TY  - CONF
AU  - Tomás, R.
AU  - Cardona, J.F.
AU  - Carlier, F.S.
AU  - Coello de Portugal, J.M.
AU  - Dilly, J.
AU  - Esperante Pereira, D.
AU  - Fol, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia-Tabares, A.
AU  - Gonzalez-Iglesias, D.
AU  - Hoekstra, R.
AU  - Hofer, M.
AU  - Maclean, E.H.
AU  - Malina, L.
AU  - Persson, T.H.B.
AU  - Rodriguez, Y.
AU  - Skowroński, P.K.
AU  - Spitznagel, M.L.
AU  - Wegscheider, A.
AU  - Wenninger, J.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - LHC Optics Measurement and Correction Software Progress and Plans
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - LHC Optics Measurements and Corrections (OMC) require efficient on-line software applications to acquire and analyze data and to compute the necessary corrections. During Run 2 various measurement and correction techniques have been merged to yield unprecedented optics quality, increasing the required number of steps to finalize the optics commissioning and the size of the software project. In turn, this calls for a higher level of automation, where machine learning techniques are being implemented. During the Long Shutdown 2 a large refactoring of the codes will be in place to improve performance, maintainability and extensibility. A description of the current status of the software and future plans is given.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 2773
EP  - 2776
KW  - optics
KW  - software
KW  - coupling
KW  - MMI
KW  - GUI
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPGW116
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/wepgw116.pdf
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yap, J.S.L.
AU  - Bal, N.J.S.
AU  - Fransen, M.
AU  - Kacperek, A.
AU  - Linde, F.
AU  - Parsons, J.L.
AU  - Resta-López, J.
AU  - Schnuerer, R.
AU  - Welsch, C.P.
ED  - Boland, Mark
ED  - Tanaka, Hitoshi
ED  - Button, David
ED  - Dowd, Rohan
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Tan, Eugene
TI  - Beam Characterisation Using MEDIPIX3 and EBT3 Film at the Clatterbridge Proton Therapy Beamline
J2  - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
T2  - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3  - 10
LA  - english
AB  - The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) in the UK is a particle therapy facility providing treatment for ocular cancers using a 60 MeV passively scattered proton therapy beam. A model of the beamline using the Monte Carlo Simulation toolkit Geant4 has been developed for accurate characterisation of the beam. In order to validate the simulation, a study of the beam profiles along the delivery system is necessary. Beam profile measurements have been performed at multiple positions in the CCC beam line using both EBT3 GAFchromic film and Medipix3, a single quantum counting chip developed specifically for medical applications, typically used for x-ray detection. This is the first time its performance has been tested within a clinical, high proton flux environment. EBT3 is the current standard for conventional radiotherapy film dosimetry and was used to determine the dose and for correlation to fluence measured by Medipix3. The count rate linearity and doses recorded with Medipix3 were evaluated across the full range of available beam intensities, up to 3.12 x 10¹⁰ protons/s. The applicability of Medipix3 for proton therapy dosimetry is discussed and compared against the performance of EBT3.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 3510
EP  - 3513
KW  - proton
KW  - detector
KW  - simulation
KW  - radiation
KW  - experiment
DA  - 2019/06
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-95450-208-0
DO  - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPMP033
UR  - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thpmp033.pdf
ER  -