Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2022/03/02

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 2nd February

Saad Shaikh, Simon Jolly

Awarded grant to attend Pisa conference.
- Asked for clarification on accommodation room type and how to claim money.
Awarded grant for MAPS EDI "Take Bold Action for Inclusion" project with PandA.
Applied for grant to attend XIX Seminar on Software for Nuclear, Subnuclear and Applied Physics, which has a beginners course on GEANT4.
Will apply for MAPS travel funding grant to pay for Pisa flights, and CALOR registration and accommodation.
Discussed revisions to Rev. C board with Marko to correct pin-mapping and heating problems.
- Will hold-fire on manufacture of new boards until some lab tests have been completed.
Will email Derek and Connor to ask about drilling fibre holes into new 3mm scintillator sheets.
Progress with GEANT4: implemented scintillator stack and photodiode geometry in fully multi-threaded simulation with visualisation using default material definitions of polystyrene and silicon.
- Simulation scores total dose in detector with protons.
- Next step is to implement realistic proton beam spot size and score dose on a sheet-by-sheet basis.
- Will also investigate building high-resolution Bragg curve.
- Material and scintillation definitions will likely need to be more detailed.