Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2022/03/30

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 16th March

Saad Shaikh, Simon Jolly

Updated primary machine to macOS Monterey and Xcode 13.3 – all software functional.
Submitted MAPS Travel grant application.
Drafted IOP talk and gave practice presentation to group. Will be away at IOP conference first half of next week.
Accepted for an oral presentation at PTCOG!
- Becky has given approval to book travel.
Will talk to Dave Waters about securing funding extension due to Simon's absence.
Implemented realistic beam geometry in Geant4 simulation and Laurent's scintillator definition. Also able to count photons by photodiode.
- Will double-check scintillation definition with Jeremy.
- Stuck on how to implement dose scoring by layer in a thread-safe way – will discuss with Raffy.
- Ben Morgan at Warwick is a useful contact for Geant4 advice.