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Blue straws have hits found, green were part of the track-fitting, pink and lime green have a zero-crossing within 40ns of the hit time. | Blue straws have hits found, green were part of the track-fitting, pink and lime green have a zero-crossing within 40ns of the hit time. | ||
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Conclusion: if the local pedestal is very different from the default event pedestal there could be a problem with the hit time. | Conclusion: if the local pedestal is very different from the default event pedestal there could be a problem with the hit time. | ||
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Revision as of 15:52, 9 May 2013
Blue straws have hits found, green were part of the track-fitting, pink and lime green have a zero-crossing within 40ns of the hit time. The hit for ch 38 looks ok, conclude that fitted track is ok and ch42 & 43 are masked by noise.
What went wrong with ch53? At first glance it looks like the hit signal arrives in sample 119 which is indeed what the tracking software decided. However the fitted track implies that the hit signal should have arrived in sample 110 (similar time to channels 13 and 67). In ch53 the adc value went above the first threshold (161) in sample 113. This threshold was based on pedestal = 61 = the mean adc value in samples 0-99. A local pedestal was then calculated as the spot value approximately 3 samples before from the threshold crossing. This local pedestal was 118 (much higher than normal) and then the threshold crossing was re-found at sample 119. The local pedestal was unusually high because the upward slope of the adc value was unusually small, presumably due to a large noise fluctuation lying beneath the hit signal.
Conclusion: if the local pedestal is very different from the default event pedestal there could be a problem with the hit time.