Anticoincidence shield

Upper spark chamber

(close spacing)

Lower spark chamber

(wide spacing)

Time of flight
coincidence
system
Pressure vessel

Electronics
NaI Calorimeter Spark chamber
gas supply
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1997 April 16

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50 m

Amplifiers 60 ns delay lines

(gain=10)

Majority Trigger
Discriminators logic unit ADCs

Scalers List processor GPS

Alt-az drive motors

Tracking PC
Position encoders Acquisition
computer
CCD CCD
camera control PC
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Read run information

(mode, run IDs, date, etc)

Yes
FZ data files Uncompress
compressed ? FZ files

No

No No
GCFs Nitrogen pedestals
available ? available ?

Yes Yes

Read GCFs Read nitrogen Calculate nitrogen

from database pedestals from pedestals and output
database to database

Calculate GCFs and

output to database

Reduction of data run

No

Have both
Yes
On-off on and off run
mode ? been analysed ?

No
Yes

Close I/O files

No
All runs/pairs
analysed ?

Yes

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Open FZ
run file

No
Pedestals
available ?

Yes
Calculate pedestals
Read pedestals
from sky frames and
from database
output to database

Read event
from FZ file

Yes
On-off Apply software
mode ? padding

No

Subtract pedestals

Zero signals for

switched off PMTs

Apply picture/
boundary cleaning

Apply GCFs

Parametrise event

Output event time and

parameters to output file

No
End of
FZ file ?

Yes