Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2016/10/12

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meeting, 12th October 2016 (D17, Physics & Astronomy, UCL)

Present

Simon Jolly, Ruben Saakyan, Anastasia Basharina-Freshville, Laurent Kelleter, Andreas Christou, Matthieu Hentz, Adam Knoetze

MH:

• Working through tutorials on PBT Wiki.
• Issues with starting PBT environment: can’t find OpenGL sometimes when connecting from OS X Terminal.
  • Suggestions to try XQuartz; also check from HEP Linux PC.
  • Problem tracked down to XQuartz v2.7.9: downgrade to v2.7.8 solved issue (replicated by ABF and SJ).
• Working on Literature Review.

AC:

• Working through ROOT Tutorials: going to stick with ROOT over PyROOT unless there's a specific need.
• Will start looking at ADC data and fitting: ABF explained the differences between waveform fit and ADC spectrum fit.
• Will start with ADC spectrum fitting: has some old Python code with fitting that can be recycled.

AK:

• Writing literature review.
• Having trouble converting LeCroy binary to text files in Python: can't truncate number of decimal places or format when writing to text file.
• Will speak to Ben Waugh about Python text exporting.

LK:

• Finished running through the Geant4 PBT tutorials.
• Managed to get ABF’s SuperNEMO Optical Module simulations working on SLC5.
• Not yet working on SL6: will speak to Lawrence Deacon about errors (Issue with gmake).
• Will look at results on SLC5 before moving to SL6 to make some plots for comparison.
• Once ABF's OM simulations are running on SL6, will start to look at segmented calorimeter simulations.

SJ still needs to contact Andrzej Kacperek at Clatterbridge and colleagues at PSI/MedAustron to arrange next experimental visits...