CalDet Analysis

CalDet is the MINOS Calibration Detector located at Cern. This Detector has being exposed in mainly electron, muon and pion beams and has been read out by both Far and Near Detector Electronics . The electronics used for the Near Detector are different from the ones used in the Far detector. The main component of the Front End Electronics Electronics for the Near Detector is the QIE chip. This chip has been developed by the ASIC Design Group at Fermilab is capable of digitizing at the 53 MHz RF frequency, with no intrinsic dead time and with a dynamic range of 16 bits.

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During my visit at CalDet for two weeks in October of  2003  I started working (having very useful discussions and help from A.Cabrera mainly , and also G. Drake, D. Reyna, P. Shanahan and Simona Murgia that wrote the QieCalibration Module that makes the tree with the summary table information) on an analysis related with the QIE chip Calibration and Response.  The details and  results of this analysis, that is still in progress, are summarized in the following  presentations:

• Study of the QIE Calibration & Response using CalDet Data

• Updated results on the study of the QIE Calibration and Results using CalDet Data      

• QIE Response and development of  diagnostic tools for the ND electronis

• Update on the development of diagnostic tools for ND electronics
  

• Brief  review of Artifical Neural Network basics

• Final results of  QIE Calibration CalDet Analysis and development of ND diagnostic tools