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Run 208:  
 
Run 208:  
  
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Increased Gate width from 200 ns to 800 ns after realizing that the drift chamber pulses could be that wide.  I also removed the 100 ns decay line on sense wire #4 of both chambers.  The PMT pulses still have a 100 ns delay line in.
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Increased Gate width from 200 ns to 1000 ns after realizing that the drift chamber pulses could be that wide.  I also removed the 100 ns decay line on sense wire #4 of both chambers.  The PMT pulses still have a 100 ns delay line in.
  
  
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I saw the ADC peak move up from channel 200 to channel 500 after increasing the gate width.
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I saw the ADC peak move up from channel 160 to channel 650 after increasing the gate width.  Increase gate width by a factor of 5 and the peak moved up by about a factor of 4.
  
 
[[Image:CosmicCoincidence_r208.jpg |200px]]
 
[[Image:CosmicCoincidence_r208.jpg |200px]]
  
  
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Metalica saw 922 cosmic events while Plastica recorded 927 out of the 1361 cosmic events triggered by the scintillator paddles.  Assuming <math>\sqrt{N}</math> counting statistics, I would conclude that the efficiency of Metalica is <math>(68 \pm 4)\%</math>  and <math>(68 \pm 4)\%</math> for Plastica when the scintillator paddle is 0.5 cm from the endplate.
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Metalica saw 922 cosmic events while Plastica recorded 927 out of the 1361 cosmic events triggered by the scintillator paddles.  Assuming <math>\sqrt{N}</math> counting statistics, I would conclude that the efficiency of Metalica is <math>(68 \pm 4)\%</math>  and <math>(68 \pm 4)\%</math> for Plastica when the scintillator paddle is 0.5 cm from the endplate.  The efficiencies go up to 80% if I include ADC overflow events.
  
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Are the ADC overflow events the result of an ionization event or just large ground line voltage excursions (noise) which were observed on the scope.  We couldn't set a threshold on such large noise pulses without blocking the actual drift chamber signal.  A correlation plot between the ADC overflow event in the PMTs -vs- the drift chambers showed that only a few (1/1000) events in which both the PMT and the Drift chamber had an ADC overflow.
  
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==12/28/07==
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==12/30/07==
  
 
Run 209:  
 
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| Wire ||  Volts || current (<math>\mu</math>A)
 
| Wire ||  Volts || current (<math>\mu</math>A)
 
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|Sense ||  1550 ||  
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|Sense ||  1550 || 94
 
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|-
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|Field ||  -825 ||  
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|Field ||  -825 || 93
 
|-
 
|-
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|Guard ||  825 ||  
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|Guard ||  825 || 0
 
