Updated BrRdoZDC, BrRdoModuleZDC

From: Michael Murray (murray@CyclotronMail.tamu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 00:16:12 EDT

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    Hello everybody,
    
    Several changes to BrRdoZDC and
    BrRdoModuleZDC sources have been done:
    
    1. BrRdoZDC object returns now calibrated energy,
    time and z-vertex (in GeV, ns and cm). The new
    (changed) methods are:
    
    Float_t GetEnergyLeft ()
    Float_t GetEnergyRight ()
    
    Float_t	GetTime1Left ()
    Float_t	GetTime2Left ()
    Float_t	GetTime3Left ()
    Float_t	GetTimeLeft ()
    Float_t	GetTime1Right ()
    Float_t	GetTime2Right ()
    Float_t	GetTime3Right ()
    Float_t	GetTimeRight ()
    
    Float_t	GetZ () 
    
    2. BrRdoModuleZDC object has now an
    Init () method which needs to be executed
    after object instantiaton.
    
    3. Timing-calibration constants for ZDC's TDC
    (instead of fixed value TdcCount= 0.1 ns
    for all channels) and new, refined, slewing-correction
    parameters for 6 ZDC modules now used to calculate times.
    Using of "calibrated times" should remove problem with
    different time-scales from different detectors, which was
    discussed here, if it was from ZDCs.
    
    4. Methods GetTimeLeft () and GetTimeRight () return
    (when possible) an average time from 3 (or from first
    2, if 3rd didn't fire) modules, which is also used for
    z-vertex calculation. They do not return the times from "sum"
    signals (I havn't done slewing correction for "sum"
    times yet). If there was an ADC or TDC over(under)flow
    all "time-returning" methods and GetZ () method return
    value of 99999.0
    
    5. The default z-vertex offset of 27.6 cm (according
    to TPC data), because of different TDC cable lengths, is
    still incorporated in z-position calculation.
    
    Please try these new ones, any comments and corrections
    are welcome.
    
    Andrei Makeev, Michael Murray.
    



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