Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2022/03/30

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 30th March

Present

Saad Shaikh, Simon Jolly

Saad Shaikh

• Was ill for most of last week.
• 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.