Chamber efficiencies - run 1071

Tom Jenkins (JENKINS@CWAPHY.PHYS.CWRU.EDU)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:58:57 -0500 (EST)

I have run my efficiency program on run 1071. Things are looking better but
overall, efficiencies are not up to where they were last summer. All but 124 are
over 90% efficiency but only nine are over 95% efficiency. Last summer (run 939,
for example) 19 chambers had efficiny > 95% and the minimum was 92.6%.

Looking at the pulse height distributions in the Michigan chambers, generally
the median pulse height is at or above what it was last summer with one notable
exception - chamber 112 has a median pulse height of 57, about half of what I
would like to see.

Chambers 105-108 have improved greatly as a result of the higher voltage.

efficiency...
run 1056 run 1071

105 89.1% 96.3%
106 74.6% 92.2%
107 60.8% 94.2%
108 68.0% 93.9%

As has been true in the past, inefficiencies occur in pockets in the chambers
which have overall low efficiency. In order of decreasing severity, I find the
following bad areas:

Chamber wires

124 48-112
123 64-96
115 64-80
101 48-64
... etc.

More details can be found in ~tlj/run_anal/R1071.WLS

Tom