Results of RS bulk trimming

Special runs

Special set of runs were taken before trim on Sep 14, 2001 and after trim on Sep 21, 2001.

Software and results location

Currently all the software is located in ~e949/tr2/rstime/kofia3/rs_trim
(Directory tree can be viewed from any bnlkuXX machines only)

Step B. Pulser TDC calibration

Pulser study showed that TDC calibration did not changed befween data taking before trim and after trim ( PS )

Only channel 68 cahnged, which might be due to the fact that it looked weird in before trim data. Also data sets extra and after agree with each other qite well. PS This plots also shows that single hit measurement resolution is about 0.75 ns, which is slightly bigger than 2ns/sqrt(12)=0.58, but close enough. Two measurements agree with each other to astonishing precision of 0.068 ns, which is close to theoretically possible limit of 0.75/sqrt(400)=0.37 for about 400 events in each measurement point (before_trim had 10000 and after_trim had 400 pulses per point).

So ideally one would hope that 2 results can be reproduced with less than 0.1ns resolution. But of course in kbeam measurements there are many more factors that degrade resolution, as compared to simple pulser setup.


Step C. MT2 arrival time in Range Card

MT2 signals before trim and after trim have about the same spread. Though signals after trim seems to arrive a little closer to each other. ( PS ) It seems that three channels have 1ns difference with their values before trim.

Step X.

Quick summary of result is here ( PS ) Notation:
Black before trim
Red after trim
Blue expected after trim

Step D.

Quick summary of result is here ( PS ) Notation:
Black before trim
Red after trim
Blue expected after trim

.... Under construnction ....


Sasha Kushnirenko
Last modified: Wed Oct 3 22:29:32 EDT 2001