Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

A simple, highly economical particle identification method based on pulse shape analysis

Journal Article · · Bulletin of the American Physical Society
OSTI ID:243860

A simple pulse processing concept is presented which allows one to achieve a high-quality pulse-shape discrimination using two charge-integrating ADC channels with common, liberal gating. A two-transistor implementation of the concept is described and the results of its application tests with an NE213 liquid scintillator detector (neutron-gamma discrimination) as well as with a CsI(Tl) scintillator (p, d, and t discrimination) are discussed. High quality of the achieved discrimination, an extremely low cost, simplicity, and compactness of the electronics circuit, as well as its ease of setup, high stability, and reproducibility make the described method a natural choice for various multi-detector devices, such as liquid-scintillator neutron spectrometers, CsI(Tl) light charged particle detector arrays or fast-slow phoswich arrays.

DOE Contract Number:
FG02-88ER40414
OSTI ID:
243860
Report Number(s):
CONF-9304297--
Journal Information:
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Physical Society Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 38; ISSN 0003-0503; ISSN BAPSA6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

LabVIEW Data Acquisition for NE213 Neutron Detector
Technical Report · Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2003 · OSTI ID:815655

LabVIEW DAQ for NE213 Neutron Detector
Technical Report · Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2003 · OSTI ID:815656

Fast-Neutron Detector with Discrimination against Background Radiation
Journal Article · Sat Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1963 · Rev. Sci. Instr. · OSTI ID:4135278