Trigger Readout Connection Table

Checked 7/21/00. Prepared by Andrei Sukhanov.

A sketch of the L0/L1 logic can be found here.

Name Source module TDC
slot #
Chan
nel #
Virtual
detector
Trig
bit
Valid since Note
PN A1C 9 48 GX00 0 At least 1 hit in negative paddle counter. 3
PP A1D 9 49 GX01 0 At least 1 hit in positive paddle counter. 3
CC Blue C12B 9 50 GX02 0 Blue crossing clock
PNPP(n) wide C4B-A8C 9 51 GX03 6/02 1 Wide coincidence PN(n)*PP(n). Previously it was CC_delayed from B5B
PNPP wide C4A-B4A-A2C 9 52 GX04 L0.11 0 PN*PP coincidence
ZTrig D4A 9 53 GX05 L1.7 0 ZN ZP narrow coincidence
L0 G11C 9 54 GX06 0 Slightly delayed L0.
L1 TML1O0 9 55 GX07 0 Generated by TML1 board.
ZN D6A 9 56 GX08 2 At least 1 hit in negative ZCal
ZP D6C 9 57 GX09 2 At least 1 hit in positive ZCal
Centrality
Trigger
A12B-C10D 9 58 GX0A 5404S4 0 Previously it was PN>2 from A9A.
PP(n) A9B 9 59 GX0B 3 At least n hits in positive paddle counter
CC Yellow C12C 9 60 GX0C 0 Yellow crossing clock. applied 5/26/00, run 3120
PNPP(n) narrow C4C-A8B 9 61 GX0D 6/04 0 narrow coincidence
PNPP narrow C4D-A2B 9 62 GX0E 6/04 0 narrow coincidence
ADCGate G6B 9 63 GX0F

~G11B

6/08

run-3777

3 ADC6 Gate for Paddles

TOF Gate

Note 1

The Notation L0.11 means that this trigger goes to TML0 board input 11. It can be read back as bit 11 at L0 latch register using GetTrigL0Latch()&0x800

Note 2

On 05/23/00 at 1000 (run 3060 Paddle Cosmic) the delay cable for all trigger time signals (TDC09 channels 48:63) were changed from 150 ns  to 190 ns

Note 3

Before 05/23/00 at 1000 ((run 3060 Paddle Cosmic) the PN and PP signals were connected to A1A, A1B respectively.

 

Trigger Scalers Connection Table

The scaler is Caen Model V560N. This is 16 channel 32-bit scaler. It is cleared only on program restart. The scaler value can be obtained using TPhEventBufferInfo::GetScaler(index)

Scaler
Channel
Name Source Valid
since
DB Notes
0 ZP*ZN narrow C3.6-D3B 7/10/00 7 Before 7/10 it was connected to D2C
1 PN*PP wide B4A-A2C 5/1/00   wide range 38 ns
2 ZN C3.9-D6A 5/1/00 5  
3 ZP C3.10-D6B 5/1/00 6  
4 PP A1B 5/1/00 4 07/21 It was always connected to A1B
5 PN A1A 5/1/00 3  
6 PN*PP narrow A2B 6/2/00 0 narrow coincidence
7 PNPP(n) narrow A8B 6/4   narrow coincidence
8 PNPP(n) wide A8C 6/15   wide coincidence. Between 6/14 and 6/15 it was mistakenly connected to A2B
9 ZP*ZN wide D3C 7/10/00    
10 ZN*ZP 10ns*CC D8A 08/09/00 2 This signal is delivered to RHIC
11 L1.1Acc TML1.CO.11- G5.03 run 5441
08/11/00
1 Number of accepted Central Triggers ( L1.O11) previously it was
Number of accepted PN*PPnarrow triggers (L1.O1)
12   A12B run 5444   Number of applied Central Triggers
13          
14          
15 CC C3.13-C12.2 6/6   Crossing clock, yellow.

 

Trigger bits

Trigger bits of the L0 board. Accessible using TPhEventBufferInfo::GetTrigL0Latch()

L0
bits
Name Source Valid
since
Notes
0 reserved      
1 reserved   run 3525  
2 reserved   run 3525  
3 reserved   run 3525  
4 reserved   run 3525  
5 reserved      
6 reserved      
7 reserved      
8 Heartbeat   06/05/00 Heartbeat generator T=8sec. Provides triggers in absence of the beam for Si monitoring.
9 TimeCal   01/01/00 Time calibrator. It is ON for plastic time calibration runs
10 Pedestal   run 3525 100 Hz generator, switched on for Si Pedestal Run
11 SiCosm   run 3525 Silicon Cosmic Trigger.
Before 06/14 it was PN*PP
12 PN*PP wide   run 3525 Wide gate coincidence of the PN and PP
13 ZTrig0   run 4296 ZCAL trigger
14 CC     Crossing clock
15 Veto     External signal to veto L0 board. Should never be seen.

 

Trigger bits of the L1 board. Accessible using TPhEventBufferInfo::GetTrigL1Latch()

L1
bits
Name Source Valid
since
Notes
0 L0 Output of the L0 board.
1 PN>2*PP>2 narrow C4C-A8B run 4982 Most interesting trigger.
For runs 3525:4982 the PNPP narrow was here. Before the run 3540 The CC was connected and coinc. level was 2
2 reserved ZTrig ZCAL trigger
3 PNPP narrow C4D-A2B run 4982 Moved here from L1.1
4 CT A12B-C10D run 5441 -5575 Centrality Trigger
5 CT A12B-C10D 5577 Centrality Trigger. Moved here from L1.4.
6 reserved run 3535
run 3540
PNPP(n) wide A8C moved here from L1.1 (was there since 3525) due to problems in L1 board
Removed.
7
8 0
9 0
10 0
11 0
12 0
13 0
14 L1 Output signal.
15 Busy Generated inside the L1 board

 

History of prescaler settings

Run Date P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7
n/a n/a all L0 PNPP>0 ZTrig n/a n/a
3540 6/15 22:35 8 1 1 n/a n/a
3905 6/28 9:31 1 1 1 n/a n/a
4321 07/23 4:29 1024 1 1 n/a n/a
4363 07/24 17:02 256 1 1 n/a n/a
4747 8/10 20:31 2048 1 8 n/a n/a
4982 8/14 21:01 all L0 PNPP>2 ZTrig PNPP>0 CT
4982 8/14 21:01 2048 1 8 8 n/a
5441 08/26 14:40 16384 32 64 256 1
5483 08/28 17:35 16384 32 128 256 1
5516 08/30 16:15 16384 8 128 256 1
5578 9/2 6:24 all L0 PNPP>2 ZTrig PNPP>0 n/a CT
5578 9/2 6:24 16384 8 128 256 1 1