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== Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, | == Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 2nd July == | ||
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*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 Argon One V2 case on Raspberry Pi. | *Installed Argon One V2 case on Raspberry Pi. | ||
*FTDI script | *FTDI script uses 30-35% of CPU, probably maxing out 1 processor core. Performance issues likely due to lack of power. | ||
*Adding "-O3" optimisation flag when compiling FTDI script gives significant performance improvements on both Pi and Mac. | *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 4 modules, Mac now gives average time per read of 172us rather than 188us, with an integration time of 170us. | ||
Latest revision as of 13:18, 26 July 2021
Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 2nd July
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.
- Painted pairs will be stripped of paint again.
- Will paint 32 sheets for beam test with single coat of primer to be ready for beam tests.
- 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 uses slower Adaptive Singular algorithm 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 uses 30-35% of CPU, probably maxing out 1 processor core. Performance issues likely due to 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.
- Also observe improvement in frame rate of replay script with this flag. Fitting and plotting scripts are largely the same.
- Will install ROOT on Pi and compile fitting and plotting scripts.