FlashCam is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We compare camera trigger rates obtained from measurements with the camera prototype in the laboratory and Monte-Carlo simulations, when scanning the parameter space of the fully-digital trigger logic and the intensity of a continuous light source mimicking the night sky background (NSB) during on-site operation. The comparisons of the measured data results to the Monte-Carlo simulations are used to verify the FlashCam trigger logic and the expected trigger performance.
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@article{arxiv.1907.09220,
title = {Trigger performance verification of the FlashCam prototype camera},
author = {S. Sailer and F. Werner and G. Hermann and M. Barcelo and C. Bauer and S. Bernhard and M. Biegger and F. Canelli and M. Capasso and S. Diebold and F. Eisenkolb and S. Eschbach and D. Florin and C. Föhr and S. Funk and A. Gadola and F. Garrecht and I. Jung and O. Kalekin and C. Kalkuhl and T. Kihm and R. Lahmann and M. Pfeifer and G. Principe and G. Pühlhofer and S. Pürckhauer and O. Reimer and A. Santangelo and M. Scalici and T. Schanz and T. Schwab and S. Steiner and U. Straumann and C. Tenzer and A. Vollhardt and D. Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09220},
year = {2019}
}