Detector Course Report

This is the LaTeX document and Python code for the can gas detector and semiconductor detector from the Nerdic Detector Course.

Run python scripts

Below is a hint on how to run the python scripts to produce desired output files:

HV scan plots

The script produces the high voltage (HV) scan plots using the .mca files in CanDetector/data/mca/. The scripts are hardcoded as they will not change. To produce the voltage scan plots and the overview of different gains and voltages one can simply run

./plot_HVscan.py

from CanDetector/scripts, which will produce the output files in CanDetector/graphics. With the additional flag

./plot_HVscan.py -s fe

only the iron plots are produced. Alternatively am can be used as a command line argument for the americium ones.

Compile report

The subdirectories CanDetector and SemiconductorDetector contain the files needed to compile the corresponding reports.

Can Detector

To compile the can detector a makefile is provided, therefore simply running:

make

in the directory is sufficient. For later iterations one needs to call

make cleanpdf

to remove the target PDF or make cleanall to remove all temporary LaTeX files as well.