Workshops

2016

22.11.-23.11. in Bergen

Agenda

Tuesday, 22.11.: Presentations

09.00 Bergen pCT – Dieter

09.30 Padua pCT – Piero

10.00 Beam test results with FOCAL prototype - Helge

11.15 Simulations – Ilker (+ Helge + Jarle)

12:00 Software infrastructure – Boris

13.30 Proton CT reconstruction, Helge E. S. Pettersen

Hardware

14.00 Radiation levels - Jarle

14.45 Hardware: sensors, mechanical & electrical integration

15.15 Readout concept - Haakon

Wednesday, 23.11.: Hands-on

09.00 pCT simulation & pCT reconstruction software

Minutes: File:pCT_planning_Nov_2016.pdf

• ASK slides direct here or link to new page
• Monte Carlo code overview and comparison, Ilker Meric

2017

15.09. in Bergen

Agenda

Friday, 15.09.: Presentations

09.00 – 09.20 WP5 – Chip integration onto PCBs (D. Röhrich)

09.20 – 10.10 WP1 – Monte Carlo simulations for the optimization of detector geometry (H. E. S. Pettersen)

10.10 – 10.35 WP1 – Monte Carlo simulations of the expected radiation environment, Jarle Rambo Sølie (Slide 17 and 18 contains new flux calculations for the FPGAs)

10.30 – 10.40 Break

10.40 – 11.00 WP3 – Initial considerations for the pCT readout (O. Grøttvik)

11.00 – 11.45 WP7 – Most likely path (MLP) estimation (M. Richter)

11.45 – 12.00 WP5 – Potential cooling schemes (H. Shafiee)

12.00 – 12.30 Lunch break

12.30 – 14.00 WP meetings (Each WP plans activities for the rest of the year)

14.00 – 16.00 Group discussion (meeting back in the bachelor room)

• WP5 - Potential cooling schemes & heat transfer, Hesam Shafiee

06.11 - 07.11 in Bergen / Meeting with UU

Monday, 06.11., room 456, IFT:

09:30 – 10:15 General Overview (Dieter)

10:15 – 11:15 Detector layout specification (Helge)

11:30 – 12:00 Radiation environment (Jarle)

13:00 – 16:00 Mounting of chips on PCBs

• ITS wire bonding technique
• Alternative technique - tab bonding, chipcable (Ton, Slava, Ihor)

Tuesday, 07.11., room 456, IFT:

09:00 – 12:00 Discussions on mechanical aspects of the pCT prototype

• Potential Cooling Schemes for the pCT prototype (Hesam)

13:00 – 14:00 Interface to readout electronic (Ola)

14:00 – 16:00 Towards a FoCal prototype

07.03 Wednesday (Teaching lab 260, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen)

2018

07 - 08.03 in Bergen

07.03 Wednesday (Teaching lab 260, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen)

09.30 – 09.45 Welcome (Dieter R.)

09.45 – 10.15 Sensor characterization; beam test results of sensor chips (Andreas S. , data from Australia / Susmita A., Viljar E., data from Oslo, WP2)

10.15 – 10.45 Latest on the detector simulations / Detector design specs. (Helge)

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.30 Initial MLP implementations / considerations (Jarle)

11.30 – 12.00 Updates on computing environment / DAQ system (WP4)

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.00 Updates on the mechanical design: support structure + cooling (Hesam)

14.00 – 15.00 Updates on the development of read-out electronics (WP3)

15.00 – 16.00 Outlook and discussions

08.03 Thursday (Bachelorrommet, 3rd floor, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen)

09.30 – 10.30 Short presentations of the ongoing MSc projects with relevance to the pCT-project

10.30 – 11.30 Activities of Kharkiv team for pCT/FoCal projects: current status (Ihor T.)

11.30 – 12.00 Introduction to topological data analysis (Nello B.)

12.00 – 12.30 Discussions on applications of topological data analysis to pCT

12.30 – 16.00 Rest of the day is reserved for WP-meetings. Those WPs with interdependencies should have meetings with each other to clarify challenges and plan activities.

16.04 - 17.04 in Bergen

16.04 Monday (Room 513, 5th floor, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen)

10.00 - 11.30 Overview and status of the Bergen proton CT project (Dieter Röhrich)

11.30 - 12.00 Status of simulation efforts and modeling (Jarle Rambo Sølie)

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.00 Guided tour of micro-electronics lab

14.00 - 14.30 Status of the readout (Ola S. Grøttvik)

14.30 - 15.00 Status of beam tests

15.00 - 15.30 ALPIDE Characterization (Monika Varga-Kofarago)

17.04 Tuesday (Room 513, 5th floor, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen)

10.00 - 11.00 Presentation of the Wigner Research Center (Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi)

11.00 - 14.00 Upcoming (prototyping, DAQ and analysis software, beam tests (HIT, ANSTO, ...))