第二十讲时间测量方法4_1课件.pptVIP

2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * Concept of TOT The pulse height of a signal from PMT is proportional to the stored charge caused by photoelectrons A PMT pulse delivers a charge which charges a capacitor The capacitor then discharges as that in a simple RC circuit The leading edge gives the time information and the length of the pulse gives the logarithm of the charge 2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * The Conceptual Simulation for TOT 2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * The Conceptual Simulation for TOT The time over threshold is proportional to the logarithm of the PE number Small signal with little amount PEs results in the relatively large error Amplification and low threshold discriminator for small signal are essential While amplification for large signal will lead to saturation 2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * Two Separate Thresholds Discriminator Concept A small pulse from the PMT can pass only the low threshold, and thus it only produces two crossing edge times A large signal can fire both the low threshold and the high threshold to generate 4 edge counts in the TDC The delays in the circuit ensure a fixed time interval (~25ns) between the low and high threshold outputs 2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * The Advantages of Dual Threshold TOT Achieve the wide dynamic range of charge measurement The signals which are large enough intend to saturate the high gain amplifier Alleviate the influence of Pre-pulsing A large PMT pulse with sufficiently large amount PEs increases the incidence of pre-pulsing which affects the low TOT value as well as the low start time High-start slewing is not influenced by pre-pulsing, so using the high-start slewing whenever it is possible is always the first choice Differentiate between overlapping pulses and a real large pulse A long pulse will never be mistaken for a large signal if the high threshold does not fire 2011-05-04 中国科学技术大学 快电子实验室 刘树彬? * The Conceptual Simulation for Dual Threshold TOT PMT R5912 signal waveform pattern