Software tool for performing the calibration of the AT-TPC electronics channels

"The Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC), developed at the National Superconducting CyclotronLaboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University, is a gas-based system that serves a dual role of a target and detector medium for nuclear physics experiments. Active target devices have gained much attention within the past dedicate due to their high resolution and efficiency to study reactions with very exotic nuclei. With the use of incident beam energy ranging from low (1-10 MeV/u) to medium (10-100 MeV/u) to extract the physical properties of nuclei far from stability, the AT-TPC is contributing significantly to experimental nuclear science, thanks to its high luminosity working capability without loss of resolution and low-energy detection thresholds that enable experiments with beam intensities as low as 102 pps. Because of its unique features, a dedicated python based data analysis tool was developed to extract information from this detector. This software tool allows to calibrate the electronic baselines, amplitudes and times of the signals recorded by each of the AT-TPC pads relative to each other. The statistical analysis of the aforementioned calibrated parameters shows the coefficient of the fluctuations of the order of 9.1 % and 8.8 % for the baselines , 3.43 % and 4.8 % for the amplitudes and 45 ns and 34 ns for the time from the big and small pads respectively from all 24 events taken during the pulse run."--Page ii.