LhARA radiobiology; meeting: 14Jul25; 14:00 BST

Present: CW, RW, CP, EM, JMcG, AFR, CD, KL, DO

Notes

1. Minutes and actions:

• JP: Talk to Fisher and get a plan of action for the order and delivery of consumables to Strathclyde
  • STANDS

2. Strathclyde Updates: RG, RW, CW
   

• Laser damage and beamtime:
  • Damage also includes a vacuum pipe that needs fixing, defines a new schedule
  • New Schedule:
    • Week 1: Get back to where we were a month ago with correct laser delivery to the target.
    • Week 2: Re-establish and troubleshoot proton generation.
    • Week 3: Work with the quads and some diagnostic testing in the PoPLaR configuration.
      • Opportunity for a full bio walkthrough.
      • Double check the autoclave waste
      • Highly dependent on week 1 and week 2

• Bio-safety cabinets:
  • Recalibration still required and unsure of schedule

• RCF stack fiduciary:
  • Smaller stack proving to be tricky
  • Larger stack can be used as a viable back-up
  • Ken may be able to encourage CLF to help with smaller stack
  • Aligned with a cross-hair on carousel and a laser along the beam axis

6. Bioprep: EM/MH
   

9. DoNM
   • 22Jul25 14:00 BST

10. AoB
    
    • Present work to LhARA fortnightly tomorrow
      • CD: Updated SCAPA schedule
      • EM: Updates from latest experiment
      • CD: LMU work

Summary of actions

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