GEM Cosmic V792 Measurements

11-07-08

The pulse coming from the strips is delayed and amplified using the Timing Filter Amplifier Model_474(X6). The amplified pulse is connected to the V792 QDC.
Run 550

Start Time: Nov 6 19:58:03; End Time: Nov 7 09:45:57

12-10-08

The signal below represents a measurement of the Trig out signal from a 10 cm x 10 cm ionization chamber with 3 GEM preamplifiers. The chamber gas a 90/10 % mixture of Arcon and CO2. The Drift HV was set to 3200 Volts and the GEM preamplifier HV distribution network was set to 2900 Volts. The V792 CAEN ADC channels have a gain of 100 fC/channel. The main signal peak appears at channel number 759 and represents an accumulation of [math]75.9 \pm 4[/math] pC of charge.

Electronics Settings:

TrigOut goes to Timing Filter Amplifier(Coarse Gain=X6, Fine GAin=7.5ns && Integrate=20ns) and after amplification to ADC
StripOut is used as a trigger and gate. The signal from the strip is amplified by the Timing Filter Amplifier (Coarse Gain=X20, Fine Gain=12.5ns && Integrate=500ns)
The Threshold on DIFF. CFD is set to 0.70 (ULD=9.9~10 && LLD=0.5)

12-10(11)-08

HV Settings: [math]V_{Drift}=3200[/math] Volts and [math]V_{GEM}=2900[/math] Volts.

Using again only TrigOut and the signal from the Strip.

Electronics Setup: done (might change CFD threshold)

12-11-08

HV Settings: [math]V_{Drift}=3200[/math] Volts and [math]V_{GEM}=2900[/math] Volts.
Gas type 90/10 ArCO2.

Electronics Setup

TrigOut and the stripsignal, both are used as a pulse and go to ADC.
The pulse from the Strips is used as a trigger and gate.

The pulse from the trigout is delayed, Amplified by the Timinig Filter Amplifier(Coarse_Gain=X20, Fine_Gain=8.5 && Integrate=20ns).
Signal from the Strips goes to the Timing Filter Amplifier(Coarse_Gain=X20, Fine_Gain=10.5 && Integrate=20ns). Amplified pulse is devided into two signals, One is sued as a trigger and gate and second as a pulse for ADC. The first one(gate && trigger) is amplified using the Timing Filter Amplifier(Coarse_Gain=X2, Fine_Gain=10 && Integrate=50ns) and used in DIFF. CFD for gate and trigger. Second output from the Amplified strips, goes to delay box(TENNELEC TC 215 DELAY AMPLIFIER) and putted to the ADC.

The results shown below are for different Diff. CFD values.

1). Threshold Values: Threshold=1.90, ULD=9.65 && LLD=2.10

Run Number is r613

Start time: Dec 11 16:31:42 End Time: Dec 11 17:32:23

2). Threshold Values: Threshold=3.10, ULD=9.65 && LLD=2.90

Run Number is r622

Start time: Dec 11 19:25:28 End Time: Dec 11 21:53:44

2). Threshold Values: Threshold=3.70, ULD=9.65 && LLD=3.50

Run Number is r624

Start time: Dec 11 21:58:37 End Time: Dec 12 12:19:53

The result shown below is reasonable. The charge that left the last GEM foil is greater than the charge collected by the strips.

12-12-08

Finding out what is gain for each channel using the Stanford pulse generator.

Setting:

Run Number: r634 && r635

Original pulse from stanford pulse generator goes to the ADC: r636 && r637

I used the attenuator for both channels and it was set to the same value: 12dB = 10.7918.

[math]X db = 20 log_{10}\frac{I_1}{I_2}[/math]

[math]\frac{I_1}{I_2} = 10^{12/20} = 3.98[/math]

Gain Calculation

Gain_for_Channel_1 = Gain_TrigOut = [math]\frac{175 \times 10.7918}{110} = 17.1688[/math]
Gain_for_Channel_5 = Gain_Strip = [math]\frac{650 \times 10.7918}{145} = 48.377[/math]

12-13-08

The Stanford Pulse Generator

Gas type ArCO2(90/10)

New measurements. Setting the gain for Strip pulse and TrigOut the same.

Below Channel 1 represents StripOut and Channel 2 trigOut.

Setting Gain the same using The Stanford Pulse Generator:

Run Number 650.dat

Run Number r651

Will increasing the Amplifier integration time result in one peak instead of 2?  Try it.
Not a good idea to increase Amplifier integration time, because it decreases amplitude of the 
pulse. That means I need to start everything all over again. But I guess I need to do that. 

The ADC integrates the pulse.  Give it a try unless you are now taking data with GEM.

Charge leaving last GEM foil divided by the charge that was collected by the Strips.

Is the below image really the GEM output or is it the pulse generator?

It is the GEm output Dr. Forest. Why are you asking?

The graph below appeared right after talking about using the pulse generator.  Lets reorganize
so data using pulse generator is in one section and data from GEM in a different section.

GEM Data

 Predict where the signal will appear in the ADC and what the width of the signal will be.
Take data if the pulses are sufficiently similar.  
You could try to gain match the amplifiers such that ADC1/ADC5 = 1.
After the ratio of the amplifier gains are measured you should measure the GEM detector 
output from cosmic rays again.

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