Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2018/10/17

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:

• Looking into patent application process.
• To Do:
  • Contact Marina Fuentes Sainz for more detail about patent applications.

LK:

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