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 |