Behavior of a trapezoid-based data acquisition system up to 100 kHz and beyond

Stefan Schmidt; Tanja Heftrich; Jan Glorius; Gabriele Hampel; Ralf Plag; René Reifarth; Zuzana Slavkovská; Kerstin Sonnabend; Christian Stieghorst; Norbert Wiehl; Stephan Zauner

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.051

Behavior of a trapezoid-based data acquisition system up to 100 kHz and beyond

Instrumentation and Detectors 2016-11-30 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Authors: Stefan Schmidt , Tanja Heftrich , Jan Glorius , Gabriele Hampel , Ralf Plag , René Reifarth , Zuzana Slavkovská , Kerstin Sonnabend , Christian Stieghorst , Norbert Wiehl , Stephan Zauner

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Abstract

In this work, we investigated the ability of a high-purity germanium detector connected to a trapezoid-filter-based data acquisition system to reliably record signals in spite of high sample activities. By activating multiple Na $_{2}$ CO $_{3}$ samples with different Na content, we were able to deduce efficiency, resolution and dead time of the system used as a function of the sample activity. Based on the results, we were able to find a setting which allows measurements of event rates up to 35~kHz per readout channel with an energy resolution of 0.3\% at the 2754 keV $^{24}$ Na line.

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high-purity germanium detector trapezoid-filter-based data acquisition high sample activity energy resolution dead time event rate

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@article{arxiv.1611.09739,
  title  = {Behavior of a trapezoid-based data acquisition system up to 100 kHz and beyond},
  author = {Stefan Schmidt and Tanja Heftrich and Jan Glorius and Gabriele Hampel and Ralf Plag and René Reifarth and Zuzana Slavkovská and Kerstin Sonnabend and Christian Stieghorst and Norbert Wiehl and Stephan Zauner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09739},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Behavior of a trapezoid-based data acquisition system up to 100 kHz and beyond

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