Closed cpecar closed 1 year ago
Outputs of RICH time calibration check when using rga-fall2018 RICH time calibration parameters in gemc digitization and in reconstruction.
Some test plots using:
Individual photon Cherenkov angle, a few thousand single electrons thrown. Using new ccdb-timing feature with ccbd parameters set to zero (what we would currently default to with ccdb-timing on and an MC run number like 11)
Individual photon Cherenkov angle, single electrons thrown, ccdb-timing with the time parameters taken now from rga-fall2018 (with a real rg-a run number):
Need to produce higher statistics to properly understand Cherenkov angle resolution effects from just this change. I can also try to put together some time-resolution plots in addition to the one already in an above comment, but it will take more time.
Some more plots with same code versions as above. Now looking at an estimate of hit time resolution here taken as calibrated_hit_time - (emission_time + traced_time)
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With ccdbTiming on and time calibration parameters from rga-fall2018:
With ccdbTiming on and time calibration parameters zero (default e.g. run=11):
Might want some input from Marco M. on if these look reasonable enough, or if maybe we should inject a smaller spread in things like time offset. Also some weird spikes I think due to the time stamp correction that only show up with time calibration parameters set to 0.
If we want I can try to produce something with the timing taken just from the MAPMT simulation (ccdbTiming off, how it was before this PR), but this should in principle require actually extracting the resulting time calibration parameters which would need a much larger simulated dataset.
Current RICH digitization produced TDC values from a simulation of the PMT avalanche itself, which produces realistic timing results but is not necessarily consistent with the time walk and time offset parameters in the ccdb. This PR will introduce an option to instead produce TDC values based on the time calibration parameters from the ccdb.
Additionally, this PR implements RICH dark current hits based on a 500Hz dark rate across all pixels.