In the old hitfinder, deconvolution is done seperately in the time and pad directions. The switches that control the time deconvolution are TRFF and DECON.


Comparison 1

Take a look at some of the spectrum fragments shown here, deconvoluted with the three switch settings listed above.

What I see is that TRFF=2 and DECON=2 either (1) fits a little better than TRFF=1, or (2) fits a lot worse. Case (2) is fairly rare, but you will find some examples below. When TRFF=2 fails, it does so spectacularly. However, this happens when the pulse is wide, and the TRFF=1 peaks are rejected for being too wide. Based on this comparison, it is hard to say conclusively which is better.


Comparison 2

However, it is clear that TRFF=2/DECON=1 is the worst situation, so we exclude that.

Looking at the spectra from the comparison above, we wondered if the constraints on the two sigma parameters are messing up the TRFF=2/DECON=2 fits.

By default, and in the comparison above, the constraints are sig1_hi = 3, sig2_hi=5, as provided in the HIT_SW table.

In this, comparison, we look only at TRFF=1/DECON=1 vs TRFF=2/DECON=2, but we have loosened the cuts to sig1_hi = 6, sig2_hi = 10.

From this comparison, it is pretty clear that TRFF=2/DECON=2 is better.

Also in this comparison, I have "enriched" the spectrum sample so we can look at some spectra with many peaks. Unfortunately, many of our "multiple-peak" spectra result from poor pedestal subtraction, to which the two deconvoluters react differently (TRFF=2/DECON=2 seems more robust to this).