FDC Backgrounds
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Detector Configuration
- Double-Hit Resolution: 250 ns
- Threshold: 1 keV
- Strip Threshold: 5 mV
- Maximum Number of Hits: 100
- Dead Zone Radius: 3.5 cm
Items for Discussion
- Is the maximum number of hits coded into the simulation sufficient for the FDC? If it is applied at the event level, 100 hits is probably not enough.
The maximum of 100 hits you mention is per anode wire or per cathode strip, not for entire planes or packages. This is OK because more than 100 hits on a single wire or strip would make it unable to provide a reliable drift time. Hits beyond this limit per wire or strip do not produce an error in the simulation, they are simply dropped from the event record. [rtj]
- How relevant is the increased background as a function of downstream position of the package?
- Does this need to be considered when optimizing package placement?
- Do/Should the dead regions for each package vary in size depending on downstream location?
- Cathode strip readout energy looks to be incorrect?
That is because the units for the strips are in pC. This is different from the anode wire pulse heights (GeV energy deposition) and also cdc straw pulse heights (GeV deposition) because a detailed model is used to compute the sharing of charge across the strips that includes multi-Poisson fluctuations. The output record has now been changed to denote the strip pulse height by the variable "q" instead of "dE" to make this fact explicit. [rtj]
- Explore dependence of rate on dead zone size.