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HAPPEX DAQ / ADC Tests

HAPPEX DAQ / ADC Tests. Luis Mercado UMASS 4/17/09. Full DAQ System. Crate currently used in electronics lab for testing. Plan to move crate into the Hall in early June. Left Arm Detectors. Will house Luminosity Monitor connections, Cavity Monitors and Right Arm Detectors.

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HAPPEX DAQ / ADC Tests

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  1. HAPPEX DAQ / ADC Tests Luis Mercado UMASS 4/17/09

  2. Full DAQ System

  3. Crate currently used in electronics lab for testing. • Plan to move crate into the Hall in early June. • Left Arm Detectors.

  4. Will house Luminosity Monitor connections, Cavity Monitors and Right Arm Detectors. • Proper Lumi-ADC setup was tested Jan’08 to achieve minimum pedestal noise.

  5. Needs to be revived. • Will have different configurations with and without Qweak Crate to facilitate standalone tests. • Should we only use Helicity signals in this crate like during HAPPEX run?

  6. Recently underwent a test with 1 kHz MPS sequence. • DAQ starts to breaks down at 3 kHz. • Concluded we can run at 2 kHz, or 200 Hz with ovs of 10, or 240 Hz with ovs of 8. • Maybe higher but needs to be investigated.

  7. Current Plans • Revive synchronization checks. • Replace many 16-bit ADCs with new 18-bit boards. • Basic DAQ should be ready for testing by mid-July.

  8. Future Tests • High rate deadtime. • Checks of new helicity sequence board. • Synch checks. • Pedestal Studies (helicity-correlated noise).

  9. Latest 18-bit ADC Tests

  10. New 18-bit ADCs • Received four brand new boards a couple of weeks ago. • Performance matches previous tests with prototypes. • Will be receiving 10 more new boards by June 1st.

  11. Testing of 18-bit boards. • Setting and recording proper pedestals offsets. • Studying pedestal noise with respect to gain setting (as low as 12ppm). • Testing linearity of current mode for use with Luminosity Monitors. • Comparing results with previous study done with 16-bit ADCs.

  12. Integration Time (IT) Study • Have had problems in the past with gross nonlinearities at high end of ADC range.

  13. Integration Time (IT) Study • Redid test using new 18-bit ADCs, with some changes: • Sample more IT values by taking smaller steps up the IT ladder. • More data points for higher IT values to get better error bar. • Go up to 230-240K signal to see if it gets worse at the higher end.

  14. Integration Time (IT) Study • Residuals are • less than 0.1% • Local slopes vary by ~0.4%

  15. Integration Time (IT) Study • Residuals are • less than 0.1% • Local slopes vary by ~0.4%

  16. PMT Linearity • Past tests have shown nonlinearities in PMT output dependant on input and gain. • Want to make sure we get similar results with new 18-bit ADCs. • Showed that results matched in good and bad linearity regions.

  17. PMT Linearity (Formalism) • A PMT’s non-linear response can be expressed as follows: • Experimental asymmetry can be approximated:

  18. Experimental Test Setup

  19. PMT Linearity (w. 16bit ADC) Input = 12nA HV = 370 Output = uA B*N_0 = -5.25%

  20. PMT Linearity (w. 18-bit ADC) Input = 12nA HV = 370 Output = uA B*N_0 = -5.14%

  21. Good PMT Linearity Input = 2nA HV = 727 Output = uA B*N_0 = 0.7%

  22. Good PMT Linearity Input = 2nA HV = 727 Output = uA B*N_0 = 0.77%

  23. Ongoing Developments • Revive all HAPPEX DAQ crates and test their performance. • Will need to modify 18-bit ADCs to match replaced 16-bit boards. • Want to document good linearity regions for all available LUMI PMTs.

  24. Acknowledgements • Krishna Kumar • Kent Pashke • Dustin McNulty • Robert Michaels • HAPPEX/PREX Collaboration

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