Driftless gas proportional scintillation counter pulse analysis using digital processing techniques
A driftless gas proportional scintillation counter (GPSC) of simple design, using digital pulse-signature analysis, is described. The digital pulse acquisition and processing techniques are shown to be a simple and effective method to determine pulse time duration and to perform pulse amplitude corr...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10316/8211 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/8211 |
| Summary: | A driftless gas proportional scintillation counter (GPSC) of simple design, using digital pulse-signature analysis, is described. The digital pulse acquisition and processing techniques are shown to be a simple and effective method to determine pulse time duration and to perform pulse amplitude correction in driftless GPSCs. This technique allows the application of driftless GPSCs to x-ray spectrometry up to 60 keV. Although the pulse throughput achieved by the digital pulse-height analyser in this application is limited to about 2 kHz, total interaction rates above 20 kHz can be tolerated by the detector without significant degradation of the pulse-height distributions obtained. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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