Proton Calorimetry/Experimental Runs/2018/Mar22

Beam tests of the UCL plastic scintillator range calorimeter.

Night of Thursday 22th to Friday 23rd of March 2018

Pre-data Taking Information and Notes

• Data was acquired with the DSLR camera and the ISDI CMOS sensor.
• The average background value per pixel for the sensor is ~ 2500. The sensor pixel dimensions are 1030 x 1536. The sensor frame rate was always set to 25 frames per second.
• NO optical grease between scintillator and sensor.
• Beam is extracted over 5 seconds (one spill). The full capacity (100%) of the synchrotron ring is 1.2x1e10 protons.
• Scintillator stack arrangement: 15 x 2 mm, 15 x 2.6 mm and 1 x 3 mm sheets used: In ascending order from the back of the scintillator to the front/beam. Except for sheet number 21 (2mm) which is placed at the end (away end from the beam) of the stack because of a crack in the sheet.
• Folder for DSLR images: digiCamControl/20180322_medaustron
• Note: When powering on PC, sensor has to be connected, but unpowered!
• 16383 = saturation pixel number (16 bit x 1 tap)
• Sensor images are always saved as a sequence of 21 Tiff images
• Folder for sensor images: XCAP/data/20180322_medaustron

Data Taking

	DSLR		Sensor	Beam			Info		Thumbnails
Run number	Aperture	Exposure (s)	Full Well Mode	Intensity (%)	Number of particles/s	Beam Energy (MeV)	Test type	Comments	DSLR	Sensor
1	f/5	1s	Low	N/A			Background	Background run with ND filter		N/A
2	f/5	1s	Low	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	80.5	Bragg peak	ND filter in - not enough light passes through filter. Remove! DSLR slightly saturated. 10 spills used for this run.
3	f/8	1s	High	N/A			Background	No ND filter!
4	f/8	1s	High	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	80.5	Bragg peak
5	f/7.1	1s	N/A	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	80.5		No beam caught
6	f/7.1	1s	N/A	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	80.5		No beam caught
7	f/7.1	1s	N/A	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	80.5		Perfect for DSLR, saturating sensor
8	f/5	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	80.5		Good for sensor.77 mm of PMMA (11 sheets) in front of enclosure for calibration tests.
9	f/5.6	1s	N/A	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	80.5
10	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	85.6
11	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	85.6
12	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	62.4
13	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	62.4
14	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7	Spot Scan	Spot 1
15	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 2
16	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 3
17	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 4
18	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 5
19	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 6
20	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 7
21	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 8
22	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 9
23	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 10
24	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 11
25	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 12
26	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 13. Calibration spot for middle of scintillator that we align the beam to.
27	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 14
28	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 15
29	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 15. Repeat with beam with more intensity.
30	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7	Energy Scan	PMMA removed!
31	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	101.8
32	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	99.6
33	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	97.4
34	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	95.1
35	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	92.8
36	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	90.4
37	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	86.4
38	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	85.6
39	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	84.7
40	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	83.9
41	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	83.0
42	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	82.3
43	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	81.3
44	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	80.5
45	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	79.6
46	N/A		High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	78.7		Sensor saturation! Reduce intensity.
47	f/5.6	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	78.7
48	f/5.6	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	77.8
49	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	76.9
50	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	76.0
51	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	75.1
52	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	74.2
53	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	72.4
54	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	70.5
55	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	68.5
56	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	66.5
57	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	64.5
58	f/5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	62.4
59	f/7.1	1s	High	100%	1.2 x 1e10/5s	85.6	Intensity Scan
60	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	85.6
61	f/4.5	1s	High	20%	2.4 x 1e9/5s	85.6
62	f/3.2	1s	High	10%	1.2 x 1e9/5s	85.6
63	f/3.2	1s	Low	10%	1.2 x 1e9/5s	85.6		Sensor saturation!
64	f/3.2	5s	High	2.22%	2.66 x 1e8/5s	85.6		Factor 4.5 reduction
65	f/3.2	5s	Low	2.22%	2.66 x 1e8/5s	85.6
66	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7	Spot Scan	Spot 1. 77 mm of PMMA (11 sheets) in front of enclosure for calibration tests. Acquire 2nd spill of every spot.
67	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 2. 5 - 6 spills per spot. Column K shows the number of the spill recorded, starting at 0 with an empty spill, 1 - 1st spill of 1st spot, 2 - 2ns spill of 1st spot etc. So 7 is 2nd spill of 2nd spot.
68	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 3
69	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 4
70	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 5
71	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 6
72	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 7
73	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 8
74	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 9
75	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 10
76	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 11
77	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 12
78	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 13
79	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 14
80	f/5.6	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	252.7		Spot 15
81	f/3.2	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	99.6	Radiation damage assessment	56 mm of PMMA (8 sheets) in front of enclosure. In stack: 3 mm scintillator sheet and 2.6 mm sheet (from front of stack).
82	f/3.2	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	99.6
83	f/3.2	1s	High	50%	0.6 x 1e10/5s	99.6		Note: no beam seen at 86.4 MeV

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End of range telescope tests.