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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:zisis@uregina.ca">Zisis Papandreou</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">2014-01-29 9:14 AM</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:elton@jlab.org">Elton Smith</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:s-dobbs@northwestern.edu">Sean Dobbs</A>; <A href="mailto:yqiang@jlab.org">Yi Qiang</A>; <A href="mailto:halld-cal@jlab.org">Hall-D Calorimetry</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Re: comments to BCAL calibration</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV></div><br><div>Hi Elton:<div><br></div><div>thanks for your comments. They were helpful to me to know what some of the plans for storage (e.g. EPICs) are. I can't foresee all possible eventualities in the analysis, but at least in the early stages we would want to have access to this info for cross checks and beyond. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's discuss it later this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Zisis...</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Elton Smith <<a href="mailto:elton@jlab.org">elton@jlab.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Zisis,<br><br>Here are some belated comments to your document GlueX-doc-2379. I notice I made my comments on the version on Dec 17 and there is an updated version. In a cursory glance I did not the changes, but I could be providing redundant suggestions.<br><br><br>General: It is good to have the GlueX-doc number at the top. My hard copy lacked this and it took me a while to find where I got the document.<br><br>Th first table (conditions parameters) contains very similar information to what may be included in online data bases. These are still under discussion, so the two need to be designed together so that they complement each other and minimize duplication. For example, the SiPM bias voltages will be recorded and monitored by EPICS and I don't know how this information will be needed beyond that.<br><br>LED_cntl_clock, LED_cntl_width, LED_bias<br>There are a total of 32 independent pulsers (16 upstream, 16 downstream). Each of 4 pulses are duplicated 12 times and delivered to quadrants, up or down.<br>I assume the clock is the rate at which the pulser is pulsed.<br><br>These next two are clearly DAQ settings and would be part of the configuration files<br>ADC_threshold. Is this the same as the pedestal subtracted for the trigger? Is it a sparcification threshold?<br>TDC_threshold. Is this the discriminator threshold?<br><br>The next will be recorded and monitored by EPICs<br>SPM_bias_hv<br>SPM_bias_lv. There are a total of 48 independent channels (24 +5V, 24 -5V). Each channel serves 4 readout assemblies on one side.<br>SPM_crate<br>N2_flow. At the moment we do not monitor the N2 flow, they are visual flow meters. However, we do monitor temp and humidity inside the readout assemblies<br><br>This information should be set in a configuration file<br>COOLING_temp - I assume this is the set point for the chiller? This would be the temperature of the water in the cooling loop<br><br>The following information should be monitored and controlled from EPICS<br>SPM_temp - There is one RTD temperature probe on each cooling plate, i.e. 96.<br>Readout assembly temperature and humidity. There are 8 probes (4 upstream, 4 downstream) in the air (N2) volume of the readout assemblies. They measure temperature and humidity, so the dew point can be calculated.<br>HALLD_humidity - There is only discussion at the moment to add a probe to determine the general conditions of the hall.<br><br>Table 2 (Calibration constants)<br><br>I assume we need an offset and gain for each ADC channel is related to the ADC_...._position and width information. While I agree that there may be different methods of determining the gain (cosmics, pulser, physics, etc), I think we probably want to store somewhere the "best estimate" of the actual gain information for each ADC channel. The procedure for determining this value is yet to be determined and may use several of the inputs so far mentioned.<br><br>ADC_gain 1536 channels<br>ADC_offset: 1536 channels<br>ADC_time_offset: 1152 channels<br><br>For the ADC_physics<br>What is meant to the ADC_physics_position or TDC_physics_position, etc values? The intent is to use pi0 and eta production to extract the information. However, these will not yield a single peak, but rather pi0 peaks will be determined using combination of two showers (each shower with multiple ADC channel). From this a procedure will have to be developed to determine the gains of each channel.<br><br>For the TDC_physics_<br>What would be used for the source of this information?<br><br>Thanks, Elton.<br><br><br>-- <br>Elton Smith<br>Jefferson Lab MS 12H5<br>12000 Jefferson Ave STE 16<br>Newport News, VA 23606<br>(757) 269-7625<br>(757) 269-6331 fax<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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