Overall trigger timing

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Below is my current understanding of the trigger timing for the BCAL test:


Time
What
Comment
0 ns
electron hits tagger foil

120 ns
photon hits BCAL
BCAL is a few feet upstream of alcove
220 ns
BCAL PMT signals reach discriminators
20 ns in PMT plus 80 ns cable
250 ns
discriminator sum outputs available
30 ns a guess, but must be delayed before final AND in any case
310 ns
Tagger MOR reaches final AND logic

310 ns
discriminator sums reach final AND

325 ns
result of final AND reaches trigger supervisor

370 ns
internal trigger supervisor

385 ns
gate reaches ADC crate