ELogs/SaadShaikh

Electronic Log for Saad Shaikh

To Do

Last updated 30/03/20

Set up Eclipse to work with ROOT on Windows partition of DAQ laptop.
Assist Raffaella in photodiode front-end development of new detector prototype.
Add information to PBT Wiki:
- How to analyse simulated data and data taken from telescope to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves.
- How to take data with scintillator stack coupled to CMOS sensor.

Date	Event
22/06-25/06	ENLIGHT (Cancelled)

Review of literature given by Laurent
Delivered MSci presentation to PG Physics Society.
Set up environment in Eclipse for analysis code to fit Bortfeld and quenched Bortfeld Bragg curves to simulated data and data from range telescope.
- Tested analysis routines on simulated and raw data.
HEP PG courses in term 1: SM1, SM2 & topics in particle physics.
Medical physics course in term 1: Treatment with Ionising Radiation.
Passed Standard Model exams: 80% SM1 and 48% SM2.
Analysis of effects of beam spot size on range reconstruction from April 2019 HIT data, also with photodiode approximation. Results shown in this presentation
Medical physics courses in term 2: Radiotherapy Physics & Medical Imaging with Ionising Radiation.
Installed GEANT4 locally on MacOS High Sierra and Catalina, set up environment in Eclipse.
- Can successfully run simulation of range telescope with different parameters and analyse output data.
Fully implemented Laurent's analysis code and made improvements for better code practice, better parameter estimation and started framework for He and C fitting.
Analysis of performance of quenched Bortfeld model with heavy ions, results shown in this presentation

Literature review.
First Birmingham experimental run.
Wrote code to load and plot Caen digitiser data in histograms.
Overhauled LeCroy data analysis routines: (short region) double baseline sigma testing, dynamic integration window allocation, empty acquisition checks.
Wrote code to scale and plot LeCroy & Caen data onto single plot, using approximate x and y-scale factors.
Wrote code to load and plot PRaVDA data in 2D histograms.
Wrote code to correlate tracker and calorimeter measurements, to produce a list of events with X, Y, E coordinates.
Wrote code to plot matched events into various 3D histograms: XY, XE, YE.
Progress report.
Progress interview.
Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding x-scale factor through chi-square minimisation.
All runs from first Birmingham put through matching algorithm. Energy spectra, 2D tracker histograms, and 3D XY, XE & YE histograms plotted for all runs (187 plots).
Wrote code to plot 3D XY histograms, but with the height of bars being the average energy in the bin.
Improved LeCroy & Caen matching by finding y-scale factor through chi-square minimisation or through peak event counting. Peak event counting method best.
Converted energy to range in XYE histogram.
Plotted 2D number density histogram alongside 3D XYRange histogram.
Produced poster for PPRIG 2019 of experiment with single-module calorimeter and PRaVDA tracker.
Attended PPRIG 2019.
Completed MSci Final report.
Delivered presentation on project.
Attended PTCOG 2019.