Report on the 20150409 run

** Report on the 20150409 Am run **

The run 20150409 was a long run, collecting 20M events over eight days of continuous running. I did an analysis on a file-by-file basis, each file roughly encompassing a single running day, collecting 2.5M events per file.

I was mostly interested in how the parameters (most noteably energy resolution) change over such long periods. Here detector warm-up might play a key role, and I expect a slow rise.

The analysis was performed according to processing procedure described previously.

Am spectrum 2 Am spectrum 2 Am spectrum 2 Am spectrum 3 Am spectrum 4 Am spectrum 5 Am spectrum 6 Am spectrum 7 Am spectrum 8

Interestingly enough, trend is not what I expected. Here is the plot

resolution graph

The resolution actually gets better. Each point can be nearly exactly identified with a day: 0 is Thu, Apr8, 3 is Sun, Apr12, and 8 is Fri, Apr17, and there is little correlation with weekend or weather, as the weather was stable (sunny, warm). There are probably other effects which weren't monitored (ambiental activity) which govern the resolution.

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