Carlos W. Salgado - Version 1.0 - August, 2001
NOTE: Photon Trigger files should only be changed by, or with direct authorization of, the run coordinator.
During CLAS photon beam runs, level 1 [L1] triggers are produced by the coincidence of the so-called "photon triggers" and "CLAS triggers. The CLAS trigger is a logic combination of CLAS detector signals made by the Tigris software and it is note addressed in this document. . The photon trigger is and input to the trigger supervisor [TS]. This note documents the hardware and software needed to set the photon trigger. There is hardware to make possible two photon trigger inputs into the TS, they are called ASYNC1 and ASYNC2.
The photon trigger provides to the TS the following information:
2 Hardware
The hardware for the photon trigger is located in part at the space frame [SF] (1st floor), and in part at the forward carriage [FC] (2nd floor).
[MOR]
The MOR is produced by a series of "cascading" coincidences
done by NIM Phillips 754 modules. See figure 1 for the general tagger system
electronic diagram. These modules are to the left of the tagger electronic
racks, entering the Hall to your right. There are "extra" 754 modules,
more than the necessary to make just one combination of all T counters.
Therefore, up to TWO MORs can be defined as any subset of T counter ranges.
There are two cables of same length (about 110ns) running from the SF to
the FC electronics carrying these two MOR signals for ASYNC1 and ASYNC2.
G6C: two equal MOR are defined by the 1-12 T counters
Two 754 modules are used to combined [1-4,5-8,9-12].
MOR for ASYNC1 and ASYNC2 are the same in g6c.
[ST]
The ST logical signals are made in the rack to the
right of where the MOR signals are defined. There is the possibility for
two ST combinations going to the FC (again, there are two equal length
cables – also of the same length as the MOR cables). They will be combined
with the MOR signals to form ASYNC1 and ASYNC2 at the FC. There are six
ST signals coming to the rack. 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6 are added and sent to a
NIM 740 Phillips module. See diagram in figure 2.
G6C: ASYNC1 is the logic signal of 2 out of three
(2/3) hits.
ASYNC2 is the logic signal of 1 out of three
(1/3) hits.
MoModule | slot | description |
ASYNC1 | ||
4413 | 3 | MOR discriminator (test input behind) |
4413 | 5 | ST discriminator (test input behind) |
4418 | 4 | ST delay (MOR is currently not delay) |
4516 | 9 | MOR ST logic AND |
ASYNC2 | ||
2313 | 20 | MOR discriminator (input at address 0) |
2313 | 21 | ST discriminator (input at address 8) |
4418 | 22 | ST delay (MOR is currently not delay ) |
4516 | 23 | MOR ST logic AND |
ASYNC2: The modules for the ASYNC2 trigger
are to the right of the CAMAC unit (crate 2). The MOR signal from
the SF enters a 2313 discriminator unit (from the input #1 (address 0).
Input 1 goes directly to the logic module (no delay) (level 1). The ST
signal enters another 2313 discriminator unit but through channel #9 (address
8). The ST signal goes through a 4418-delay unit where the relative timing
is adjusted (during commissioning in steps of 2 ns from 2 to 32 ns).
There is not TAC signal related to ASYNC2.
3 Software
The FC CAMAC electronics is controlled from the CLON machines using the photon gui or editing and setting the photon trigger files "by hand".
The photon gui function is an interface to produce the photon trigger file. The trigger configuration from the DAQ run the setting of the photon trigger electronics as specified by this file at the initiation of each experimental run.
["by hand"]
Files related to the photon triggers are at:
$CLON_PARMS/photon
for g6C the file is:
$CLON_PARMS/photon/g6/config/phtrigger_asybc12_startm.pl
that file can be set "manually" using the command: (from the above directory):
photon_setup camac1 phtrigger_asybc12_startm.pl
check
4 Commissioning the photon trigger
One way to make this curve is using the information on the TLV1 banks
Use: /home/clasrun/tlv1/bin/tlv1
5 Production Running with the photon trigger