ELogs/SaadShaikh

Electronic Log for Saad Shaikh

To Do

Last updated 04/06/20

Data analysis
- Shift HIT PDLs by WEPL of accelerator components/air and implement adaptive alpha/p calculation.
- Add information to PBT Wiki on how to take and analyse simulated and telescope data.
Detector simulation
- Rebuild Laurent's QUARC simulation.
- Improve accuracy of optical properties.
FPGA programming
- Xilinx University Programme content.
- Analyse datasheet for TI DDC232 to understand I/O signals and present report on timeline of operation.
- Write code to communicate Zybo Z7-10 with TI DDC232. Use Verilog code for TI DDC264EVM FPGA serial interface as reference.
- Find example code using Tera Term terminal emulator to get serial interface working from computer to Zybo.
Heavy-ion fitting
- Acquire HIT FLUKA tables for He, C and O beams.
- Re-read relevant papers and implement Kramer's model for protons.
- Implement Kramer's model for helium ions using cross-section formulae in Kramer 2016.
- Implement Kramer's model for carbon ions: get in touch with Lenny or Kramer to discuss how to obtain cross-section data.

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
Analysis of SOBP data, results shown in this presentation
Preliminary testing of 2nd order Birks' Law, 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.