LAT in a Beam
| Tower Simulator | High Rate Beam | Comments | |
| Realistic high rate | No | Yes | BFEM debug required high rate AND detector connected |
| Hit multiplicity | Yes by lowering thresholds can drive any rate or occupancy one wants (can also be done with random pulse generator + ext trigger) | Yes | In tower simulator hit distribution is
random.
Lowering thresholds does not address software filtering (MC + random hits may help but not ideal) |
| Hit distribution | No | Yes | single event's data is concentrated on 1 or 2 towers which move around randomly |
| Event Volume | No | Yes | Individual events have widely varying hit distributions |
| Pattern recognition | Maybe | Yes | Loading MC data in tower simulator not enough |
| Analog effects
(pile-up in high trigger rates) |
No
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Yes
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| Analog effects
(recovery of railed amplifiers for very large signals) |
No
|
Yes
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| flexibility | Yes | No | |
| schedule and cost | Reasonable | Significant Impact | |