 Mon Oct 24 16:07:22 2022, Dylan Wells, Creating the matching circuit design
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The first part of designing the matching crictuit was choosing a frequency range to match over. We chose 100 MHz to 1000 MHz.
The geometric mean of this range in 316.227 MHz, which is the ideal frequeny to match to.
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Fri Sep 2 12:40:17 2022, Alan S, Ice Shell Around Bicone 
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Here is a PDF with a summary/log of my work trying to integrate an ice shell surrounding the bicone antennas in the GENETIS loop. I made gain
patterns of the ARA bicone with the ice shells and without them, showing the impact of the ice on the antenna's gain. Having an ice shell
changes these patterns, which are also dependent on the radius of the shell. I showed that convergence on the gain patterns and expected features start |
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Thu Aug 18 13:03:47 2022, Dylan Wells, Comparing inputs and outputs between AraSim and IceMC
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Comparing Inputs:
Frequency Lists:
Ara - 83.33MHz - 1066.70 MHz, step = 13.33MHz |
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Thu Aug 18 10:32:17 2022, Amy, reading about HPol antennas
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Here are some reading materials about HPol antennas:
This paper discusses some initial HPol designs that were tested in a prototype station of ARA.
We went with the slotted cylinder design. |
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Tue Aug 16 11:41:07 2022, Dylan Wells, Instructions for Running IceMC
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Running IceMC:
Go into the directory ../anitaBuildTool/build/components/icemc/ |
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Wed Aug 10 22:38:20 2022, Dylan Wells, Instructions for Installing IceMC
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Installing IceMC:
I: Getting anitaBuildTool
Clone the anitaBuildTool repository (https://github.com/anitaNeutrino/anitaBuildTool) |
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Tue Aug 9 15:28:50 2022, Ryan Debolt, How many individuals to use in the GA.
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One of our foundational questions tied to the optimization of the GA has been "How many individuals should we simulate". Up to now, our minds
were made up for us by the speed of arasim being great enough that the time cost of simulating individuals was great enough that the improvements made
from having more were not enough to justify the slowdown. However, with the upgrade to the faster, more recent version of arasim, I decided to re-examine |
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Tue Aug 9 11:36:24 2022, Ryan Debolt, GA User guide (pdf)
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Fri Aug 5 09:59:07 2022, Dennis Calderon, Updated Effective Volumes and Errors (Paper Run and Curved Sides)
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Update to previous ELOG post for Effective Volumes and Errors for AraSim simulations for antennas from Paper_Run and Curved_Sides.
AraSim version compiled ~11/2021 and the (old) GENETIS version
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Fri Jul 15 18:33:20 2022, Alex M, Run Details: 2022_07_15_Latest_Greatest
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We have started a new run. Here is the directory: /fs/ess/PAS1960/BiconeEvolutionOSC/BiconeEvolution/current_antenna_evo_build/XF_Loop/Evolutionary_Loop/Run_Outputs/2022_07_15_Latest_Greatest
This run is a substantial overhaul. It is a curved run using the latest parameters from Ryan's optimization loop. Here is a list of important
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Fri Jul 8 13:35:19 2022, Ryan Debolt, Multigenerational Narrative draft 2
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The second-best individual in this evolution was Bicone 22 from generation 40. This individual is, in fact, a fascinating case as we shall
see. But to start the story of this individual we will go back to generation 38 in order to demonstrate some of the peculiarities.
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Fri Jul 8 13:34:08 2022, Ryan Debolt, Multigenerational Narrative draft 2
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Thu Jun 30 13:04:48 2022, Ryan Debolt, Multigenerational Narrative draft 2
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This is a multigenerational tracing of our second-best individual's parents and children:
The second-best individual in this evolution was
Bicone 22 from generation 40. This individual is, in fact, a fascinating case as we shall see. But to start the story of this individual we will go back |
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Tue Jun 28 13:27:13 2022, Dylan Wells, Changes needed for the matching circuit script
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Fix the functions for the SLPC, SCPL, and PLSC L networks (change the paramaters to match with the format of
our data)
Write the PCSL function |
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Tue Jun 28 12:49:53 2022, Dennis Calderon, Effective Volumes from AraSim: Curved Sides and Straight Sides (Paper Run)
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Summary of results for 3million event simulations in AraSim with both GENETIS version and more recent {~11/2021) version.
Using errors for effective volume from the .out files.
Example shown below. |
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Tue Jun 28 11:40:32 2022, Alex M, Run Details: Machtay_20200911_Symmetric
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This was a symmetric run that began on 9/11/2020. This run used fewer neutrinos to determine how significant the number would be on the performance of
the evolution. 30,000 neutrinos were used per individual.
10 individuals were evolved over 35 generations, using 100% roulette selection and the old mutation algorithm, where genes had a 40% chance of |
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Tue Jun 28 11:35:15 2022, Alex M, Run Details: Machtay_20200831_Asym_Length_and_Angle
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This run was conducted beginning on August 31, 2020.
Both the angle and length were asymmetric for the two cones. It was run with 10 individuals over 42 generations using 150,000 neutrinos. A penalty
was still implemented on bicones exceeding the borehole width. |
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Tue Jun 21 13:20:41 2022, Ryan Debolt, Multigenerational Narrative draft
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The story of individual 8 from generation 18. (draft)
Once, there was a curved bicone named individual 8 who was from generation 18. In many ways, it was similar to many other bicones |
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Tue Jun 21 12:22:02 2022, Alex M, Run Details: Machtay_20200827_Asym_Length_Run
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This run followed the first symmetric run. It had an asymmetric length, but the opening angle and inner radius were kept symmetric.
10 individuals were evolved over 17 generations using 100,000 neutrinos. All selection was done through roulette, and all individuals were formed
through crossover and the old mutation method (where individual genes had a 40% to be mutated, and mutated genes were chosen from a gaussian based on the |
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Tue Jun 21 12:15:18 2022, Alex M, Run Details: Machtay_20200824_Real_Run
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This is considered to be the first run of "good" data. Prior to this run, we ran with few neutrinos and had errors which needed to be
resolved in AraSim and with the way we handled XFdtd's simulation results being passed to AraSim. Those were resolved in the summer before this run.
This was a symmetric run of 10 individuals over 15 generations using 100,000 neutrinos per individual. This preceded the substantial modifications |