trigger rate and channel rate do not match if used in single trigger mode with one detector

[musner]

when only connecting one scintillation plate (e.g. to channel 0) and setting the trigger to single, one would expect that the channel 0 rate and the trigger rate match exactly. This is the case for low rates but there are mismatches if the rates are comparably high (>100Hz).

[hpbretz]

Rates of >100Hz should be cases where the Threshold is set too low and the rate is mostly noise. Maybe the DAQ card gives a wrong count in these cases. Is the trigger rate too low or too high?

[musner]

Rates > 100 Hz was actually a false statement from memory. It was more around 20-30 Hz. I attached a plot. The trigger rate was too small. It did seem to happen with a defect PMT though, so it might have been a hardware problem. But even if the PMT was unstable, should this mismatch really occur?

[hpbretz]

I don't think it should, but this appers to be a problem of the DAQ, not muonic. In prinicple, muonic just asks the daq every 5s to give a count of the channels and the trigger, substracts the last count for each value and divides it by the time difference. If this happens again or can be reproduced, I would look into it again, otherwise chalk this up to a problem with the DAQ.