scholarly journals Deriving depth-dependent light escape efficiency and optical Swank factor from measured pulse height spectra of scintillators

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 847-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Howansky ◽  
Boyu Peng ◽  
Anthony R. Lubinsky ◽  
Wei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Height ◽  
Escape Efficiency

Energy-dependent dead-time correction in digital pulse processors applied to silicon drift detector's X-ray spectra

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 484-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suelen F. Barros ◽  
Vito R. Vanin ◽  
Alexandre A. Malafronte ◽  
Nora L. Maidana ◽  
Marcos N. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Dead Time ◽  
Pulse Height ◽  
Height Distribution ◽  
Pulse Height Distribution ◽  
Dead Time Correction ◽  
Time Model ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Digital Pulse ◽  
Analytical Correction ◽  
Energy Dependent

Dead-time effects in X-ray spectra taken with a digital pulse processor and a silicon drift detector were investigated when the number of events at the low-energy end of the spectrum was more than half of the total, at counting rates up to 56 kHz. It was found that dead-time losses in the spectra are energy dependent and an analytical correction for this effect, which takes into account pulse pile-up, is proposed. This and the usual models have been applied to experimental measurements, evaluating the dead-time fraction either from the calculations or using the value given by the detector acquisition system. The energy-dependent dead-time model proposed fits accurately the experimental energy spectra in the range of counting rates explored in this work. A selection chart of the simplest mathematical model able to correct the pulse-height distribution according to counting rate and energy spectrum characteristics is included.

Measurements of pulse-height defect in AuSi detectors for H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Ar, Kr from ≈2 to ≈ 400 keV/nucleon

1978 ◽  
Vol 154 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.M. Ipavich ◽  
R.A. Lundgren ◽  
B.A. Lambird ◽  
G. Gloeckler
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Height

THE RESOLUTION CORRECTION IN THE SCINTILLATION SPECTROMETRY OF CONTINUOUS X RAYS

1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 1624-1633 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Dixon ◽  
J. H. Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Integral Equation ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Analytical Procedure ◽  
Pulse Height ◽  
Matrix Inversion ◽  
Height Distribution ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Smooth Solutions ◽  
Pulse Height Distribution

The problem of making resolution corrections in the scintillation spectrometry of continuous X rays is discussed. Analytical solutions are given to the integral equation which describes the effect of the statistical spread in pulse height. The practical necessity of making some kind of numerical analysis is pointed out. Difficulties with numerical methods arise from the fact that the observed pulse-height distribution cannot be defined precisely. As a result it is possible in practice only to find smooth "solutions". Additional difficulties arise if the numerical method is based on an invalid analytical procedure. For example matrix inversion is of doubtful value in making the resolution correction because there does not appear to be an inverse kernel for the integral equation in question.

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