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The method of pulse-shape analysis (PSA) for particle identification (PID) was applied to a double-sided silicon strip detector (DSSD) with a strip pitch of 300 \{mu}m. We present the results of test measurements with particles from the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-02-02 M. von Schmid , P. Egelhof , V. Eremin , R. Gernhäuser , T. Kröll , M. Mutterer , N. Pietralla , B. Streicher , M. Weber

DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne apparatus for detecting the high-energy cosmic-rays like electrons, $\gamma$-rays, protons and heavy-ions. Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) is the top-most sub-detector of the DAMPE.…

Point-contact p-type high-purity germanium detectors (PPC HPGe) are particularly suited for detection of sub-keV nuclear recoils from coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos or light dark matter particles. While these particles are…

The publicly accessible dataset includes neutron and gamma-ray pulse signals for conducting pulse shape discrimination experiments. Several traditional and recently proposed pulse shape discrimination algorithms are utilized to evaluate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Kaimin Wang , Haoran Liu , Peng Li , Mingzhe Liu , Zhuo Zuo

We characterize the performance of two pixelated neutron detectors: a PMT-based array that utilizes Anger logic for pixel identification and a SiPM-based array that employs individual pixel readout. The SiPM-based array offers improved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 J. Balajthy , P. Marleau , M. Sweany

A brief outline of Dark Matter detection experiments using liquid argon technology is presented. The Pulse Shape background discrimination method (PSD) is described and the example of its use in 2.3 l R&D detector is given. Methods of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Pawel Kryczynski

Introduction: Real-time dosimetry of surface doses in electron beams has not been widely established yet. Plastic scintillation detectors (PSD) promise high spatial resolution and real-time dosimetry with minimum perturbation of the…

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a direct-detection dark matter experiment, optimized to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through WIMP-nucleon interactions. The main challenge in dark matter detection is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , B. J. Almquist , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , K. Beattie , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , S. Contreras , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , C. L. Dunbar , S. R. Eriksen , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , P. W. Gaemers , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , J. Ghamsari , A. Ghosh , S. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , R. H. Hampp , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , K. Jenkins , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , M. K. Kannichankandy , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , E. B. Leon , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Long , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , W. Ma , V. Mahajan , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , R. J. Matheson , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , K. Morå , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , F. H. O'Shea , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y. Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , N. J. Pannifer , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , N. J. Rowe , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , S. Saltão , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , W. Sherman , K. Shi , T. Shutt , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , A. M. Softley-Brown , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , K. Trengove , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , J. Winnicki , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , J. Young , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang , Y. Zhou

A VME-based experiment system for n-{\gamma} discrimination using the charge comparison method was established. A data acquisition program for controlling the programmable modules and processing data online via VME64X bus was developed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 Yonghao Chen , Ximeng Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Jiarong Lei , Li An , Jianxiong Shao , Pu Zheng , Xinhua Wang , Chuanxin Zhu , Tie He , Jian Yang

We present the development of a neutron detector array module made with $\textit{para}$-terphenyl, a bright, fast, n/$\gamma$ discriminating crystalline organic scintillator. The module is comprised of 2 cm $\times$ 2 cm $\times$ 2 cm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-30 D. P. Scriven , G. Christian , G. V. Rogachev , C. E. Parker , L. G. Sobotka , S. Ahn , G. Chubarian , S. Ota , E. Aboud , J. Bishop , E. Koshchiy , A. G. Thomas

In this work, a new neutron and {\gamma}(n/{\gamma}) discrimination method based on an Elman Neural Network (ENN) is proposed to improve the discrimination performance of liquid scintillator (LS) detectors. Neutron and {\gamma} data were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-24 Cai-Xun Zhang , Shin-Ted Lin , Jian-Ling Zhao , Li Wang , Xun-Zhen Yu , Jing-Jun Zhu , Hao-Yang Xing

Sufficient current pulse information of nuclear radiation detectors can be retained by direct waveform digitization owing to the improvement of digitizer's performance. In many circumstances, reasonable cost and power consumption are on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Tao Xue , Jinfu Zhu , Jingjun Wen , Jirong Cang , Zhi Zeng , Liangjun Wei , Lin Jiang , Yinong Liu , Jianmin Li

This work reports on the performance of a novel neutron-sensitive scintillating detector fabricated using Fused-Deposition Modelling (FDM) additive manufacturing. FDM is a cost-effective 3D-printing method employing flexible plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 Adam Barr , Cinzia da Vià , Mosst Tasnim Binte Shawkat , Stephen Watts , John Allison , Gabriele D'Amen , Tianqi Gao

A new method for investigating the particle size distribution (PSD) is suggested using the nuclear forward scattering (NFS) of synchrotron radiation. The distribution of Weibull-Gnedenko is used to illustrate the relationship between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-23 A. I. Rykov

Superheated drop detector (SDD) consisting of drops of superheated liquid of halocarbon is irradiated to neutrons and gamma-rays from 252Cf fission neutron source and 137Cs gamma source separately. The analysis of pulse height of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 Mala Das , S Seth , S Saha , S Bhattacharya , P Bhattacharjee

Radar signal deinterleaving is an important part of electronic reconnaissance. This study proposes a new radar signal deinterleaving method based on semantic segmentation, which we call "semantic segmentation deinterleaving" (SSD). We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Wang Chao , Sun Liting , Liu Zhangmeng , Huang Zhitao

Gamma-ray emission from special nuclear material (SNM) is relatively easy to shield from detection using modest amounts of high-Z material. In contrast, fast-neutrons are much more penetrating and can escape relatively thick high-Z…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-14 Viacheslav A. Li , Felicia Sutanto , Timothy M. Classen , Steven A. Dazeley , Igor Jovanovic , Tingshiuan C. Wu

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

A new method of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) for BEGe detectors is developed to suppress Compton-continuum by digital pulse shape analysis (PSA), which helps reduce the Compton background level in gamma ray spectrometry. A decision…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-17 Yuhao Mi , Hao Ma , Zhi Zeng , Jianping Cheng , Junli Li , Hui Zhang

A Discrete Fourier Transform Method (DFTM) for discrimination between the signal of neutrons and gamma rays in organic scintillation detectors is presented. The method is based on the transformation of signals into the frequency domain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-03 M. J. Safari , F. Abbasi Davani , H. Afarideh , S. Jamili , E. Bayat