|}
 
|}
  
  
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Top PMT is at -962 Volts and the Bottom PMT is at -1036 Volts.
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'''The GAS bottle is geting low!'''
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It's on order.  The shipment should arrive on Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008.  -PLC
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[[Image:CosmicCoincidence_r209.jpg |200px]]
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Looks like the increase in DC voltage of 50 Volts moved the Peak Mean from 500 to 600 channels.
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==12/31/07==
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We have a new bottle of Gas thanks to Dr. Cole's transport service.
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I believe there were 2 problems with the above cosmic runs. 
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#The first was that our top scintillator paddle was too big.  Two scintillator paddles of the same size (3" x 20" x 1/2") were used at first.  The Top paddle was placed such that only 4cm were covering the endplat of the chamber known as Metalica.  The Bottom scintillator was placed on edge ( cosmic rays traveling through both drift chambers would pass through 3" of scintillator) and "perpendicular" to the top scinitllator. 
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#I believe the second problem was running the drift chamber at too high of a voltage.  At 1500 Volts we would see signals on the scope like the one below when using the 90/10 AR/CO2 mixture.  Using the 75/25 gas mixture would allow us to increase the HV to 1600 Volts before seeing similar signals.  Perhaps there is an upper limit in voltage where the quenching gas is less effective causing such signals.
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[[Image:MiniPrototype_Gain2High_90-10Mix_12-28-07.jpg | 400 px]]
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For Run 210, we replaced the top scintillator with a paddle that is 1" x 1.5" x 0.5".  The 90/10 AR/CO2 mix was used with the following voltages:
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{| border="1"  |cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0
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|colspan= "3" | HV settings
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|-
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| Wire ||  Volts || current (<math>\mu</math>A)
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|-
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|Sense ||  1425 || -
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|-
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|Field ||  -725 || -
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|-
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|Guard ||  725 || -
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|}
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The power supply was unable to measure the current draw by the chambers.
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'''No more ADC overflows were observed.'''
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The following cut was used to define a cosmic Coincidence event with the PMTs:
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ADC8>100 && ADC9>100 && abs(ADC9-ADC8)<500
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The cut
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ADCx > 100
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was added to the above cuts to select signals in each drift chamber separately.
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[[Image:CosmicCoincidence_r210.jpg | 200px]]
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Metalica saw 92 (<math>78 \pm 10 %</math>) of the 118 PMT cosmic events and Plastica saw 94 (<math>80 \pm 10 %</math>) when cosmics rays hit sense wire #4, 5mm from the endplate.
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[[Image:r210_Cor1.jpg | 200 px]]
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==4/21/08==
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{| border="1"  |cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0
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|colspan= "3" | HV settings
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|-
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| Wire ||  Volts
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|-
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|Sense ||  1500
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|-
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|Field ||  -750 
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|-
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|Guard ||  750
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|}
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===Metalica===
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[[Image:metalica_1.png|200px]][[Image:metalica_2.png|200px]][[Image:metalica_3.png|200px]][[Image:metalica_4.png|200px]]<br>
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[[Image:metalica_5.png|200px]][[Image:metalica_6.png|200px]][[Image:metalica_7.png|200px]]
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===Plastica===
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[[Image:plastica_1.png|200px]][[Image:plastica_2.png|200px]][[Image:plastica_3.png|200px]][[Image:plastica_4.png|200px]]<br>
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[[Image:plastica_5.png|200px]][[Image:plastica_6.png|200px]][[Image:plastica_7.png|200px]]
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==4/23/08==
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===Cosmic Coincidence Events===
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{| border="1"  |cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0
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|colspan= "3" | HV settings
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|-
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| Wire ||  Volts
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|-
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|Sense ||  1500
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|-
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|Field ||  -750 
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|-
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|Guard ||  750
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|}<br>
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The voltage on PreAmp was 5.6 V.<br>
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====Wire_1====
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[[Image:metalica1_plastica2_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica1_plastica2_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica1_plastica2_HVon_1500V_2.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica1_plastica2_HVon_1500V_3.png|200px]]<br>
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====Wire_2====
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[[Image:metalica3_plastica4_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica3_plastica4_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]<br>
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====Wire_3====
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[[Image:metalica5_plastica6_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica5_plastica6_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica5_plastica6_HVon_1500V_2.png|200px]]<br>
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====Wire_4====
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[[Image:metalica7_plastica8_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica7_plastica8_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica7_plastica8_HVon_1500V_2.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica7_plastica8_HVon_1500V_3.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica7_plastica8_HVon_1500V_4.png|200px]]<br>
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====Wire_6====
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[[Image:metalica11_plastica12_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica11_plastica12_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica11_plastica12_HVon_1500V_2.png|200px]]<br>
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====Wire_7====
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[[Image:metalica13_plastica14_HVon_1500V.png|200px]]
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[[Image:metalica13_plastica14_HVon_1500V_1.png|200px]]<br>
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Wire_5 on Plastika is broken.<br>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 04:48, 1 May 2008

Cosmic Coincidences

setup

Setup a cosmic coincidence experiment with two crossed scintillators that have the proto-type drift chambers sandwhiched between them.

Built 4 100 ns long delay cables. 2 for the PMTs and one for sense wire 7 on each of the drift chambers.


The top PMT is in channel 7 of the QDC and channel 16 of the scaler.

The Bottom PMT is on channel 8 of the QDC and channel 7 of the scaler.

Coincidence counts are recorded in channel 2 of the scaler.

Runs

Drift Chamber is off

Run 182: Ran with coincidence module in "OR" mode so if either paddle triggered the ADC was read out

Run 183: Switched coincidence module to "AND" mode and ran overnight.

12/23/07

Drift Chamber turned on with 90/10 ArCO2 and the voltages below

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1500 19
Field -800 19
Guard 800 0

Run 204: Scope was plugged into DC output (split signal)

12/24/07

Run 206: Unplugged scope and started this run


Drift Chamber turned on with 90/10 ArCO2 and the voltages below

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1500 19
Field -800 19
Guard 800 0


Run206 12-25-07.jpg

I had a bad ribbon cable on plastica. Ignore the results for Plastica. It was just a good pedestal measurement.


It looks like Metalica saw 2/3 of the cosmics seen by the Scintilaltors.

12/27/07

Run 207:

Scope picture of a Cosmic Coincidence event triggered by and AND between the top and bottom scintillator.

CosmicCoincidence 12-27-07 MetalicaCh1.jpg

Drift Chamber turned on with 90/10 ArCO2 and the voltages below

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1500
Field -800
Guard 800

CosmicCoincidence r207.jpg


Metalica saw 488 cosmic events while Plastica recorded 494 out of the 739 cosmic events triggered by the scintillator paddles. Assuming [math]\sqrt{N}[/math] counting statistics, I would conclude that the efficiency of Metalica is [math](66 \pm 4)\%[/math] and [math](67 \pm 4)\%[/math] for Plastica when the scintillator paddle is 0.5 cm from the endplate.

12/28/07

Run 208:

Increased Gate width from 200 ns to 1000 ns after realizing that the drift chamber pulses could be that wide. I also removed the 100 ns decay line on sense wire #4 of both chambers. The PMT pulses still have a 100 ns delay line in.


Drift Chamber turned on with 90/10 ArCO2 and the voltages below

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1500
Field -800
Guard 800


I saw the ADC peak move up from channel 160 to channel 650 after increasing the gate width. Increase gate width by a factor of 5 and the peak moved up by about a factor of 4.

