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Tracks: The two detectors were one behind the other along the beam path. Thus if a signal is seen in a strip in the first detector, a signal should show up in the second detector on the corresponding strip. This should show up as a 45-degree diagonal in this plot, and it does. The fact that the diagonal is offset shows that the detectors had a relative offset of approximately 8 channels, or 1.6 mm. It is also clear that many channels never produce a good signal, or the diagonal would have had uniform density from one plot boundary to the other.