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Traditionally, neutron-$\gamma$ discrimination in organic scintillators relies on techniques such as time-of-flight (ToF) selection and pulse-shape discrimination (PSD). However, particle identification through graphical cuts remains…

A series of test experiments on three different Si-based neutron detectors, namely a 1-d 128 channel, 0.5 mm space resolution Si microstrip sensor coupled to natural Gd converter, a medium size ? 1 cm2 PIN diode coupled to nGd2O3 or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-04 G. Mauri , M. Mariotti , F. Casinini , F. Sacchetti , C. Petrillo

Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is one of the most distinctive features of liquid scintillators. Since the introduction of the scintillation techniques in the field of particle detection, many studies have been carried out to characterize…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 H. O. Back et al.

The scintillation mechanism in NaI:Tl crystals produces different pulse shapes that are dependent on the incoming particle type. The time distribution of scintillation light from nuclear recoil events decays faster than for electron recoil…

Discrimination of the detection of fast neutrons and gamma rays in a liquid scintillator detector has been investigated using digital pulse-processing techniques. An experimental setup with a 252Cf source, a BC-501 liquid scintillator…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-12-08 P. -A. Söderström , J. Nyberg , R. Wolters

We report on the results of the positional-dependent pulse shape discrimination (PSD) parameter observed within a monolithic CLLB scintillation crystal. CLLB, a relatively novel inorganic scintillation crystal, is capable of PSD between…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-16 Richard S. Woolf , Bernard F. Phlips , Anthony L. Hutcheson , Andrew D. Maris , Eric A. Wulf

In beam test experiments have been carried out for particle identification using digital pulse shape analysis in a 500~$\mu$m thick Neutron Transmutation Doped (nTD) silicon detector with an indigenously developed FPGA based 12 bit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-09 K. Mahata , A. Shrivastava , J. A. Gore , S. K. Pandit , V. V. Parkar , K. Ramachandran , A. Kumar , S. Gupta , P. Patale

Digitization of detector signals enables analysis of the original waveform to extract timing, particle identification, and energy deposition information. Here we present the use of analytical functions based on sigmoids to model and fit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-23 F. Q. L Friesen , C. R. Howell

The LaBr3:Ce scintillator has been widely studied for nuclear spectroscopy because of its optimal energy resolution (<3%@ 662 keV) and time resolution (~300 ps). Despite these promising properties, the intrinsic radiation background of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 Ming Zeng , Jirong Cang , Zhi Zeng , Xiaoguang Yue , Jianping Cheng , Yinong Liu , Junli Li

In this contribution we report on further investigations of the recently-evaluated Constant-Fraction Time-over-Threshold (CF-ToT) method for neutron/gamma-ray pulse shape discrimination (PSD). The superiority of the CF-ToT PSD method over…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 A. Roy , D. Vartsky , I. Mor , C. Boiano , S. Brambilla , S. Riboldi , E. O. Cohen , Y. Yehuda-Zada , A. Beck , L. Arazi

The Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) of the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is designed to measure cosmic ray charge (Z) and to act as a veto detector for gamma-ray identification. In order to fully exploit the charge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Peng-Xiong Ma , Yong-Jie Zhang , Ya-Peng Zhang , Yao Li , Jing-Jing Zang , Xiang Li , Tie-Kuang Dong , Yi-Zhong Fan , Shi-Jun Lei , Jian Wu , Yu-Hong Yu , Qiang Yuan , Chuan Yue , Zhi-Yu Sun

Fast digitisers and digital pulse processing have been widely used for spectral application and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) owing to their advantages in terms of compactness, higher trigger rates, offline analysis, etc. Meanwhile, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Jirong Cang , Tao Xue , Ming Zeng , Zhi Zeng , Hao Ma , Jianping Cheng , Yinong Liu

In a dedicated test setup at the Kamioka Observatory we studied pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in liquid xenon (LXe) for dark matter searches. PSD in LXe was based on the observation that scintillation light from electron events was…

A Bayesian approach is proposed for pulse shape discrimination of photons and neutrons in liquid organic scinitillators. Instead of drawing a decision boundary, each pulse is assigned a photon or neutron confidence probability. This allows…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-03-06 Mateusz Monterial , Peter Marleau , Shaun Clarke , Sara Pozzi

A novel algorithm for the discrimination of neutron and {\gamma}-ray with wavelet transform modulus maximum (WTMM) in an organic scintillation has been investigated. Voltage pulses arising from a BC501A organic liquid scintillation detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-18 Yang yun , Liu guofu , Yang jun , Luo xiaoliang

A monitoring system for fast neutrons is planned in the COSINE experiment, a dark matter experiment with NaI crystals. We pursued several R&D approaches for a neutron detector using a liquid scintillator (LS). A pulse shape discrimination…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-25 G. Adhikari , P. Adhikari , C. Ha , E. J. Jeon , K. W. Kim , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. J. Ko , H. S. Lee , J. Lee , M. H. Lee , R. H. Maruyama , S. L. Olsen , H. Prihtiadi

There is a key research issue to accurately select out neutron signals and discriminate gamma signals from a mixed radiation field in the neutron detection. This paper proposes a fractal spectrum discrimination approach by means of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Mingzhe Liu , Bingqi Liu , Zhuo Zuo , Lei Wang , Guibin Zan , Xianguo Tuo

It is very important to measure the plasma performances of fusion reactors such as fuel ion density, plasma temperature, fusion power, fast neutron energy, and neutron flux. Various diagnostic systems are needed to measure fast neutron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 Iskender Atilla Reyhancan

(Gd,La)$_2$Si$_2$O$_7$:Ce (La-GPS:Ce) is a new scintillator material with high light output, high energy resolution, and fast decay time. Moreover, the scintillator has a good light output even at high temperature (up to 150$^\circ$C) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-02 Keita Mizukoshi , Takashi Iida , Izumi Ogawa , Kensei Shimizu , Shunsuke Kurosawa , Kei Kamada , Masao Yoshino , Akira Yoshikawa

We report the first clear observation of neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape sensitivity of a fully-instrumented 8 $\times$ 8 array of plastic scintillator segments coupled to two 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm 64-channel SiPM arrays as part of a study of…