From: Frank Geurts (geurts_at_rice.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 22:52:03 EDT
new tofReader code can be found in
/afs/rhic/star/users/geurts/public/evp_reader/tofReader.C and .h ...
increased the ranges which were apparently hard coded. Not tested, but
changes a very transparent. Let me know in case of problems ...
-frank
W.J. Llope wrote:
> hi guys - i'm not sure we need to be bugging tonko about this...
>
> some quick comments below...
>
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Lijuan Ruan wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,Tonko
>> This afternoon Sergey and I try to fix the problem of tof online plot.
>>And we go to EVP_Reader/tofreader.h,In the structure of tof,we find the
>>element adc[48],tdc[48],a2d[32],sca[12].
>
>
> that's clearly out of date... now we have 132 ADC vales and 120 TDC
> values, plus the same number of A/D channels and scalers as before...
>
> the run-3 local daq manual is here:
> http://mac8.rice.edu/~TOF/TOFp/operations/manuals/local_daq_run3.html
>
> one of the links there is to the TOF raw data format.... go here:
> http://duvel.rice.edu/~geurts/star/tof_raw_data_format2.0.html
> does that help?
>
> clearly my remapping (to skip the dual-range 'second' ADC for the
> pVPD in the hit counters and collapse the adc and tdc indices to
> a single coherant index) won;t work if the datap structure doesn't
> contain all the data... sounds like progress... thanks...
>
>
>
>
>>And we do to the tofreader.C,we
>>find the same thing.That's adc loop goes to 48 and tdc loop goes to 48.
>>In the real data,we have 132 channel adc and 120 channel tdc,and a2d[32]
>>and sca[12],because we add 72 tofr channel.
>>
>>132 adc values are:
>> 0-40=tofp, 41=ramp, 42-47=pvpdLR, 48-53=empty,
>> 54-59=pvpdHR, then 60-131=tofr
>>120 tdc values are:
>> 0-40=tofp, 41=empty, 42-47=pvpd, 48-119=tofr
>>
>>Can you change 48 channel adc to 132 channel adc and
>>change 48 channel tdc to 120 channel tdc?
>>
>>
>>Thanka a lot!
>> Lijuan
>>
>>
>>>Hi, Sergey:
>>> Are you at BNL?
>>> Maybe Lijuan and you can sit down for a few minutes and test
>>>it.
>>>Thanks!
>>> Zhangbu
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: W.J. Llope
>>>To: Panitkin, Sergey; tofp_at_physics.rice.edu
>>>Sent: 2003-4-14 13:32
>>>Subject: Re: online monitor code for tof...
>>>
>>>
>>>hi sergey - the code that you had already (since mar 8) is
>>>indeed the current version AFAIK... but there's a problem -
>>>the hit patterns don't look like we expect based on our
>>>locally-recorded online data...
>>>i was just describing the changes i made to lijuan in case she
>>>could help fix what's wrong....
>>>
>>>i tried to test this as you suggested but i couldn't
>>>make much progress on that (just for technical reasons
>>>mostly related to the fact i was trying to work through
>>>the firewalls)... i think the actual problem is probably
>>>a v. simple one so i was hoping lijuan might be able to fix it
>>>since she's onsite and also already very familiar w/ what
>>>the raw data looks like......
>>>
>>>cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Bill,
>>>>
>>>>I'm confused. It looks like changes that you sent this morning were
>>>
>>>already
>>>
>>>>implemented on about March 8th? Just check, for example,
>>>>ListOfHistograms.txt in the operator account on evp.
>>>>I can't find any differences in the existing code and the one that
>>>
>>>you've
>>>
>>>>sent.
>>>>No "diff" though, just line by line "manual" comparison.
>>>>May be I'm missing something?
>>>>
>>>>Please help.
>>>>
>>>>Sergey
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "W.J. Llope" <llope_at_physics.rice.edu>
>>>>To: <tofp_at_physics.rice.edu>; "Sergey Panitkin" <panitkin_at_bnl.gov> Cc:
>>>>"Sergey Panitkin" <panitkin_at_bnl.gov>
>>>>Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:33 AM
>>>>Subject: online monitor code for tof...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At 9:23 PM -0400 4/12/03, Xu, Zhangbu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I will stay up tonight and if we are lucky, we may be able to
>>>>>get some test data for TOFr trigger.
>>>>> Bill:
>>>>> Has the online plot been fixed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>hi zhangbu and lijuan and sergey, i didn't have much success mostly
>>>
>>>because
>>>
>>>>i am offsite (long story, not interesting)... i think
>>>>lijuan or sergey could probably swoop in now and easily
>>>>fix this (5min?)... the changes i made were very simple.
>>>>i.e. extend hisogram limits from 41 to 120, and
>>>>fill these - that's about it.
>>>>i attached two files: ListOfHistograms.txt and eventLoop.cxx..
>>>>just edit and step through all the places you see 'wjl'...
>>>>
>>>>the ListOf... file makes the histogram definitions - note
>>>>two new 1D's were added. the new ones h69 and h70 are recycled
>>>>'rich' histograms, while the rest of the tof hists are
>>>>h82 to h87.
>>>>in the event loop all i added was an array to hold the
>>>>remapped tof adc data, then below i just remap and fill
>>>>4 histograms.
>>>>
>>>>now these look wierd (when compared to those from the localmon
>>>>data) when displayed, but i wasn't able to run the test file
>>>>sergey suggested to try to trrck down the problem. i suspect
>>>>that if you look at what's in the array 'datap' in
>>>>a few events the problem be easy to find....
>>>>
>>>>BTW Sergey - on the display pages, the hit patterns
>>>>(h82 & h69 for ADC, and h83 & h70 for TDC) need to be
>>>>drawn LogY....
>>>>
>>>>let me know what to do nxet.... thanks,
>>>>bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>> Zhangbu
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Christie, William
>>>>>To: starops-hn; starshiftleader-l
>>>>>Sent: 2003-4-12 18:31
>>>>>Subject: [starshiftleader-l] Brief Summary of Plan for Sunday morning
>>>>>Commissioning.
>>>>>
>>>>>Dear Sub System Managers, Shift Leaders, and others,
>>>>> I haven't had time to type in my notes from this mornings
>>>
>>>(Saturday)
>>>
>>>>>commissioning efforts. I'll try and get them out sometime this
>>>
>>>evening.
>>>
>>>>>Work was done on checking out some new Trigger system scaler routines,
>>>>>some of the timing effort for the Spin bits was done, extensive work
>>>
>>>was
>>>
>>>>>done on characterizing, understanding, and tuning of FPDE electronics
>>>>>and timing, and a chunk of FAST Detector only data was taken.
>>>>> With the FPDE now in much better shape, the primary task Sunday
>>>>>morning will be tuning of the FPDE. As the opportunity allows, we'll
>>>>>likely try and take some more FAST Detector only data to get some
>>>>>calibration data for the EEMC. Again, as opportunity allows, we'll
>>>
>>>also
>>>
>>>>>try and take a look at the TOF trigger, and if it works try and take a
>>>>>short data set (TPC included) so that TOF people can check that things
>>>>>look OK.
>>>>> Steady progress is being made to get STAR ready for the
>>>
>>>polarized
>>>
>>>> >physics run.
>>>>
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>
>>>> W.J. Llope, Ph.D. Res. Assoc. Professor
>>>> T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory phone: 713-348-4741
>>>> Rice University, MS-315 fax: 713-348-5215
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>>>>
>>>>--
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>> W.J. Llope, Ph.D.????????????????????? Res. Assoc. Professor
>>> T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory???????? phone: 713-348-4741
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