[esa-t474] BPM frequencies

[Yury Kolomensky]

	Hi Bino,

this looks good. As for BPMs 12 an 24, they are on ESA water, which  
is not very stable. This probably explains the drifts you see. The LO  
is common to all BPMs.

Yury

On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Bino Maiheu wrote:

> 	Dear All,
>
> As a first step in the analysis of the July 07 data, I've started by
> having a real close look to the frequencies of the waveforms as  
> they are
> needed for the calibration of the BPMs and I want to understand any
> systematics as good as possible.
>
> I've fitted every BPM waveform with a decaying exponential, using a
> constrained fit with the frequency and width of the fourier transform
> peak as initial input. This fit, although somewhat slow, seems to be
> working fine.
>
> The FFT spectra, frequencies etc are available from
>
> http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/lc/T474/EsaData/fits.0/
>
> where the fit parameters of each fit are stored in the root files as
> well. I'll upload macros into cvs later on to plot the fit  
> functions on
> top of the waveform and FT.
>
> So far, I've plotted these frequencies versus pulse number and updated
> the data quality web-database with the plots. So far runs 2725- 
> >2850 are
> there, with the others on the way (takes about 50-60 hours for a  
> single
> average run). I've made a cut on the chi2/ndf for plotting the
> frequencies, showing only 'decent' quality fitted frequencies.
> As Yury and Zen figured out, we were running on internal clock, so I
> have taken this into account, the IF frequency values shown are in MHz
> ( note the fact that we were undersampling for all but BPM7 ).
>
> http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/lc/T474/EsaRunInfo/show_dq.php
>
> ( currently 2735 -> 2850 )
>
> I'll make a plot of the average frequency per run with the error,  
> but i
> will need to look a bit in detail since some of the distributions are
> not nicely Gaussian, so that I pick the correct frequency for accurate
> calibration of the DDC algorithm.
>
> One thing i noticed, see e.g.:
>
> http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/lc/T474/EsaRunInfo/show_dq.php? 
> run=2725&plot=7
>
> is that the frequency for BPM 12/24 waveforms seems quite unstable, I
> suspect this to be due to changes in the LO for these channels. Also,
> once can clearly see a double frequency structure for BPM 7.
>
> Anyway, as I said, I'll determing the averages to use as input for the
> DDC from this as Mark learned that this gives the best resolution.  
> I'll
> add the plots for the decay constants and t0 from the fits as well.
>
> I'll keep you informed of my progress.
>
> Bino
>
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