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Revision as of 13:50, 5 September 2011
- Work in progress - intended more as a logbook than presentation of results*
CDC prototype cosmics data
- 50/50 mixed Ar, CO2
- Recalibrated MFCs
- Outer plenum added to CDC prototype to prevent leaks
- New pre-production HVB
- 2050V
- Modified preamp4 (terminating resistors removed)
- Prototype tilted at 30o to enclosing scintillators (scints trigger the daq)
Fed scintillator signals post-discriminator and coincidence signal through then level converter to ECL, then attenuator, into fADC. Took threshold as half peak value (also tried 1/4 and 3/4 peak but these broadened the timing spectra). Used interpolation algo. (The DAQ is triggered by the coinc signal.) The time offset in the first set is equal to the (uninterpolated threshold crossing bin - 10) x 8 ns.
Drift time histogram (for all straws) and expanded about t0
T0 was taken as the x-intercept of a straight line fitted to the leading edge over 10% to 90% of the maximum value. Here this value is 91.3ns.
Drift time vs fitted drift distance using Garfield calculations for 50/50 Ar/CO2 (left) and 49/51 (right).
Resolution (difference between fitted track radius including and excluding that hit from the fit) for ch 20 (straw close to center of prototype)
Resolution for various time increment (offset) dt added to fitted t0, ie t0 = 91.3 + dt, ignoring events before t0
Optimum is offset dt=11ns for 49/51 (15ns for 50/50 has slightly worse resolution)
Check how the mean varies with drift dist around optimum dt
- Replace these plots, this code had some trigger-moving software which is not needed***
Use dt=9ns for 50/50 mix
Re-assign events with time < t0 to a range of early times >= t0
- Plots below are ok
