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Message ID: 68     Entry time: Fri Oct 7 10:42:52 2016
Author: JL Tain et al 
Subject: Noise 
We investigate the effect on the noise in ORNL tubes of using a differential PA.

We connect the tubes in current PA10 (126-140) to one of the new diff PA
and connect the output to converter card #4 which is connected to ADC3 (and ADC4).

First a short run with 252Cf for setting the right parameters and the calibration
file: 161007_1743_252Cf_ORNL_diffPreamp.root

Then we make a background run
file: 161007_1743_bck_ORNL_diffPreamp.root

As can be seen in the figure the effect of the differential preamp is to
compress the noise down to 100keV, becoming more similar to
the situation of the RIKEN tubes.

Thus it will be beneficial to use Diff PA. However as we can only setup one
because we have only one spare Diff-Unip converter card, we decided not to
use it as the impact will be very low and implies a lot of changes.
However one must remember that since we are always going to require coincidence
with betas during the measurement this noise should have no effet.
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