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Digitisation: Dynamic Range
5 x 1018 eV
blue color, 2-3 V/m/MHz is approximate detection threshold
you can scale amplitude linearly with energy
GRAND workshop, 9th February 2014
vertical
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Digitisation: Dynamic Range
Manchester SKA Workshop, 05/2015
intrinsic dynamic range within one shower can be > factor 10we want to cover at least two decades in primary energy, factor 100less than 8 effective bits would be a severe limitationthe Cherenkov ring (50 to 350 MHz) will be challengingwill quantify effects on Xmax resolution in simulation study (Anne)
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Buffer
buffer size needs to cover trigger latency: 10 ms
readout window needs to cover array diameter: 50 microsecondsup to full buffer size during thunderstorms?
buffer all antennas, but read-out fraction can be flexible
buffers also some antennas outside core
readout: target of opportunity? trickle down? deadtime?
Manchester SKA Workshop, 05/2015