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**Might require some optimisation of numerical parameters to correct this. Will investigate, but might be that "slow, accurate, non-live" fit use slower Adaptive Singular to draw curves.
**Might require some optimisation of numerical parameters to correct this. Will investigate, but might be that "slow, accurate, non-live" fit use slower Adaptive Singular to draw curves.
*Organised new inventory and beam test equipment into new DeWalt tower – tower kept in D109.
*Organised new inventory and beam test equipment into new DeWalt tower – tower kept in D109.
*Installed
*Installed Argon One V2 case on Raspberry Pi.
*FTDI script doesn't max out CPU on Pi or cause temperature to rise significantly – performance issues not due to a lack of power.
*Adding "-O3" optimisation flag when compiling FTDI script gives significant performance improvements on both Pi and Mac.
**With 4 modules, Mac now gives average time per read of 172us rather than 188us, with an integration time of 170us.
**With 2 modules, Pi down to 200us from 750us. Still observe some freezes during acquisitions, but far fewer than before.
*Will install ROOT on Pi and run fitting.


=== [[ELogs/FernPannell|Fern Pannell]] ===
=== [[ELogs/FernPannell|Fern Pannell]] ===
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Revision as of 10:28, 5 July 2021

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 23rd June

Present

Simon Jolly, Saad Shaikh, Fern Pannell

Saad Shaikh

  • Painted 4 scintillator sheet pairs:
    • Sheets 48 & 23 with primer – one layer to glue pair.
    • Sheets 54 & 1 with appliance – one layer to glue pair.
    • Sheets 52 & 11 with appliance and then primer to glue pair – 10-15 mins for appliance layer to dry.
    • Sheets 53 & 2 with appliance and then primer to glue pair – 30-40 mins for appliance layer to dry.
  • Neither combination gives acceptable results: lots of gaps in paint layer due to either inconsistencies in sheet thickness, placement misalignment or paint reaction.
    • Placement of sheets when glueing is difficult: not much room to adjust once placed as this ruins paint layer.
  • New fitting routine using Gauss–Legendre algorithm and Fumili minimiser implemented into photodiode scripts.
    • New routine gives reasonable results where default options either fail or give strange fit results.
    • With a given set of fit results, Gauss–Legendre draws Bortfeld curve slightly differently compared to default Adaptive Singular algorithm.
    • Might require some optimisation of numerical parameters to correct this. Will investigate, but might be that "slow, accurate, non-live" fit use slower Adaptive Singular to draw curves.
  • Organised new inventory and beam test equipment into new DeWalt tower – tower kept in D109.
  • Installed Argon One V2 case on Raspberry Pi.
  • FTDI script doesn't max out CPU on Pi or cause temperature to rise significantly – performance issues not due to a lack of power.
  • Adding "-O3" optimisation flag when compiling FTDI script gives significant performance improvements on both Pi and Mac.
    • With 4 modules, Mac now gives average time per read of 172us rather than 188us, with an integration time of 170us.
    • With 2 modules, Pi down to 200us from 750us. Still observe some freezes during acquisitions, but far fewer than before.
  • Will install ROOT on Pi and run fitting.

Fern Pannell