[Xem2] calorimeter wiggles
Dave Gaskell
gaskelld at jlab.org
Wed Jul 5 15:50:54 EDT 2023
Hi all -
My memory was incorrect about the calorimeter wiggles. Dave Mack did
find/fix a "hardwired cut" issue, but it was in the time-of-flight
calibration, not the calorimeter.
However, Dave also looked at the calorimeter issue with Carlos Yero a
couple years ago (see these slides):
https://hallcweb.jlab.org/DocDB/0011/001122/003/HMS_CalWiggle_Studies_slides_Apr15.pdf
In summary, the FADC threshold of 10 mV is too high relative to the
calorimeter PMT gain, so low amplitude pulses that should be included in
the sum are dropped. The only way to fix this is to increase the PMT
gain, or decrease the FADC threshold.
At our momenta, it should not be a big effect. If we're concerned about
it, we could try to fit the wiggles and apply that as a correction to
the calibration.
Cheers,
Dave
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