Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2018/10/17

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Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meeting, 17th October 2018 (D17, Physics & Astronomy, UCL)

Present

Simon Jolly, Raffaella Radogna, Laurent Kelleter, Jeremy Ocampo, Ohie Mayenin, Saad Shaikh, Fernando Franco Felix

FFF:

  • Introduced himself to everybody.

MH:

  • Off sick with the man flu.
  • Managed to run a reconstruction using data from Geant4 simulation.
  • Currently investigating how similar the images are to the reconstructions obtained using Gate.
  • Working on implementing a multi-threaded run manager in my simulation.

OM:

  • Working on Literature Review.
  • To Do:
    • Will send draft to SJ 18/10/18.
    • Literature review due in 22nd October.

SS:

  • Working on Literature Review.
  • Draft copy sent to SJ for review: SJ promises he will send back comments today...
  • Held Skype meeting with Tony Price:
    • Possible visit to Birmingham cyclotron 25/26 October.
    • TP to advise on possibility of visit and cyclotron availability.
    • Measure energy spectrum of beam.
    • TP will make Bragg peak measurement before we start.
  • To Do:
    • Literature review due in 22nd October.
    • Speak to Ruben Saakyan and Anastasia Basharina-Freshville about setting up PMT, particularly self-trigger threshold.
    • Chase up LeCroy about PMT trigger dead time.

JO:

  • Attending HEP lectures: HEP Monday and Tuesday, CDT Thursday.
  • Will send laptop specs to SJ.
  • To Do:
    • Chase up Medical Physics/CDT courses: MH sure that Numerical Optimisation course is a great foundation for Inverse Problems.
    • Meeting arranged with Jamie McClelland and Adam Gibson on 18th October.

RR:

LK:

  • Organising Heidelberg trip.
  • Working on build-up simulation paper.
  • Rerunning Geant4 simulations with CentOS 7 environment.
  • To Do:
    • Measure height of scintillator stack.