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Title: Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector

Abstract

DTAS is a segmented total absorption γ-ray spectrometer developed for the DESPEC experiment at FAIR. It is composed of up to eighteen NaI(Tl) crystals. In this work we study the performance of this detector with laboratory sources and also under real experimental conditions. We present a procedure to reconstruct offline the sum of the energy deposited in all the crystals of the spectrometer, which is complicated by the effect of NaI(Tl) light-yield non-proportionality. The use of a system to correct for time variations of the gain in individual detector modules, based on a light pulse generator, is demonstrated. We describe also an event-based method to evaluate the summing-pileup electronic distortion in segmented spectrometers. All of this allows a careful characterization of the detector with Monte Carlo simulations that is needed to calculate the response function for the analysis of total absorption γ-ray spectroscopy data. In conclusion, special attention was paid to the interaction of neutrons with the spectrometer, since they are a source of contamination in studies of β-delayed neutron emitting nuclei.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [2];  [4];  [4];  [4] more »;  [9];  [5];  [10];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [11];  [2];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [4];  [12];  [4];  [2];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [13];  [2];  [6];  [4];  [9];  [5] « less
  1. CSIC-Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain); Univ. de Nantes, Nantes (France)
  2. CSIC-Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
  3. CSIC-Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain); Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen (Hungary)
  4. Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla (Finland)
  5. Univ. de Nantes, Nantes (France)
  6. Univ. Complutense, Madrid (Spain)
  7. Istanbul Univ., Istanbul (Turkey)
  8. CSIC-Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain); Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom)
  9. Institut de Physique Nucleaire d’Orsay, Orsay (France)
  10. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Madrid (Spain)
  11. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
  12. Univ. of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom)
  13. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1489748
Report Number(s):
BNL-210845-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 910; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; β decay; Total absorption; γ-ray spectrometer; Exotic nuclei; NaI(Tl) detector; Non-proportional scintillation light yield; Monte Carlo simulations

Citation Formats

Guadilla, V., Tain, J. L., Algora, A., Agramunt, J., Äystö, J., Briz, J. A., Cucoanes, A., Eronen, T., Estienne, M., Fallot, M., Fraile, L. M., Ganioğlu, E., Gelletly, W., Gorelov, D., Hakala, J., Jokinen, A., Jordan, D., Kankainen, A., Kolhinen, V., Koponen, J., Lebois, M., Le Meur, L., Martinez, T., Monserrate, M., Montaner-Pizá, A., Moore, I., Nácher, E., Orrigo, S. E. A., Penttilä, H., Pohjalainen, I., Porta, A., Reinikainen, J., Reponen, M., Rice, S., Rinta-Antila, S., Rubio, B., Rytkönen, K., Shiba, T., Sonnenschein, V., Sonzogni, Alejandro A., Valencia, E., Vedia, V., Voss, A., Wilson, J. N., and Zakari-Issoufou, A. -A. Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.001.
Guadilla, V., Tain, J. L., Algora, A., Agramunt, J., Äystö, J., Briz, J. A., Cucoanes, A., Eronen, T., Estienne, M., Fallot, M., Fraile, L. M., Ganioğlu, E., Gelletly, W., Gorelov, D., Hakala, J., Jokinen, A., Jordan, D., Kankainen, A., Kolhinen, V., Koponen, J., Lebois, M., Le Meur, L., Martinez, T., Monserrate, M., Montaner-Pizá, A., Moore, I., Nácher, E., Orrigo, S. E. A., Penttilä, H., Pohjalainen, I., Porta, A., Reinikainen, J., Reponen, M., Rice, S., Rinta-Antila, S., Rubio, B., Rytkönen, K., Shiba, T., Sonnenschein, V., Sonzogni, Alejandro A., Valencia, E., Vedia, V., Voss, A., Wilson, J. N., & Zakari-Issoufou, A. -A. Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.001
Guadilla, V., Tain, J. L., Algora, A., Agramunt, J., Äystö, J., Briz, J. A., Cucoanes, A., Eronen, T., Estienne, M., Fallot, M., Fraile, L. M., Ganioğlu, E., Gelletly, W., Gorelov, D., Hakala, J., Jokinen, A., Jordan, D., Kankainen, A., Kolhinen, V., Koponen, J., Lebois, M., Le Meur, L., Martinez, T., Monserrate, M., Montaner-Pizá, A., Moore, I., Nácher, E., Orrigo, S. E. A., Penttilä, H., Pohjalainen, I., Porta, A., Reinikainen, J., Reponen, M., Rice, S., Rinta-Antila, S., Rubio, B., Rytkönen, K., Shiba, T., Sonnenschein, V., Sonzogni, Alejandro A., Valencia, E., Vedia, V., Voss, A., Wilson, J. N., and Zakari-Issoufou, A. -A. Wed . "Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1489748.
@article{osti_1489748,
title = {Characterization and performance of the DTAS detector},
author = {Guadilla, V. and Tain, J. L. and Algora, A. and Agramunt, J. and Äystö, J. and Briz, J. A. and Cucoanes, A. and Eronen, T. and Estienne, M. and Fallot, M. and Fraile, L. M. and Ganioğlu, E. and Gelletly, W. and Gorelov, D. and Hakala, J. and Jokinen, A. and Jordan, D. and Kankainen, A. and Kolhinen, V. and Koponen, J. and Lebois, M. and Le Meur, L. and Martinez, T. and Monserrate, M. and Montaner-Pizá, A. and Moore, I. and Nácher, E. and Orrigo, S. E. A. and Penttilä, H. and Pohjalainen, I. and Porta, A. and Reinikainen, J. and Reponen, M. and Rice, S. and Rinta-Antila, S. and Rubio, B. and Rytkönen, K. and Shiba, T. and Sonnenschein, V. and Sonzogni, Alejandro A. and Valencia, E. and Vedia, V. and Voss, A. and Wilson, J. N. and Zakari-Issoufou, A. -A.},
abstractNote = {DTAS is a segmented total absorption γ-ray spectrometer developed for the DESPEC experiment at FAIR. It is composed of up to eighteen NaI(Tl) crystals. In this work we study the performance of this detector with laboratory sources and also under real experimental conditions. We present a procedure to reconstruct offline the sum of the energy deposited in all the crystals of the spectrometer, which is complicated by the effect of NaI(Tl) light-yield non-proportionality. The use of a system to correct for time variations of the gain in individual detector modules, based on a light pulse generator, is demonstrated. We describe also an event-based method to evaluate the summing-pileup electronic distortion in segmented spectrometers. All of this allows a careful characterization of the detector with Monte Carlo simulations that is needed to calculate the response function for the analysis of total absorption γ-ray spectroscopy data. In conclusion, special attention was paid to the interaction of neutrons with the spectrometer, since they are a source of contamination in studies of β-delayed neutron emitting nuclei.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.001},
journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
number = C,
volume = 910,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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