one and is unchanged.
- The derivation and the numbers are in the new CTPRateFetcher.md.

https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/O2-7143

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@sawenzel sawenzel changed the title Apply the ZNC cross-section ratio after the pile-up correction [CTP] Apply the ZNC cross-section ratio after the pile-up correction Aug 25, 2026
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