I don't have techno-fear--I have techno JOY!!! --Eddie Izzard.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Unsimulated Orsay data again

All images here use data from run 105 (80 MeV 14C on 50 μg/cm2 natC)

Singles data from all detectors
detector 1 (forward)


detector 2 (backward in quad)


detector 3 (backward in quad)


detector 4 (forward in quad)


detector 5 (forward in quad, possibly not biassed, and with dodgy gain-matching)


detector 1, requiring exactly 1 good quad event (and incidentally at least one good det 1 event)


detector 4, requiring exactly 1 det 1 good event and 1 quad good event.


detector 4, requiring exactly 1 quad event (and however many det 1 events; automatically eliminates complementary-detector events)


detector 4, requiring exactly one good event in det 1 (and as many quad events as you like)


detector 1, requiring exactly one good event in det 1


detector 4, requiring one good event in det 1 and at least 1 good event in the quad


detector 4, requiring one good event in det 1 and at least 1 good event in the quad: veto events with signals in the complementary strip


detector 4, requiring at least 1 good event in the quad: veto events with signals in the complementary strip

Monday, September 04, 2006

unsimulated Orsay data

All strips of Detector 3:


All strips of Detector 4:


Gate on weird stripe in strip 6 of det 3; show det 3:


Same: show det 4:


(all other detectors had no data in any of the strips)

Those patterns suggest that the weird stripes are noise in the ADCs, rather than inter-strip events like I'd thought.

Unsimulated joy(?)

Some highlights from the logbook from the Orsay experiment:
  • The target ladder is an absolute crap!
  • We *were* here last night, right?
  • 6:30 am: Mind gone soggy
  • 11:30 am: Paul is howling
  • Until 2:45 am, we were triggering on noise. C'est vachement emmerdant.
  • Is the target broken?? Lovely. just lovely.