TOF Calibration
Calibration
The TOF calibration is manly focused on timing, the most important observable the TOF detector is providing. The main correction to the measured time from any given PMT is the walk correction caused by the fact that leading edge discriminators are used to generate the logical signal from the analog PMT signal. Up to now this walk correction has been determined by the shape of the two dimensional distribution of time vs. ADC integral where the time has been referenced to the time as reported by the flash ADC integral. This has the disadvantage that for high rate paddles close to the photon beam line the integral can be distorted due to pile up. A better approach is to use the ADC peak amplitude instead. However such a distribution requires a different functional form as a model. In addition it is also no longer possible to model the full ADC range with one functional form for all paddles at all locations and still have a stable procedure. Instead the ADC region is divided in two with the location of the separation being the dip before the rise of the minimum landau distribution in the ADC response function.
- The functional form has four parameters and is as follows:
a + b*pow(ADC,-0.5) + c*pow(ADC,-0.33) + d*pow(ADC,-0.2)
The two distinct fit regions are indicated by the two colors blue and red, the jump at ADC 4090 is due to overflow and binning effects
