CDC Pedestal Studies
Pedestal Subtraction
Based on cosmic ray data with BCAL trigger Look for events with the following signature in the CDC:
The first test was done by using the region (blue) to determine a pedestal and the region I (red) to determine an Integral and then subtract the proper pedestal from the Intergral as follows: where is the number of samples used to calculate the pedestal and 80 is the number of samples in the Integral I. In the case of no signal the the distribution D is expected to be around zero with a sigma that reflects the resolution and depends on the number samples used in determining the pedestal. As an example the distribution with 4 samples in the pedestal calculation looks like this:
mean F | sigma F | mean I | sigma I | |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | 102.2 | 1293 | 96.5 | 1276 |
16 | 119.0 | 1121 | 163.4 | 1120 |
20 | 121.1 | 1080 | 145.1 | 1080 |
32 | 102.4 | 984 | 159.0 | 978 |
64 | 40.9 | 680 | 84.6 | 685 |
Note this is not what one would expect. The mean should be around zero!
Looking just at the pedestals you get the expected results like here, a pedestal determined over the first 16 samples: