Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2018/10/10

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meeting, 10th October 2018 (D17, Physics & Astronomy, UCL)

Present

Simon Jolly, Raffaella Radogna, Laurent Kelleter, Matthieu Hentz, Jeremy Ocampo, Ohie Mayenin, Saad Shaikh

SS:

• Working on Literature Review.
• Draft copy sent to SJ for review.
• To Do:
  • Literature review due in 22nd October.
  • Meet Tony Price on Friday.

OM:

• Working on Literature Review.
• To Do:
  • Will send outline to SJ.
  • Literature review due in 22nd October.

JO:

• Attending HEP lectures: HEP Monday and Tuesday, CDT Thursday.
• 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.
  • Look into new laptop.

MH:

• Battling with Geant4 to get output in same format as GATE.
• Issues with ROOT ntuples.
• To Do:
  • Write report: due 30th November. Talk will be 11th December.
  • Look into writing data to file in ROOT without continuously opening and closing file.
  • Make simulation multithreaded.
  • Proton imaging meeting with Medical Physics Monday 15th October.

RR:

• Looking into patent application process.
• Courses are available but current innovation courses currently only available for PhD students.
• To Do:
  • Understand detector operation from LK.
  • Contact Marina Fuentes Sainz and Vassilios Albanis to explore commercialisation.
  • Contact Derek Thomas to arrange access to labs.

LK:

• In email contact with Lennart Volz at HIT regarding upcoming experimental visit:
  • Helium and protons definitely available; possibly Oxygen and Carbon but will wait and see.
  • Need to run DAQ for PMT setup: will check whether we need digitiser or scope.
  • Will check with Lenny regarding mounting case to table.
  • Need to work out how to fit PMT in one of our cases.
• To Do:
  • Prepare for HIT Helium tests.