Run 9 SSA Scaler Reading Problem
I'm noticing something disturbing in how I've been reading scaler files from board 11 and board 12. The inputs to these boards are the same as in Run 6, so I should be able to use the same code to extract the PMT information from bits 0 - 15, to read out the inner tiles. However, something weird happens.
When I look at the intensity versus bx7 for a run in Run 6--namely 7097105--I get this plot:
Looks reasonable to me (I see the yellow and blue abort gaps for example). But when I run the same code over last night's run, 10056162 board 12, I get the following:
The intensity fluctuates back and forth rapidly over the course of a bxing, which just looks wrong to me.
Possibilities:
1) Somehow the program I use for Run 6 is okay but is broken in Run 9, even though it's the same code and the same scaler inputs
2) Something very odd happened during this run last night,
3) ?
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