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

115 ns
photon hits BCAL
125 ns to alcove, but BCAL is about 10 feet upstream on the platform
215 ns
BCAL PMT signals reach discriminators
20 ns in PMT plus 80 ns cable
245 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
230 ns + 80 ns? cable, see Tagger trigger timing
310 ns
discriminator sums reach final AND
Delayed to match MOR
325 ns
result of final AND reaches trigger supervisor
15 ns a guess through trigger logic
370 ns
trigger supervisor L1 accept ready
45 ns internal to TS
385 ns
gate reaches ADC crate
15 ns a guess cable plus gate generator plus cable
390 ns
BCAL signals reach ADC crate
20 ns in PMT plus 250 ns cable plus photon flight time