Data analysis of digitized spark chambers

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS 20

(1963)

413,

NORTH-HOLLAND PUBLISHING CO

D A T A A N A L Y S I S OF DIGITIZED SPARK C H A M B E R S F KRIENEN

C E R N , Geneva A b s t r a c t of p r e s e n t e d p a p e r

The d a t a h a n d l i n g of the i n f o r m a t i o n w r i t t e n in the memories of the dlgltxzed spark c h a m b e r previously described 1) m a y be conmdered in three steps The first step is concerned with the reado u t procedure in which the onglnal reformation 1) F

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is t r a n s f e r r e d to a fast access i n t e r m e d i a t e m e m o r y The second step deals with the reconstruction of a n event The t h i r d step m a y decide af the e v e n t is a " g o o d " event P a r t or all of the logic to be performed to decade on a good event, m a y be done in a computer, the dividing lane c o n s h t u t e s a n interesting problem

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