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* Working with ISU Environmental Health & Safety to set up time to treat and coat lead bricks to build CaGaS Phase II setup.  
 
* Working with ISU Environmental Health & Safety to set up time to treat and coat lead bricks to build CaGaS Phase II setup.  
 
** Air monitoring and respirators are required per ISU EH&S safety protocols.
 
** Air monitoring and respirators are required per ISU EH&S safety protocols.
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* Designed and printed a holder for Cs137 calibration source for storage in lab (signed off with RSO) for easy point calibrations using HPGe.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:17, 9 October 2022

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 adequately considering they're 3D printed and not machined.
    • M3 bolts threaded through first part of the holder.
    • M3 nuts pressed into the second part of the holder.
    • Parts printed out of PETG plastic with low density infill (10%).
  • 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.
      • End goal is to pass coefficients into rebinning function and draw energy calibrated plot in the same script.
  • Designed Gd2O3 powder holder for CaGaS Phase II.
    • Have spray on clear coat to seal plastic after printing is complete in hopes that powder will not stick between printed layers when used.
  • Documented Gd holders in wiki with rendered images and a description of intended use.
  • 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.
  • Created tentative list of committee members with major advisor for PhD proposal defense and future dissertation defense.

10/03/22

  • Sat in on 30 minute proposal defense presentation by another Ph.D. candidate.
  • Began the 3D print of Gd2O3 holder for CaGaS Phase II.
    • Both parts printed and fit together tightly. Need to be sealed for use with powder.
    • Updated wiki documentation with images of the holders.
  • Working with ISU Environmental Health & Safety to set up time to treat and coat lead bricks to build CaGaS Phase II setup.
    • Air monitoring and respirators are required per ISU EH&S safety protocols.
  • Designed and printed a holder for Cs137 calibration source for storage in lab (signed off with RSO) for easy point calibrations using HPGe.

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