[Halld-cal] Hot BCAL channels

beattite beattite at uregina.ca
Fri Mar 20 16:56:24 EDT 2015


Hello.

I was trying to look into the effects of a few of the BCAL TDC scalars 
giving much higher event rates (up to 20x higher) than the average [see 
https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3327357].  The initial idea was to check 
out things like the pedestal and pulse integrals for these channels to 
confirm that we see something like this increased rate in the ADCs as 
well.

I looked at a run from the day after the logbook entry was posted 
(Run002649) first.  Looking through the pedestal histograms for each 
channel, I don't see the three 'hot' channels in terms of number of 
pedestal events.

I also looked at the DAQTreeBCAL plugin output to look at the number of 
events recorded for each channel by BCALDigiHit.  Again, I don't see any 
high-event channels.  We were going to look at the pulse integral 
distributions to see if they showed something interesting, and we also 
wanted to look at the raw waveforms from some Mode 8 data.

Is there a plugin somewhere that I could grab that would allow us to 
look at the waveforms easily?  As in, is there an easy way to visually 
inspect waveforms for specific channels?

Thanks.


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