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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

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

Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics, nuclear security and nonproliferation. Programmable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-26 John Leland , Ming Fang , Satwik Pani , Yuri Venturini , Marco Locatelli , Angela Di Fulvio

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

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

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

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

This review presents a comprehensive survey and benchmark of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) algorithms for radiation detection, classifying nearly sixty methods into statistical (time-domain, frequency-domain, neural network-based) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haoran Liu , Yihan Zhan , Mingzhe Liu , Yanhua Liu , Peng Li , Zhuo Zuo , Bingqi Liu , Runxi Liu

The basic principles of detection of fast neutrons with liquid scintillator detectors are reviewed, together with a real example in the form of the Neutron Wall array. Two of the challenges in neutron detection, discrimination of neutrons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-12-08 P. -A. Söderström

Pulse shape discrimination plays a key role in improving the signal-to-background ratio in NEOS analysis by removing fast neutrons. Identifying particles by looking at the tail of the waveform has been an effective and plausible approach…

Accurate detection of fingertips in depth image is critical for human-computer interaction. In this paper, we present a novel two-stream convolutional neural network (CNN) for RGB-D fingertip detection. Firstly edge image is extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Hengkai Guo , Guijin Wang , Xinghao Chen

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

Neutron imaging is one of the most powerful tools for nondestructive inspection owing to the unique characteristics of neutron beams, such as high permeability for many heavy metals, high sensitivity for certain light elements, and isotope…

Scintillators with pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) capability are of great interest to many fields in the scientific community. The ability to discern a gamma ray from a neutron using PSD varies between different types of scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-18 M. I. Pinilla-Orjuela , K. E. Mesick , P. F. Bloser , J. R. Tutt

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

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 report the performance and characterization of a custom-built hybrid detector consisting of BC501A liquid scintillator for fast neutrons and BC702 scintillator for thermal neutrons. The calibration and the resolution of the BC501A liquid…

Conventional 2D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) extract features from an input image by applying linear filters. These filters compute the spatial coherence by weighting the photometric information on a fixed neighborhood without taking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zongwei Wu , Guillaume Allibert , Christophe Stolz , Cedric Demonceaux

Many modern digital analyzers offer the ability to record raw pulses from ionizing radiation detectors. We use this opportunity to investigate the effectiveness of Charge Comparison Method in Pulse Shape Discrimination of neutron and gamma…

The ability to automatically detect certain types of cells or cellular subunits in microscopy images is of significant interest to a wide range of biomedical research and clinical practices. Cell detection methods have evolved from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yao Xue , Nilanjan Ray