Abstract
Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) has been utilised for about 40 years as a method to obtain estimates for dose in mixed neutron and photon fields. Digitizers that operate close to GHz are currently available at a reasonable cost, and they can be used to directly sample signals from photomultiplier tubes. This permits one to perform digital PSD rather than the traditional, and well-established, analogoue techniques. One issue that complicates PSD for neutrons in mixed fields is that the light output characteristics of typical scintillators available for PSD, such as BC501A, vary as a function of energy deposited in the detector. This behaviour is more easily accommodated with digital processing of signals than with analogoue signal processing. Results illustrate the effectiveness of digital PSD.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 253-255 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Radiation protection dosimetry |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue number | 1-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2007 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Radiation
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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