3. Tutorial

This step-by-step tutorial will help a user getting started with ABCD and getting acquainted with the system. The tutorial starts from the installation steps. It progresses into an overview of the user interface and then it starts to introduce more specific implementation details of ABCD.

• 3.1. Installation
  • 3.1.1. Download
  • 3.1.2. Packages installation
  • 3.1.3. Manual installation
    • 3.1.3.1. Compilation
    • 3.1.3.2. Ubuntu package(s) generation and installation
  • 3.1.4. Vendors libraries
    • 3.1.4.1. CAEN digitizers
    • 3.1.4.2. SP Devices
    • 3.1.4.3. Digilent
    • 3.1.4.4. Red Pitaya
• 3.2. Getting acquainted with a simulated experiment
  • 3.2.1. Launching a replay
  • 3.2.2. The digitizer interface page
  • 3.2.3. The waveforms display pages
  • 3.2.4. The waveforms analysis page
  • 3.2.5. The saving data page
    • 3.2.5.1. Using the data saver
    • 3.2.5.2. Information displayed during data saving
  • 3.2.6. The spectrum calculator page
    • 3.2.6.1. Pulse Shape Discrimination calculation
    • 3.2.6.2. Time decay of spectra
    • 3.2.6.3. Plotting controls
    • 3.2.6.4. The channels configuration
    • 3.2.6.5. Missing spectra of active channels
  • 3.2.7. The Time-of-Flight (ToF) calculator page
    • 3.2.7.1. Plotting controls
    • 3.2.7.2. The channels configuration
  • 3.2.8. Shutting down ABCD
• 3.3. Analysis of saved data files
  • 3.3.1. Conversion of events files to ASCII
  • 3.3.2. Plotting energy spectra
  • 3.3.3. Plotting Pulse Shape Discrimination diagrams
  • 3.3.4. Studying timestamps
  • 3.3.5. Dependency of the energy spectrum on time
  • 3.3.6. Calculating Time-of-Flights
  • 3.3.7. Waveforms displaying
• 3.4. Advanced topic: writing a startup script
  • 3.4.1. Starting up approach
  • 3.4.2. Environment variables
  • 3.4.3. Installation verification
  • 3.4.4. tmux session startup
  • 3.4.5. Web-server for the user interface
  • 3.4.6. Loggers
  • 3.4.7. Time-of-Flight calculation module
  • 3.4.8. Coincidences calculations and data streams generation
  • 3.4.9. Data saving modules
  • 3.4.10. Spectra calculation modules
  • 3.4.11. Starting the data replay
  • 3.4.12. Conclusion
• 3.5. Advanced topic: writing a simple waan library
  • 3.5.1. Introduction to the library
  • 3.5.2. Preamble of the library
  • 3.5.3. Parameters
  • 3.5.4. Analysis function
  • 3.5.5. Analysis algorithm
  • 3.5.6. Output
  • 3.5.7. Compilation