Aspinall, M. D. and D’Mellow, B. and Mackin, R. O. and Joyce, M. J. and Jarrah, Z. and Peyton, A. J. (2007) The empirical characterization of organic liquid scintillation detectors by the normalized average of digitized pulse shapes. Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, 578 (1). pp. 261-266. ISSN 0168-9002
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The application of the digital acquisition of pulses from a liquid scintillator to detector characterization is described. Experimental data for a mixed neutron/γ-ray field have been recorded digitally. An empirical method for the characterization of liquid scintillation detectors, in terms of their pulse shape, has been developed which is quick and easy. It provides generic pulses shapes for use in pulse-shape discrimination and that can be used to derive analytical descriptions of each pulse via an accepted six-parameter formulism. The distributions of the neutron and γ-ray components arising as a result of discrimination via pulse gradient analysis (PGA) follow a bi-Gaussian trend and exhibit degrees of both kurtosis and skew.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods A |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Liquid scintillators ; Digital ; Pulse-shape discrimination |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre Faculty of Science and Technology > Engineering |
| ID Code: | 39777 |
| Deposited By: | Mrs Yaling Zhang |
| Deposited On: | 18 Feb 2011 12:20 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 18:00 |
| Identification Number: | |
| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/39777 |
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