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To Do

MC Simulations

Dose Reconstruction

• Reconstructing UCLH 04-5/2024 QuADProBe Beam Test Dose Distributions - mainly SOBP and 3x3x7 cm^3 box field using TOPAS (via CVMFS on HEP Cluster) and FRED (locally for now, but eventually over Hypatia GPU cluster).
• Disagreement between depth dose curve for FRED and TOPAS (using default physics settings) - agreement in plateau but FRED has sharper and higher Bragg Peak
  • Only an issue when there's an energy spread in the pencil beam (i.e. PDD's agree almost perfectly for a mono energetic beam with no spread) - likely to do with energy straggling?
• Investigating physics lists and in touch with Maestro o attempt to solve discrepancy (currently taking TOPAS as ground truth)

QuARC & QuADProBe Geant4 Simulations

• Get Saads QuARC G4 simulation working
• Look at QuADProBe simulation from Raffy.

Fibres

• Consider potential ways of calibrating fibre to PD coupling.
  • Using Geant4 sim?
  • Scanning diode or uniform light source?
• Hassle Simon about Hamamatsu PD arrays !!!
• Prepare slides about DAQ systems for existing fibre / fibre array detectors

Conference Abstracts

• PTCOG - decided not to submit for standard but possibility of late breaking if have beam test beforehand
• PPRIG - submitted

Papers

• Possible paper on UCLH beam test MC reconstructions?