Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2020/12/02

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 2nd December

Simon Jolly, Raffaella Radogna, Saad Shaikh, Fern Pannell

Took further measurements at UCL with Raffy using DDC232 board. Office measurements still noisy, so need to figure out how to shield electronics.
- Will take light measurements at home using UV torch.
Created live version of Laurent's ROOT quenched Bragg fit – tested with data from HIT April 2019 converted into hexadecimal format to simulate photodiode data.
- Can achieve roughly 3.5 FPS if binned fit is not chosen.
- Will see if macro can be optimised further.
USB interface will require using libftdi on Windows, in order to use ILA for debugging while capturing data. Currently unsure if this is possible.
Will compare readout speeds of DDC232, DDC316 and DDC118 for full size detector, assuming 1:1 photodiode to input mapping.
Laptop has been purchased using Raffy's hardware grant. Simon still happy for me to keep it. :)
- Remaining £1k from HEP could be put towards a laptop later down the line.

Need to get Java file outputting dummy data straight into a directory on the HEP server
- Should make debugging the GUI code easier; behaves differently with local data