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  HEPHY logbook for testbeam at SPS June 2008, Page 2 of 4  Not logged in ELOG logo
New entries since:Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
Entry  Sun Jun 1 14:58:53 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ only, ped002, 10000, 01.06.2008 14:55:31, 01.06.2008 14:59:06 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008 - PEDESTAL
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=-7.5 mm
software trigger
no telescope

PEDESTAL with BEAM (10k events) @ LEFT
Entry  Sun Jun 1 15:02:51 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ only, ped003, 10000, 01.06.2008 15:00:54, 01.06.2008 15:04:14 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008 - PEDESTAL with beam
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=-2.75 mm
software trigger
no telescope

PEDESTAL WITH BEAM (10k) @ MID
Entry  Sun Jun 1 15:08:17 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ only (0-sup), run0003, 100000, 01.06.2008 15:05:51, 01.06.2008 15:33:58 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008 - HIT MODE
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=-2.75 mm
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 2 -a 12 (manually)
no telescope

This is MID position
APVDAQ runs in HIT MODE (=0-suppressed)
acquisition rate ~300 Hz during spill
Entry  Sun Jun 1 15:52:03 2008, Eudet Telescope, SiLC, Telescope Pedestal Run, run2738, 1247, 1.6.2008. 15:50, 1.6.2008. 15:58 
Telescope Pedestal Run
no DUTs!
no Beam!
Config File: test5boards.conf
Entry  Sun Jun 1 16:06:42 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (raw), run2741 - run2757, 22000, 01.06.2008 16:02:56, 01.06.2008 22:02:34 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=-2.75 mm
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: raw, new firmware

right from the start: no beam...
Entry  Sun Jun 1 17:01:12 2008, Thomas Bergauer, SiLC, path do data, , , ,  
The data of all runs are stored on eudetmac001.cern.ch:

APVDAQ: /Volumes/Data/eudet/APVDAQ/silc/data

Telescope data: /Volumes/Data/eudet/Data/testing

all data will be saved to an external Firewire disk (Vienna Backup) and to CASTOR
Entry  Sun Jun 1 18:23:38 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, Very simple tracking, run2719, 100000, ,  silc_verysimple_res_2REF4.pngsilc_verysimple_res_012REF4567.png
Very simple alignment (manual linear x direction shifting only, no rotation, assuming equal z spacing) and tracking.
Reference plane = Module 3 (~center)
Deviation calculated from track prediction using the other layers.
Simple Center-of-gravity algorithm (as of APVDAQ_Analysis), no eta applied.
Using only events which have exactly 1 hit per plane (~80% of all events).

Results: 
 Residual RMS = 4.99 um (REFERENCE against neighbor layers 2+4 only)
 Residual RMS = 6.35 um (REFERENCE against all 7 other layers) -> needs more sophisticated alignment
Entry  Sun Jun 1 20:13:37 2008, Eudet Telescope, SiLC, BZIP2 compressed APVDAQ data, , , ,  
Processed APVDAQ data_cluster - in tar.bzip2 format:

- on machine: eudetmac001.cern.ch
- in directory: /Volumes/Data/eudet/APVDAQ/silc/data_bz2
- size reduction by factor 6
- in order to extract files, write: tar -xjf name.tar.bz2

Zbynek
Entry  Sun Jun 1 23:20:10 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ only, ped004, 10000, 01.06.2008 23:16:52, 01.06.2008 23:19:59 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008 - PEDESTAL with beam
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=+2 mm
software trigger
no telescope

this is RIGHT position
Entry  Sun Jun 1 23:23:16 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ only (0-sup), run0004, 100000, 01.06.2008 23:21:12, 01.06.2008 23:41:09 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008 - HIT MODE
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=+2 mm
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 2 -a 12 (manually)
no telescope

This is RIGHT position
APVDAQ runs in HIT MODE (=0-suppressed)
acquisition rate ~430 Hz during spill (TLU says ~86 Hz)
Entry  Sun Jun 1 23:36:21 2008, Christian Irmler, SiLC, HowTo analyse data, , , ,  analysis_howto.jpg
The analysis consists of two stages:
  • The first is zero supression an cluster finding done with "apvdaq_analysis_fadc" (Labwindows/CVI application)
  • The second stage is hit time reconstruction done with ROOT. (hitfit)
Both are installed on EUDETMAC.

apvdaq_analysis_fadc:
  • start apvdaq_analysis_fadc within the virtal Windows XP machine (parallels).
  • select a runfile, e.g. run0001.dat
  • select a propper calibration file, default is "cal002.out"
  • select pedestal correction file, default is "pedcorr001.ped"
  • enable "generate hit file and save results"
  • click "Start"

  • The result of the analyis is a file containing all hits above threshold, the filename is "xxxxxxx_cluster.hit", where xxxxxxx is the run name
  • The data structure of the file is described at http://elog.hephy.at/testbeam-SPS08/04
  • The file is located in the same folder as the raw data file (= data)


hitfit:
  • Once apvdaq_analysis_fadc is finished, start a console window and change into the directory /Volumes/Data/eudet/APVDAQ
  • execute ./hitfitrun nnnn, where nnnn is the run number

  • results: file with fitted hits (data structure see http://elog.hephy.at/testbeam-SPS08/04) as well as several plots.
  • file name: xxxxxxx_cluster.hit.fit, the file is located in the subdirectory output.
Entry  Sun Jun 1 23:46:33 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (raw), run2758 - run2783, 34873, 01.06.2008 23:44:57, 02.06.2008 10:08:46 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
8 modules, HV=100V, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor stage :=+2.0 mm
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: raw, new firmware

last raw run in RIGHT position
Entry  Mon Jun 2 13:19:10 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2787, 30000, 02.06.2008 13:15:04, 02.06.2008 14:27:57 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=100V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12


Reference run with nominal HV after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 14:32:40 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2788, 10000, 02.06.2008 14:31:15, 02.06.2008 14:51:55 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=10V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 14:55:38 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2789, 10000, 02.06.2008 14:54:33, 02.06.2008 15:19:12 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=20V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 15:21:53 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2790, 10000, 02.06.2008 15:20:44, 02.06.2008 15:38:04 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=30V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 15:41:20 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2791, 10000, 02.06.2008 15:40:20, 02.06.2008 15:58:16 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=40V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 16:01:10 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2792, 4536, 02.06.2008 16:00:09, 02.06.2008 16:19:42 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=50V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware

stopped after beam problem


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 21:37:10 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2821, 10000, 02.06.2008 21:32:57, 02.06.2008 21:51:55 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=50V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware

re-try after several hours of beam down


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
Entry  Mon Jun 2 21:54:34 2008, Markus Friedl, SiLC, APVDAQ + telescope (0-sup) *** HV-scan ***, run2822, 10000, 02.06.2008 21:53:37, 02.06.2008 22:10:53 
SiLC beam test - CERN SPS June 2008
HV scan,  HV=60V
8 modules, modules rearranged, 40MHz, 6 samples, hor position centered
trigger: 9 mm opening, TLUControl.exe -d 10 -a 12
telescope: 0sup., new firmware


HV scan after re-arranging the modules:

               JURA
          | | |
          | | | | |
beam ---->| | | | | | | |
                | | | | |
                    | | |
          0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
               SALEVE
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