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The computer dead-time (CDT) occurs during the process of writing the experimental data into computer disk.CODA stores each event by its trigger type separately and controls the recording rate by adjusting the pre-scale factor (PS). Then the computer dead-time is defined by comparing the number of events stored in the computer (Ntrigger) and the number of pre-scaled raw trigger events (Ntrigger/PS), which is recorded independently in the scaler information:
