sPHENIX HCal discussion

[Martin Purschke <purschke AT bnl.gov>]

BTW, if you are desperate, you can prepend my test area to your 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:


> purschke@rcas2067 ~ $ 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/phenix/u/purschke/softwarerepo/install/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> purschke@rcas2067 ~ $ dlist  
> /sphenix/data/data02/sphenix/hcal/1008/LED/LED_s25_north-00000048-0000.evt
> Packet  1001  1000 -1 (sPHENIX Packet)  92 (IDDIGITIZERV1)

Best,
        Martin

On 3/25/22 21:42, Martin Purschke via sPHENIX-HCal-l wrote:
> John,
> we haven't had a rebuild since the pull request. Patience.. Should be in 
> tomorrow.
>
> Best, Martin
> --
> Sent from my Android phone.
>
>
> On March 25, 2022 8:22:56 PM EDT, John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov> wrote:
>
>     Martin,
>
>     Is there something different in the decoder version that hasn't
>     propagated to RCF?  I see on that same file:
>
>     [jsh@rcas2074 LED]$ ddump -f LED_s25_south-00000047-0000.evt
>     Packet  1001  1000 -1 (sPHENIX Packet)  92 (UNKNOWN)
>           0 |  0c01 1f32 ffff 000c 0001 faaf 061b 0638
>           8 |  0622 063c 0626 0644 062e 064f 064f 0669
>          16 |  0668 0677 0782 078b 0e38 0f7a 1b1b 1fb0
>          24 |  27b3 2ef5 2897 2fde 2080 2579 1700 19f6
>          32 |  103b 11e6 0c6f 0d58 0a77 0b05 0959 09d2
>
>     where I see on emcal data:
>
>     [jsh@rcas2074 test]$ ddump -f test_00020480-0000.prdf  | more
>     Packet  21351  5981  0 (Unformatted)    93 (IDDIGITIZER_31S)
>     Evt Nr:      0
>     Clock:       47828
>     Nr Modules:  3
>     Channels:    192
>     Samples:     31
>     Det. ID:     0x5555
>     Mod. Addr:   0x3333
>     FEM Slot:          14      13      12
>     FEM Evt nr:         1       1       1
>     FEM Clock:      47819   47819   47819
>     Even chksum: 0xc883   calculated:  0xc883 ok
>     Odd chksum:  0x8671   calculated:  0x8671 ok
>
>     On 2022-03-25 17:21, Martin Purschke wrote:
>
>         John,
>
>         92 aka IDDIGITIZERV1 is correct - it denotes the standalone data
>         read
>         directly through the crate controller, not the DCM2. The iValue
>         API is
>         exactly the same as for the others - well, that's the idea of the
>         hitformat.
>
>         I left a packet id 1001 dialed in. But once you have the packet, you
>         shouldn't see a difference.
>
>         Best,
>         Martin
>
>
>             $ ddump /data/phnxrc/standalone_hcal/LED_s25_
>             LED_s25_north-00000048-0000.evt LED_s25_north-00000054-0000.evt
>             LED_s25_south-00000047-0000.evt LED_s25_south-00000053-0000.evt
>             [phnxrc@daq06 standalone_hcal]$ ddump
>             /data/phnxrc/standalone_hcal/LED_s25_south-00000047-0000.evt
>             Packet 1001 1000 -1 (sPHENIX Packet) 92 (IDDIGITIZERV1)
>             Evt Nr: 1
>             Clock: 64175
>             Channels: 64
>             Samples: 31
>             L1 Delay: 50
>             Slot Nr: 12
>             Nr Modules: 1
>
>             0 | 1563 1570 1574 1582 1615 1640 1922
>             3640 6939 10163 10391 8320 5888 4155 3183 2679
>             2393 2214 2081 1981 1920 1880 1839 1791 1753
>             1728 1728 1726 1718 1704 1698
>             1 | 1592 1596 1604 1615 1641 1655 1931
>             3962 8112 12021 12254 9593 6646 4582 3416 2821
>             2514 2307 2166 2051 1976 1936 1894 1838 1788
>             1760 1763 1761 1750 1727 1715
>
>
>         ...
>
>
>
>
>         On 3/25/22 10:58, John Haggerty wrote:
>
>             Very nice, and congratulations to all!
>
>             The data seem to be written with a different hit format than
>             the beam
>             test data and emcal data we've taken... it seems to be 92
>             and we
>             normally record 93.  Could we make it that?  Thanks.
>
>             On 2022-03-24 23:38, Martin Purschke via sPHENIX-HCal-l wrote:
>
>                 Dear all,
>
>                 at long last we had all the ingredients together to read
>                 out a sector
>                 of the HCal (sector 25 that happened to be connected)
>                 with a real
>                 sPHENIX digitizer. All other tests in 912 or 1008 had
>                 been done using
>                 the old PHENIX MBD electronics (and some were done with
>                 a DRS4). In
>                 order to avoid any surprises, we had long planned to
>                 read the HCal
>                 out
>                 with the "real thing". Today was the day.
>
>                 Dan, Stefan, Hanpu, and I took some pulser and LED data.
>                 This was
>                 interleaved with other rigging work in the AH, but we
>                 got some useful
>                 runs.
>
>                 I have first renamed the files to some more meaningful
>                 names (the DAQ
>                 setup will become more polished tomorrow and over the
>                 weekend to do
>                 that out of the box) and have uploaded them to the RCF at
>
>                 /sphenix/data/data02/sphenix/hcal/1008
>
>                 There are directories for LED, Pulser, cosmics (no
>                 cosmics files
>                 there yet).
>
>                 There are 48 connected channels out of the 64 that the
>                 digitizer has,
>                 0-23 the south half, and 24-47 the north half of the sector.
>
>                 For a quick look, I attach single event displays of the
>                 48 channels
>                 vs
>                 the 31 waveform samples for north + south (the
>                 LED/pulser works on a
>                 half sector at a time). Those are LED runs.
>
>                 One of the questions we had that was already answered
>                 today: the
>                 polarity of the signals is right.
>
>
>                 We later switched to sector 2 at the about 6 o'clock
>                 position, where
>                 we installed (or tried to) a cosmic ray telescope with 2
>                 scintillator
>                 paddles, one in the magnet and one underneath the barrel
>                 (Dan and
>                 Stefan took some pictures). Unfortunately, while both
>                 worked just
>                 fine
>                 in a test when I set up the coincidence logic the day
>                 before, I could
>                 not get the lower one to hold HV today (maybe b/c we had
>                 drizzling
>                 rain and high humidity today?). Since I had to leave
>                 early today, for
>                 now I used just the upper one, which of course is a
>                 really poor
>                 trigger. But I do see a cosmic signal here and there.
>                 More tomorrow.
>
>                 The list of runs and some more info in the ELog at
>
>                 https://sphenix-intra.sdcc.bnl.gov/WWW/elog/HCAL/1432
>                 <https://sphenix-intra.sdcc.bnl.gov/WWW/elog/HCAL/1432>
>
>                 Best,
>                      Martin
>                 
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