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SpecTcl is the NSCL's event data analysis tool used for online and offline data analysis during experiments involving the S800 spectrograph. The documentation is accessible at: http://docs.nscl.msu.edu/daq/spectcl/
The SpecTcl Control has been adapted for special functions required for the analysis of S800 data. Fig xxx shows the GUI control of the S800 analysis.
The inverse map which enables the trajectory reconstruction of the particles within the spectrograph beam line can be loaded. Snapshots of CRDC and TPPAC events sampled in the pads and strips can be viewed. If this option is “armed”, the sample is read out for the first event that falls into the specified gate. This is a diagnostics tool to analyze the response of the CRDCs and TPPACs.
The TreeParameter class provides a mean to implement parameters in SpecTcl in a tree-like structure and without the need to specify parameter identification numbers. The parameters are referred to by their names only, which at the same time indicate their location in the tree. This reference mechanism is valid for both the coding part of SpecTcl (C++ code) and the interpreter part (Tcl/Tk shell). It eliminates the confusion induced by the use of numerals to refer to the parameters, and allows the user to organize the parameters in a logical fashion.
(to be set on the “Variables” page of the GUI) for the CRDCs (n=1,2 for crdc1 and crdc2):
The following figures depict some of the S800 SpecTcl spectra used for the tunning of the S800.