ADC calibration and studies

							    ADC Performance and
Calibration of MDT Chambers
             Zhen YAN (闫真)
             Boston University
             USTC 15.12.2012



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                               Outline
   Introduction of Monitored Drift Tube(MDT) System
       Naming convention
       Operation parameters
       TDC and ADC spectrum
       Boston University activity
   ADC performance
       Monitoring chamber ADC mean
       Color map of chamber ADC mean plotted as function of eta and phi
       Chamber ADC mean variation at time scale
   ADC calibration
       Raw tube ADC performance
       Normalized tube ADC performance
       Correction constants validation
   Dependence of ADC on impact parameter, distanceToReadout,
    temperature and momentum


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         Boston University Activity
   The BU/Harvard group led by Ahlen built the 80 MDT chambers
    for the Small Wheels (16 each of EIL 1-3, and EIS 1-2), and the 16
    EMS1 chambers for the Big Wheels, during the period 2000 to
    2004. The MDT-ASD is an octal CMOS ASIC circuit which was
    designed and constructed by the BU Electronics Design Facility
    (EDF) and Harvard.
   In each ASD channel, an ADC was used to measure the signal
    charge in a given time window (integration gate 18.5ns)
    following the initial threshold crossing. The signal charge is
    encoded into a pulse width using the dual-slope ”Wilkinson”
    technique with time unit 0.78 ns, the same as the TDC unit.



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Plot a) is the ADC spectrum of EIL1A01 for all tubes and events in one collision
run 182796 in May 2011. Plot b) shows the distribution of chamber ADC mean
values for 1170 MDT chambers for run 182796.
The normal range of chamber ADC mean is 125 to 145 ADC count for a 7TeV
collision run.




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   The red cell at the top-left of below plot indicates chamber EIL4C03 has an
    unusually high ADC mean value during cosmic commissioning in 2009. This
    was found to be due to a problem with the LV power supply cable.




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   The rms of chamber ADCmean values was calculated by using 20 collison runs
    listed in tag “2011 7TeV” taken from March 2011 to May 2011. The rms is less
    than 1 ADC count for most chambers, demonstrating very stable for the MDT
    system.




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    Raw tube ADC perfromance




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 Normalized tube ADC perfromance




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   A constant named cor tube[N] can be used to normalize tube ADC value. The
    definition of cor tube[N] is cor tube[N] = ChamberADCMean/TubeADCMean[N], then
    the NormalizedADC = cor tube[N]*rawADC. We have used 2010 and 2011 collision
    data to compare normalization constants over a one year time scale, using over
    270,000 tubes. Below plot shows these constants to be very stable.




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Dependence of ADC on impact parameter




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Dependence of ADC on distanceToReadout




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Dependence of ADC on temperature




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Dependence of ADC on momentum




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