Re: [BLAST_SHIFTS] tdc timing

From: Peter Karpius (karpiusp@einstein.unh.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 20:28:59 EST


Good work Adrian, you are saving me!

                                Thanks,
                                Pete

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Adrian T Sindile wrote:

> Hi, guys!
> Preliminary conclusions (and preliminary good news): only between aprox.
> runs 4940 (when the TOF window was adjusted on February 20th) and 5170 was
> timing messed up (nothing to do with the TOFs, though, it was meant to
> clean up accidentals by people then). It looks like it was fixed after
> that, up to run 5350 I did not see anything wrong (except some broken
> fibers).
>
> I will let you know if I see other periods with problems.
>
> Adrian
>
> PS: Pete, of course you will see a time shift, compared to periods before
> run 4940... (see Karen's elog message from 02/24/2004). For me, bad timing
> is only when the flasher TDC keeps jumping from one run to the next...
>
> -------------------------------
> Adrian Sindile
> Research Assistant
> Nuclear Physics Group
> University of New Hampshire
> phone: (603)862-1691
> FAX: (603)862-2998
> email: asindile@alberti.unh.edu
> http://einstein.unh.edu/~adrian/
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, vitaliy ziskin wrote:
>
> > This is what I saw also and asked you to check. This is worrysome,
> > since we rely heavily on stable timing. Can we do these checks daily?
> >
> > Vitaliy
> > Peter Karpius wrote:
> >
> > >With Adrian's database record of timing vs. run number I have modified
> > >the raw tof tdc macro to plot flasher tdc and print an error message
> > >"CHECK TIMING" if the flasher peak is more than 40 channels (2ns) off of
> > >the mark (ch=1000). 2ns is the resolution of our programmable delays.
> > >See attached gif. This macro runs from raw data. It is:
> > >
> > >/home/daq/blast/pro2004/analysis/macros/Raw/raw_checktiming.C
> > >
> > > After doing some preliminary runs it looks like there
> > >actually has been a timing shift (see attached gif for run 5415 LTOP) I
> > >need to look at this before I conclude anything-
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > >On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Adrian T Sindile wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi, Vitaliy!
> > >>I have been dumping those numbers into the database.
> > >>If I see any problem I will let you know.
> > >>
> > >>Adrian
> > >>
> > >>-------------------------------
> > >>Adrian Sindile
> > >>Research Assistant
> > >>Nuclear Physics Group
> > >>University of New Hampshire
> > >>phone: (603)862-1691
> > >>FAX: (603)862-2998
> > >>email: asindile@alberti.unh.edu
> > >>http://einstein.unh.edu/~adrian/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, vitaliy ziskin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Is anyone monitoring tdc positions of a flasher in the tofs as a
> > >>>function of run numbers. It is very important for the neutron data.
> > >>>Please, someone who is in charge of tofs, look at it and let me know.
> > >>>
> > >>> Chees,
> > >>>Vitaliy
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >
> > >----------------------------------------------
> > >Pete Karpius
> > >Graduate Research Assistant
> > >Nuclear Physics Group
> > >University of New Hampshire
> > >phone: (603)862-1220
> > >FAX: (603)862-2998
> > >email: karpiusp@einstein.unh.edu
> > >http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pkarpius/homepage.htm
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
>

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Pete Karpius
Graduate Research Assistant
Nuclear Physics Group
University of New Hampshire
phone: (603)862-1220
FAX: (603)862-2998
email: karpiusp@einstein.unh.edu
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~pkarpius/homepage.htm
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