CH Weekly Reports

09/19/22

• Investigated non-linearity of peak sensing ADC due to issues arising in energy calibrations and efficiency measurements.

• Modified existing calibration code to use non-linear regression to account for ADC.

• Sourced material needed for CaGaS Phase II setup.

• Calculated ADC dead time for live-time correction to efficiency measurement count rates and calculated dead time per experiment.

• Designed holder for Gd foils needed for CaGaS Phase II experiment. To be 3D printed and tested for tolerances.

09/26/22

• Printed both parts of the Gd foil holder for CaGaS Phase II.
  • Parts fit together more than adequately considering they're 3D printed and not machined.
  • M3 bolts threaded through first part of the holder.
  • M3 nuts press fitted into the second part of the holder.

• Edited rebinning code for energy calibrations for data sets collected with ADC to account for changes in calibration code.
  • Energy calibration script now uses 2nd order polynomial regression to account for nonlinearity of ADC
  • The coefficients from the regression are passed to another script to rebin ADC data from channel to energy, preserving bin count, but bin width will increase as a function of energy.

• Designed Gd₂O₃ powder holder for CaGaS Phase II.
  • Have spray on clear coat to seal plastic after printing is complete.

• Continued to research live time correction for HPGe count rates and think I have applied the correction correctly at the initial measurement level, which will be propagated through to efficiency calculations.

• Researched and tested different integration methods for more accurate measurement of counts in energy peak to compare to Gaussian fit.

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