| Date |
Who |
Time |
Comments on Task |
Next Step
|
| 10/6/2014 |
Kyle |
2 Hours |
Prepared new environment for the simulation in order to have a fresh sandbox to manipulate |
Add in new geometry for a stopping material
|
| 10/8/2014 |
Kyle |
2.5 Hours |
Added a third volume to the simulation and played with different materials; Separated the scintillators |
Find a way to track if a positron was shot
|
| 10/10/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
3 Hours |
Learned how the detector gun works: Run->Event->Step |
Add number of positrons to an accessible data structure
|
| 10/15/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
2.5 Hours |
Dr. Brash aided in creating inherited methods that allow us to see if a positron was found per event; Added to an Ntuple |
Create a program to graph Thickness of Material vs. # of Positrons
|
| 10/17/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
3 Hours |
Learned how to change the trigonometry of the set-up along with the cosine squared distribution |
Begin taking data to be graphed
|
| 10/20/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
2 Hours |
Tried to turn off the Multithreading in Geant4 by installing a new version; simplify file I/O |
Find a better way to manipulate files in multithreading mode
|
| 10/20/2014 |
Thomas |
2.5 Hours |
Constructed the world section |
Started working on the detector geo.
|
| 10/22/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
2 Hours |
Manipulation of older graphing programs to access Ntuple values |
Take official data run of lead thickness
|
| 10/22/2014 |
Thomas & Cory |
2.5 Hours |
Prepared the Envelope section on the wiki and learned the World/Envelope relationship |
Add to the "Specifying Materials"
|
| 10/24/2014 |
Kyle & Tommy |
2.5 Hours |
Began to comment confusing sections of code to make manipulation easier |
Communicated structure of the program to other team members
|
| 10/24/2014 |
Thomas |
2.5 Hours |
Finished Detector Geometry will add information when necessary. |
Start the section of the run process and all the sections having to do with simulation run in Geant4
|
| 10/26/2014 |
Thomas |
2.5 Hours |
Kyle explained what an event/run/step was so that I could start the construction of the Run section |
Keep working on the run section
|
| 11/3/2014 |
Thomas |
2.0 Hours |
Finishing up the PrimaryGeneratorAction |
Adding onto the GeneratorAction section while also adding to the main() method section
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