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== To Do == | |||
Last updated 17/03/20 | |||
=== High Priority === | |||
*Investigate extensions to Bortfeld model to incorporate nuclear interactions | |||
*Familiarise with GEANT4 | |||
*Run Vivado tutorials with Zybo Z7 board | |||
=== Low Priority === | |||
*Set up Eclipse to work with ROOT on Windows partition of DAQ laptop. | |||
*Assist Raffaella in photodiode front-end development of new detector prototype. | |||
*Add information to PBT Wiki: | |||
** Analysis routines to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves to simulated data and data taken from telescope. | |||
** How to take data with scintillator stack coupled to CMOS sensor. | |||
==PhD Year 1 Completed== | |||
*Review of literature given by Laurent | |||
*Delivered MSci presentation to PG Physics Society. | |||
*Set up environment in Eclipse for analysis code to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves to simulated data and data from range telescope. | |||
*Tested analysis routines on simulated and raw data. | |||
*HEP PG courses in term 1: SM1, SM2 & topics in particle physics. | |||
*Medical physics course in term 1: Treatment with Ionising Radiation. | |||
*General improvements to analysis code for ease of use/legibility. | |||
*Analysis of effects of beam spot size on range reconstruction from April 2019 HIT data, also with photodiode approximation. | |||
*Installed GEANT4 locally on MacOS High Sierra and Catalina, successfully ran simulation of range telescope. | |||
*Medical physics courses in term 2: Radiotherapy Physics & Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation. | |||
== Dates 2020 == | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! style="text-align: center;" | Date | |||
! style="text-align: center;" | Event | |||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | 22/06-25/06 | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | ENLIGHT | |||
|} | |||
== MSci Completed == | |||
* Literature review. | |||
* First Birmingham experimental run. | |||
* Wrote code to load and plot Caen digitiser data in histograms. | |||
* Overhauled LeCroy data analysis routines: (short region) double baseline sigma testing, dynamic integration window allocation, empty acquisition checks. | |||
* Wrote code to scale and plot LeCroy & Caen data onto single plot, using approximate x and y-scale factors. | |||
* Wrote code to load and plot PRaVDA data in 2D histograms. | |||
* Wrote code to correlate tracker and calorimeter measurements, to produce a list of events with X, Y, E coordinates. | |||
* Wrote code to plot matched events into various 3D histograms: XY, XE, YE. | |||
* Progress report. | |||
* Progress interview. | |||
* Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding x-scale factor through chi-square minimisation. | |||
* All runs from first Birmingham put through matching algorithm. Energy spectra, 2D tracker histograms, and 3D XY, XE & YE histograms plotted for all runs (187 plots). | |||
* Wrote code to plot 3D XY histograms, but with the height of bars being the average energy in the bin. | |||
* Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding y-scale factor through chi-square minimisation or through peak event counting. Peak event counting method best. | |||
* Converted energy to range in XYE histogram. | |||
* Plotted 2D number density histogram alongside 3D XYRange histogram. | |||
* Produced poster for PPRIG 2019 of experiment with single-module calorimeter and PRaVDA tracker. | |||
* Attended PPRIG 2019. | |||
* Completed MSci Final report. | |||
* Delivered presentation on project. | |||
* Attended PTCOG 2019. |
Revision as of 12:27, 18 March 2020
Electronic Log for Saad Shaikh
To Do
Last updated 17/03/20
High Priority
- Investigate extensions to Bortfeld model to incorporate nuclear interactions
- Familiarise with GEANT4
- Run Vivado tutorials with Zybo Z7 board
Low Priority
- Set up Eclipse to work with ROOT on Windows partition of DAQ laptop.
- Assist Raffaella in photodiode front-end development of new detector prototype.
- Add information to PBT Wiki:
- Analysis routines to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves to simulated data and data taken from telescope.
- How to take data with scintillator stack coupled to CMOS sensor.
PhD Year 1 Completed
- Review of literature given by Laurent
- Delivered MSci presentation to PG Physics Society.
- Set up environment in Eclipse for analysis code to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves to simulated data and data from range telescope.
- Tested analysis routines on simulated and raw data.
- HEP PG courses in term 1: SM1, SM2 & topics in particle physics.
- Medical physics course in term 1: Treatment with Ionising Radiation.
- General improvements to analysis code for ease of use/legibility.
- Analysis of effects of beam spot size on range reconstruction from April 2019 HIT data, also with photodiode approximation.
- Installed GEANT4 locally on MacOS High Sierra and Catalina, successfully ran simulation of range telescope.
- Medical physics courses in term 2: Radiotherapy Physics & Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation.
Dates 2020
Date | Event |
---|---|
22/06-25/06 | ENLIGHT |
MSci Completed
- Literature review.
- First Birmingham experimental run.
- Wrote code to load and plot Caen digitiser data in histograms.
- Overhauled LeCroy data analysis routines: (short region) double baseline sigma testing, dynamic integration window allocation, empty acquisition checks.
- Wrote code to scale and plot LeCroy & Caen data onto single plot, using approximate x and y-scale factors.
- Wrote code to load and plot PRaVDA data in 2D histograms.
- Wrote code to correlate tracker and calorimeter measurements, to produce a list of events with X, Y, E coordinates.
- Wrote code to plot matched events into various 3D histograms: XY, XE, YE.
- Progress report.
- Progress interview.
- Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding x-scale factor through chi-square minimisation.
- All runs from first Birmingham put through matching algorithm. Energy spectra, 2D tracker histograms, and 3D XY, XE & YE histograms plotted for all runs (187 plots).
- Wrote code to plot 3D XY histograms, but with the height of bars being the average energy in the bin.
- Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding y-scale factor through chi-square minimisation or through peak event counting. Peak event counting method best.
- Converted energy to range in XYE histogram.
- Plotted 2D number density histogram alongside 3D XYRange histogram.
- Produced poster for PPRIG 2019 of experiment with single-module calorimeter and PRaVDA tracker.
- Attended PPRIG 2019.
- Completed MSci Final report.
- Delivered presentation on project.
- Attended PTCOG 2019.