happex daq / adc tests

HAPPEX DAQ / ADC Tests

Luis MercadoUMASS4/17/09

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.

Proper Lumi-ADC setup was tested Jan’08 to achieve minimum pedestal noise.

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?

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.

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.

Future Tests

High rate deadtime. Checks of new helicity sequence

board. Synch checks. Pedestal Studies (helicity-correlated

noise).

Latest 18-bit ADC Tests

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.

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.

Integration Time (IT) Study

Have had problems in the past with gross nonlinearities at high end of ADC range.


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.


• Residuals areless than 0.1%

• Local slopes vary by ~0.4%

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.

PMT Linearity (Formalism)

A PMT’s non-linear response can be expressed as follows:

Experimental asymmetry can be approximated:

NNNPMT 1

0exp 1 NANN

NNA true

PMTPMT

PMTPMT

Experimental Test Setup

PMT Linearity (w. 16bit ADC)

Input = 12nA

HV = 370

Output = uA

B*N_0 = -5.25%

PMT Linearity (w. 18-bit ADC)

Input = 12nA

HV = 370

Output = uA

B*N_0 = -5.14%

Good PMT Linearity

Input = 2nA

HV = 727

Output = uA

B*N_0 = 0.7%

Good PMT Linearity

Input = 2nA

HV = 727

Output = uA

B*N_0 = 0.77%

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.

Acknowledgements

Krishna Kumar Kent Pashke Dustin McNulty Robert Michaels HAPPEX/PREX Collaboration

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