CosmicCoincidence r208.jpg


Metalica saw 922 cosmic events while Plastica recorded 927 out of the 1361 cosmic events triggered by the scintillator paddles. Assuming [math]\sqrt{N}[/math] counting statistics, I would conclude that the efficiency of Metalica is [math](68 \pm 4)\%[/math] and [math](68 \pm 4)\%[/math] for Plastica when the scintillator paddle is 0.5 cm from the endplate. The efficiencies go up to 80% if I include ADC overflow events.

Are the ADC overflow events the result of an ionization event or just large ground line voltage excursions (noise) which were observed on the scope. We couldn't set a threshold on such large noise pulses without blocking the actual drift chamber signal. A correlation plot between the ADC overflow event in the PMTs -vs- the drift chambers showed that only a few (1/1000) events in which both the PMT and the Drift chamber had an ADC overflow.

12/30/07

Run 209:

I increase the HV on both Drift chamber by 50 Volts (25 Volts on guard and Field wires).

Drift Chamber turned on with 90/10 ArCO2 and the voltages below

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1550 94
Field -825 93
Guard 825 0


Top PMT is at -962 Volts and the Bottom PMT is at -1036 Volts. The GAS bottle is geting low!

It's on order. The shipment should arrive on Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008. -PLC


CosmicCoincidence r209.jpg


Looks like the increase in DC voltage of 50 Volts moved the Peak Mean from 500 to 600 channels.

12/31/07

We have a new bottle of Gas thanks to Dr. Cole's transport service.

I believe there were 2 problems with the above cosmic runs.

  1. The first was that our top scintillator paddle was too big. Two scintillator paddles of the same size (3" x 20" x 1/2") were used at first. The Top paddle was placed such that only 4cm were covering the endplat of the chamber known as Metalica. The Bottom scintillator was placed on edge ( cosmic rays traveling through both drift chambers would pass through 3" of scintillator) and "perpendicular" to the top scinitllator.
  2. I believe the second problem was running the drift chamber at too high of a voltage. At 1500 Volts we would see signals on the scope like the one below when using the 90/10 AR/CO2 mixture. Using the 75/25 gas mixture would allow us to increase the HV to 1600 Volts before seeing similar signals. Perhaps there is an upper limit in voltage where the quenching gas is less effective causing such signals.

MiniPrototype Gain2High 90-10Mix 12-28-07.jpg

For Run 210, we replaced the top scintillator with a paddle that is 1" x 1.5" x 0.5". The 90/10 AR/CO2 mix was used with the following voltages:

HV settings
Wire Volts current ([math]\mu[/math]A)
Sense 1425 -
Field -725 -
Guard 725 -

The power supply was unable to measure the current draw by the chambers.


No more ADC overflows were observed.

The following cut was used to define a cosmic Coincidence event with the PMTs: 

ADC8>100 && ADC9>100 && abs(ADC9-ADC8)<500

The cut 

ADCx > 100

was added to the above cuts to select signals in each drift chamber separately.

CosmicCoincidence r210.jpg

Metalica saw 92 ([math]78 \pm 10 %[/math]) of the 118 PMT cosmic events and Plastica saw 94 ([math]80 \pm 10 %[/math]) when cosmics rays hit sense wire #4, 5mm from the endplate.

R210 Cor1.jpg


4/21/08

HV settings
Wire Volts
Sense 1500
Field -750
Guard 750

Metalica

Metalica 1.pngMetalica 2.pngMetalica 3.pngMetalica 4.png
Metalica 5.pngMetalica 6.pngMetalica 7.png

Plastica

Plastica 1.pngPlastica 2.pngPlastica 3.pngPlastica 4.png
Plastica 5.pngPlastica 6.pngPlastica 7.png

4/23/08

Cosmic Coincidence Events

HV settings
Wire Volts
Sense 1500
Field -750
Guard 750


The voltage on PreAmp was 5.6 V.

Wire_1

Metalica1 plastica2 HVon 1500V.png Metalica1 plastica2 HVon 1500V 1.png Metalica1 plastica2 HVon 1500V 2.png Metalica1 plastica2 HVon 1500V 3.png

Wire_2

Metalica3 plastica4 HVon 1500V.png Metalica3 plastica4 HVon 1500V 1.png

Wire_3

Metalica5 plastica6 HVon 1500V.png Metalica5 plastica6 HVon 1500V 1.png Metalica5 plastica6 HVon 1500V 2.png

Wire_4

Metalica7 plastica8 HVon 1500V.png Metalica7 plastica8 HVon 1500V 1.png Metalica7 plastica8 HVon 1500V 2.png Metalica7 plastica8 HVon 1500V 3.png Metalica7 plastica8 HVon 1500V 4.png

Wire_6

Metalica11 plastica12 HVon 1500V.png Metalica11 plastica12 HVon 1500V 1.png Metalica11 plastica12 HVon 1500V 2.png

Wire_7

Metalica13 plastica14 HVon 1500V.png Metalica13 plastica14 HVon 1500V 1.png


Wire_5 on Plastika is broken.

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