Commit e55208ca authored by Paul Schütze's avatar Paul Schütze
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Merge branch 'p-digit-qdc' into 'master' 

DefaultDigitizer: reduce default QDC smearing to 0e

See merge request allpix-squared/allpix-squared!1195
parents 845d7d52 fb62f4b3

src/modules/DefaultDigitizer/DefaultDigitizerModule.cpp

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    // QDC configuration

    config_.setDefault<int>("qdc_resolution", 0);

    config_.setDefault<int>("qdc_smearing", Units::get(300, "e"));

    config_.setDefault<int>("qdc_smearing", Units::get(0, "e"));

    config_.setDefault<double>("qdc_offset", Units::get(0, "e"));

    config_.setDefault<double>("qdc_slope", Units::get(10, "e"));

    config_.setDefault<bool>("allow_zero_qdc", false);

src/modules/DefaultDigitizer/README.md

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* `saturation_mean`: Mean of the simulated front-end saturation charge, defaults to `190ke`. Only used if `saturation` is `true.`

* `saturation_width`: Width of the Gaussian distribution used to calculate the new charge value of the simulated front-end saturation, defaults to `20ke`. Only used if `saturation` is `true.`

* `qdc_resolution` : Resolution of the QDC in units of bits. Thus, a value of 8 would translate to a QDC range of 0 -- 255. A value of 0bit switches off the QDC simulation and returns the actual charge in electrons. Defaults to 0.

* `qdc_smearing` : Standard deviation of the Gaussian noise in the ADC conversion (after applying the threshold). Defaults to 300 electrons.

* `qdc_smearing` : Standard deviation of the Gaussian noise in the ADC conversion (after applying the threshold). Defaults to 0 electrons.

* `qdc_slope` : Slope of the QDC calibration in electrons per ADC unit (unit: "e"). Defaults to 10e.

* `qdc_offset` : Offset of the QDC calibration in electrons. In order to simulate a ToT (time-over-threshold) device, this offset should be configured to the negative value of the threshold. Defaults to 0.

* `allow_zero_qdc`: Allows the QDC to return a value of zero if enabled, otherwise the minimum value returned is one. Defaults to `false`. When enabled special care should be taken when analyzing data since charge-weighted cluster position interpolation might return unexpected results.