Timing DAQ repository

• Quick start
  • Installation
  • Examples
• Command line options
  • VME additional options:
  • DRS additional options:
• Configuration file
  • General settings
  • Channel specific settings
  • Available fitting algorithms
• Automation

The main aim of this code is to convert raw binary data recorded from SiPMs from different devices and analyze them in a coherent and standardised way. The main executable applications will be created by the istallation in the main folder. One for each available device is present under the form: <device_name>Dat2Root.

Quick start

If you are not interested in the details just use the following commands

Installation

Requirements: ROOT (v6.9 or greater), a c++ compiler. To install copy paste the following:

git clone https://github.com/CaltechPrecisionTiming/TimingDAQ
make -j8

If willing to run on CMSLPC cluster, all the requirements to run are satisfied running

source setup_el9.sh

If willing to run on LXPLUS cluster, all the requirements to run are satisfied running:

source TimingDAQ/setup_lxplus.sh

DRS Example

./DRSDat2Root --input_file=<your_file>.dat --config=config/DRS_Na22.config --N_evts=10000

Example plot produced with the flag --draw_debug_pulses in the FNAL test beam of March 2018.

Run VME reRECO

First of all be sure to copy all the files you need (Track, VME binary and NimPlus) in the correct folder.

./VMEDat2Root --input_file=/eos/cms/store/group/phys_susy/razor/Timing/Mar2018FNAL/OTSDAQ/CMSTiming/RAW/VMEbin/RawDataSaver0CMSVMETiming_Run485.dat --pixel_input_file=/eos/cms/store/group/phys_susy/razor/Timing/Mar2018FNAL/OTSDAQ/CMSTiming/RAW/Tracks/Run485_CMSTiming_converted.root --output_file=/eos/cms/store/group/phys_susy/razor/Timing/Mar2018FNAL/OTSDAQ/CMSTiming/reRECO_180419/DataCMSVMETiming_Run485.root --config=./config/FNALTestbeam_1803/VME_BTLreRECO_180419.config --N_evt_expected=6859

Or you can use the automated version

./automation/run_reRECO.sh 482 485 -F -f -np

Command line options

All the command line option must be passed using the sintax --<opt>=<val>. For all options, --<opt> is equal to --<opt>=true. The following option are common to all the devices.

Compulsory arguments don't have default value

Argument	Default	Notes
input_file		Binary input file with the data. Must end in .dat.
config		Configuration file (see below).
verbose	false	Activate verbosity.
output_file	<input>.root	Output root file containing a singe tree called pulse. If not provided, the default option is to have the same name of the input file with the .root extension.
N_evts	0	Event number at which stop reading the input file. If 0, continue until eof is reached.
start_evt	0	Event at which start analysing and writing in the TTree.
save_raw	false	Boolean value indicating whether to save or not the raw ADC counts.
save_meas	false	Boolean value indicating whether to save or not the full time and voltage vector for each event.
draw_debug_pulses	false	If true all the pulses are saved as .png. Alternatively, --draw_debug_pulses=.<ext> will save the TCanvas in the given extension.
N_evt_expected	-1	If positive, number of event compared to the loaded ones. If positive and not matching, don't write the tree.

VME additional options:

Argument	Default	Notes
pixel_input_file	""	If not empty, the TFile with the tree of the pixel event is opened and the content analysed and added to the output file.
calibration_file	calibration/v1740	Load the calibration from the locations <calibration_file>_bd1_group_[0-3]_[offset-dV].txt. If ZEROS, put all calibration values to 0.
Max_corruption	10	Max number of detected corruption before stopping the acquisition.
NSkip<N>	0 or 1	Number of event to skip during the corruption number <N>. By default skip 1 if corruption detected at the end of event header and 0 if detected in the middle.

DRS additional options:

No additional options.

Configuration file

Specify how the analysis should be run. The first part is supposed to specify general settings. The second one is supposed to set the channel specific configuration.

All the lines starting with # are ignored.

General settings

Line	Default	Notes
Baseline <start> <stop>	Baseline 5 150	Specify the start and stop time which delimit the constant fit to compute the baseline. Time units are the ones specified in the time field of the waveform.
ConstantFraction <f_1> .. <f_n>	ConstantFraction 15 30 45	List of fractions [%] at which the rising time has to be computed and saved in the tree.
ConstantThreshold <t_1> .. <t_n>	ConstantThreshold	List of threshold [mV] at which the rising time has to be computed and saved in the tree. Default none.
z_DUT <z_1> .. <z_n>	z_DUT -50. 50.	List of the z position of the detectors under test where the x-y position has to be computed. Values are in mm. If the pixel_input_file = "" , this configuration is ignored.

Channel specific settings

To activate a channel is sufficient to have line that starts with the channel number. The channel number must be followed by other 5 parameters:

<ch_num> <pol> <amp> <att> <algo> <weies_filter>

An example line is:

2 + 1. 4. Re20-70+LP2+G 0.

Recommended algorithm are G40 for Photek pulses and LP2 for SiPMs pulses.

The meaning of each parameter is explained below:

Parameter	Values	Notes
ch_num	unsigned int	Number of the channel to be activated.
pol	+, - or .	Polarity of the waveform. Pulses are supposed to have the peak below the baseline. Adding . allow automatic polarity switch (e.g. +.).
amp	float	Value of the amplification applied [dB].
att	float	Value of the attenuation applied [dB].
algo	string	Algorithms to be applied to fit the rising edge to compute the constant fraction times.
weies_filter	float	Not implemented yet.

Available fitting algorithms

The following list include all the algorithms that can be performed. If more than one algorithm is deisred, the flags shouls be separed by the character +.

• None : No fit is run. Equivalent to have all the channels not fittable.
• G<frac> : Fit with a gaussian. The range is defined by frac: takes all the point near the peak that are above frac of the peak amplitude. If only G is given, it is interpreted as G40.
• LP<deg> : Fit the rising edge with a polynomial of degree deg in the proximity of the closest point to the constant fraction.
• IL : Time given by the line passing from the 2 closest point to the constant fraction (threshold) specified.
• FL : Time given by the line passing from the 3 closest point to the constant fraction (threshold) specified.
• SPL : Time given by the SPline interpolation given by ``TGraph::Eval(v, 0, "S")```
• Re<f_start>-<f_stop> : Linear fit from the point closer to the fraction f_start
• TOT : WS transform (sinc interpolation) and TimeOverThreshold for all fraction and threshold

Automation

This folder collect all the scripts that try to automise the processing of data.

An example line is:

python automation/DecodeVME.py 130 132

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