online and offline tof calibration tools for physics
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TOF Meeting, 9 December 2009, CERN Chiara Zampolli for the ALICE-TOF. ONLINE and offline TOF calibration tools for physics. Outline. The TOF Calibration Sources of uncertainty Operating status The online procedures The offline procedures. Sources of Uncertainties and Operating Status. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ONLINE AND OFFLINE TOFCALIBRATION TOOLS FOR PHYSICS
TOF Meeting, 9 December 2009, CERN
Chiara Zampolli for the ALICE-TOF
Outline
The TOF Calibration Sources of uncertainty Operating status The online procedures The offline procedures
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Sources of Uncertainties and Operating Status
Sources of Uncertainty
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1. TIME DELAYS:an equalization of the channels of the TDCs is necessary because of the delays introduced by the electronics (mainly cable lengths and pulse line lengths).
2. TIME SLEWING:time slewing is caused by the finite amount of charge necessary to trigger the discriminator charge fluctuations generate a time walk.
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Operating Status
Apart from correcting for the time delays and the time slewing effects, during reconstruction also the operating status of each channel has to be taken into account Front-End: off/on Noise: noisy/not-noisy Pulser: not-ok/ok
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TOF Online Calibration Procedure
TOF Online Calibration TOF online calibration procedure is aimed at
defining the status and at a first-order estimation of the delay in time measurement of each TOF channel.
TOF online calibration is performed on three different sources:
PHYSICS runs PULSER runs NOISE runs
with additional information concerning the Front-End:
every run Everything included in the ALICE online
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Procedures running in the DAQ
Procedure running in the DCS
Status
Status
Delay
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TOF Online Calibration - Delays Determine the relative delays for each TOF
channel using the tTOF-texp spectra• tTOF = time measured by
TOF (T0 subtracted!!)• texp = expected time of
flight, from TOF geometry, assuming β = 1 and a straight line trajectory
Sharp edge expected at the delay value from fastest particles (β ~ 1)
No delay, edge @ ~ 0
Delay defined using the mean <tTOF-texp> over ~ 320 ps (≈ 4 times σTOF) around the edge <tTOF-texp> 8
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Dependence on the Number of Entries/Channel
Fit to 1/N
Uncertainty (RMS) on the time edge vs Number of Entries/Channel
Mean Value of the Time Edge vs Number of Entries/Channel (delay=0). Stable within 10 ps.
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Dependence on the Number of Events
pp Runs, assuming 10 hits on TOF/MB event
4 hours fill, L2 rate = 100 Hz
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TOF Offline Calibration Procedure
Offline Calibration Strategy An algorithm with the aim to calibrate the measured
times taking into account at the same time the time slewing effect and the delays introduced by electronics (refined calibration) has been developed.
To unfold the time spread due to the momentum spectra, to the particle types, and to the different track length, the algorithm is based on the comparison between the times of the reconstructed tracks (from track length and momentum measurements) and the measured times (tEXP-tTOF).
The identity of the particle (needed to choose the proper tEXP) is determined via a combinatorial algorithm. 9th December 2009Chiara Zampolli 12
Offline Calibration Procedure Quality cut selection applied on the available
tracks 5th order polynomial fitting of the (texp – tTOF)
vs ToT distributions for the selected tracks channel by channel;
Setting of the 6 parameters just obtained as the calibration parameters
CALIBRATION
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Results from MC
σa = 92.7 ps σb = 111.4 ps
σc = 93.2 ps
Adding time slewing and delays
calibration
σcal = ~ 10 ps
2a
2c σσ
Results obtained with 500 tracks from 2 MC
Pb-Pb ev; time delay = 2 ns.
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1.Simulated, w/o effects 2. Simulated, with effects
3. Simulated, calibrated
Dependence on the # of Selected Tracks
The residual σcal depends on the number of selected tracks used in the calibration procedure.
Given a certain number of tracks to be collected/TOF pad, the number of required events comes.
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Required Statistics The number of required events to collect sufficient
statistics to calibrate all the ~ 160000 TOF channels is:
k1NN trev
Ntr = # tracks/pad to obtain a given σcal k = selected tracks “occupancy” ~
250/160000 (250 = # selected tracks in an event)
To obtain σcal ~ 15 ps (which is well within the TOF requirements), Ntr ~ 400.
The number of necessary Pb-Pb events to be collected is O(3x105).
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Required Statistics – pp Runs The number of reconstructed tracks in a MB pp event
is ~ 2. Due to the much cleaner environment in which
reconstruction is carried out, the track selection criteria can be much looser, so that all the reco tracks are taken into account.
For σcal ~ 35 ps, the number of necessary tracks per channel is ~ 150.
Then, the number of required MB pp events is O(107).
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Summary and Conclusions TOF Online and Offline Calibration procedures
defined and implemented since long time TOF Online and Offline Calibration procedures
developed for collisions So far, calibration from cosmics used
TOF Online and Offline calibration tools used to determine channel by channel: Operating Status of the channel:
Online Calibration always used Time Delay & Time Slewing relative to the channel:
TOF Online and Offline Calibration not to be used together: Online Calibration to be used first Offline Calibration to be used second
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