Re: convention for delta t

From: Bjorn H Samset (bjornhs@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 08:18:22 EDT

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    On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Michael Murray Tel 409 845 1411,FAX 1899, Home 823
    3386 wrote:
    
    >    Dear Bjorn,
    >            I think that making dt = t_left - t_right is more logical
    since
    > it will be positive for positve Z.
    >                       Yours Michael
    
    Yes - this is what I have also landed on. What confused me was that
    BrRdoModuleBB uses right-left, but I have now been told by Yury that this
    module is obsolete and should not be used so I guess that clears it up.
    
    But I have another question for you and Andrei. In BrRdoModuleZDC you
    still have the timing-offset that I rather ad-hoc introduced this summer
    to get z=0 when doing z=(t_left-t_right)*c. Is this the correct value to
    use for this correction - i.e. should it be included in other software if
    I want to avoid using the rdo-module - and what is really the reason for
    the correction? I remember all the fuss about this just before I left BNL,
    but I thought that the reason then was the use of module 1 instead of the
    sum of all three times. BrRdoModule uses - as far as I can tell - the
    tdc-sum, and still needs the offset. So - what is the "correct" procedure
    for extracting z from the ZDC's?
    
    Ping from Norway :-)
    
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