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Ugly Event Contest!

SCDMS Collaboration meeting, January 2015

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Scary LF noise

Passes cGoodEv_v53, cLiveTime_v53_LT, & cAnalysisThreshold_v53_LT

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Castles made of sand

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Chargequake?

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The Scoundrel!

passes cGoodEV_v53

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Skate Board Park?

passes cGoodEV_v53

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25 keV Mountain Range

Passes cGoodEv_v53

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Glitch/LF noise double jeopardy

Passes cGoodEv_v53

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Ghost Glitch

Passes cGlitch: ntrigq = 0!

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Shark Fin ?! KO15 Run87

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T1/T2 Squares

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Bad DMC quiescent state: Ski jump

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Bad DMC quiescent state:

Hey, this looks like square pulses from Soudan...

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Veto saves the day (passes cGoodEv_v53 and cLiveTime_v53_HT on 1,3,8,11,)

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Vampire Fang Charge

UMN test facility

Bad Cf-252 high energy event

“Normal” Cf-252 high energy event

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Just a little Noisey

UMN test facility

Bad Ba-133 low energy event

“Normal” Ba-133 low energy event

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Upside down

Passes cGoodEv and cLiveTime except cGoodRandomChi2

ptNF = 8.4 keV!

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I Don’t Know What to Call it

Test Facility

Everything looks good.

Weird neutralization effects.

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Adjust the Rabbit Ears

Test Facility

Stable temperature.

The temperature started rising in the middle of the scan.

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Amplifiers Oscillate, and Oscillators Amplify

Test facility

Good noise spectrum.

The amplifier started to oscillate.

You really need to listen to how it sounds.

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Twin Peaks

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DMC total phonon pulse with absorption constants set to weird values

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DMC total phonon pulse with weird TES circuit parameters

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Noisy noiseless DMC pulse with all normal parameter values set

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In case you were curious, this is what happens when you turn off a FEB crate

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Are WIMPs Square Pulses?

T2Z2 event passing all quality and FV cuts for the R133 low-threshold analysis, including the BDT. So… have we been looking for WIMPs in the wrong place all these years?

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Janky Rainbow

UMN Test Facility

Bad Event

Normal Test Event

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Heibai Wuchang (Chinese version of Soul Reapers)

Cell phone in RF room while taking data.

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Maybe-Later Wiggle

cGoodEv_v53 &

cLiveTime_v53_HT &

~cRandom_133 &

~cInRunRandom_133

And….

Timing RQs are inconsistent �(GPS vs EventTimeRQ)

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Winners

Test Facility Category

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3rd place: Katrina

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2nd place: Robert

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1st place: Allison

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