Topological GMT triggers for cosmics
Updated on Mon, 2019-12-09 11:37. Originally created by genevb on 2019-12-03 15:40.
With some help from Shuai, I got a map of the MTD detetor physical locations to the 4 QT boards, which I assume are the 4 MTD signals you can use in the trigger. It's not strictly mapped to quadrants in phi (there is overlap), but it is roughly:
Since the GMT modules are at 2 o'clock and 5 o'clock, the optimal triggers (given the rather broad MTD trigger patches available) would be:
(Note: the images [click on each for a larger version] show the topologies in azimuth [ignoring z], with red arcs for the trigger elements and blue boxes for the viable GMT module intersections,)
The only MTD trigger pairing not used is MT002 && MT003, as that has no acceptance intersecting a GMT module.
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On 2019-11-26, Eleanor wrote:
Then, on 2019-12-03, she wrote:
I will try to look at these runs.
-Gene
- MT001 spans 11 o'clock to 3 o'clock
- MT002 spans 9:30 o'clock to 1:30 o'clock
- MT003 spans 5:30 o'clock to 9:30 o'clock
- MT004 spans 3:30 o'clock to 7:30 o'clock
Since the GMT modules are at 2 o'clock and 5 o'clock, the optimal triggers (given the rather broad MTD trigger patches available) would be:
(Note: the images [click on each for a larger version] show the topologies in azimuth [ignoring z], with red arcs for the trigger elements and blue boxes for the viable GMT module intersections,)
- Trigger 1:
- MT001 && MT003 && (TOF centered at 4 o'clock || TOF centered at 6 o'clock || TOF centered at 8 o'clock || TOF centered at 10 o'clock)
- Trigger 2:
- MT001 && MT002 && TOF centered at 10 o'clock
- Trigger 3:
- MT002 && MT004 && (TOF centered at 10 o'clock || TOF centered at 12 o'clock)
- Trigger 4:
- MT001 && MT004 && (TOF centered at 12 o'clock || TOF centered at 2 o'clock)
- Trigger 5:
- MT003 && MT004 && TOF centered at 8 o'clock
The only MTD trigger pairing not used is MT002 && MT003, as that has no acceptance intersecting a GMT module.
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On 2019-11-26, Eleanor wrote:
The GMT triggers that we talked about last Run have finally been coded and are available for testing. You gave me 5 separate trigger definitions. I did not have 5 unused bits available in the TCU so what I have done is combine all of these bits into 1 (OR), with a register that lets you turn each of the 5 components on or off. Also as you know the 5 triggers involve combining a lot of different bits from MTD and TOF, and things will only work right if I got all the mapping correct. Sometime after Thanksgiving Jack will put these algorithms into the Trigger Tier1 file and then they can actually be tested. When you are doing those tests I would STRONGLY recommend that you start out by taking 5 separate runs and only turn on 1 of the 5 components each time. It should then be possible to work out a) if I coded it correctly as well as b) if it actually works in real life.
Then, on 2019-12-03, she wrote:
Many thanks to Geary and Hank for taking the test runs yesterday. There are a total of 8 runs listed in the RunLog browser that are all successful, use the new GMT logic, include a GMT trigger, readout all of MTD, TOF, TPC and GMT as well as all the trigger electronics and have the magnet turned off. All of these runs were taken with the CosmicLocalClock_GMT configuration. The runs each have a different value for the GMT_onoff register, so each run has a different GMT trigger component turned on: Run 20336046 has GMT_onoff = 1 Runs 49 and 50 have GMT_onoff = 2 Runs 51 and 52 have GMT_onoff = 4 Run 53 has GMT_onoff = 8 Runs 55 and 57 have GMT_onoff = 16 Run 58 has GMT_onoff = 31. The detectors listed on the RunLog browser page only show daq and trg (i.e. the TPC, and GMT were not readout). However when I dig into the database the component tree shows that the CPU nodes for GMT, TPC, etc... were in the Run. So I am not sure what happened there and whether or not that run will be any use to you.
I will try to look at these runs.
-Gene
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