GEn01 Electronics Dead-time

The electronics dead-time is determined from an electronics circuit that replicates the electron trigger signal with different gate widths: 30ns, 60ns, 90ns and 120ns These signals are sent to scalers. From the scaler values one can extrapolate to 0ns gate width via a linear fit. The nominal gate width in the electronics circuit is 30ns. To quote the electronics dead-time one calculates the relative loss of counts from 0ns gate width to 30ns gate width.

The analysis was done for the Q2=0.5 and Q2=1 period, 2 runs each. For run 41001 and 41599 the 90ns gate was missing.

Results

The electronics dead-time is lower than 5e-5. This is two orders of magnitude less than the measured physics asymmetry for neutrons and thus neglible.

Plots:

• postscript run 41001
  
• postscript run 41599
  
• postscript run 42827
  
• postscript run 43021