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A pulse-shape discrimination method based on artificial neural networks was applied to pulses simulated for different background, signal and signal-like interactions inside a germanium detector. The simulated pulses were used to investigate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-02 A. Caldwell , F. Cossavella , B. Majorovits , D. Palioselitis , O. Volynets

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…

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

Pulse shape discriminating scintillator materials in many cases allow the user to identify two basic kinds of pulses arising from two kinds of particles: neutrons and gammas. An uncomplicated solution for building a classifier consists of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrew Glenn , Qi Cheng , Alan D. Kaplan , Ron Wurtz

The light output, $\alpha/\beta$ ratio, and pulse shape have been investigated at $-25^\circ$ C with PbWO$_4$ crystal scintillators undoped, and doped by F, Eu, Mo, Gd and S. The fast $0.01-0.06 \mu$s and middle $0.1-0.5 \mu$s components of…

Scintillation detectors with excellent timing resolution enable more precise localization of radiation sources in positron emission tomography, leading to substantial improvements in diagnostic capability for diseases such as cancer and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-28 Yuya Onishi , Ryosuke Ota , Fumio Hashimoto , Kibo Ote , Go Akamatsu , Hideaki Tashima , Taiga Yamaya

A successfull application of Geiger-mode multipixel avalanche diodes (GMAPDs) for pulse-shape discrimination in alpha-beta spectrometry using organic liquid scintillator is described in this paper. Efficient discrimination of alpha and beta…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 I. Kreslo , I. Badhrees , S. Delaquis , A. Ereditato , S. Janos , M. Messina , U. Moser , B. Rossi , M. Zeller

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

Organic glass scintillators are an interesting alternative to liquid scintillators, offering many advantageous characteristics with few drawbacks. In this paper we investigate the influence of light self-absorption in the organic glass…

Results of experimental studies of detector arrays S-PD (scintillator-photodiode) and PRD (scintillator-photoreceiving device) used for X-ray digital radiography have shown that there exist further possibilities to increase spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 V. D. Ryzhikov , S. V. Naydenov , D. N. Kozin , E. K. Lisetskaya , A. D. Opolonin , V. M. Svishch , T. V. Kulik

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) is a non-destructive radiological technique widely used in material science studies. PALS typically relies on an analog coincidence measurement setup and allows the estimate of the positron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Ming Fang , Nathan Bartholomew , Angela Di Fulvio

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

In this study, we propose a fast implementation of a Maximum Likelihood Positioning (MLP) algorithm to estimate the energy and identify the active scintillator pixel in staggered layer scintillation detectors for PET. The staggered layer…

We demonstrate a smart laser-diffraction analysis technique for particle mixture identification. We retrieve information about the size, geometry, and ratio concentration of two-component heterogeneous particle mixtures with an efficiency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Arturo Villegas , Mario A. Quiroz-Juarez , Alfred U'Ren , Juan P. Torres , Roberto de J. Leon-Montiel

Plastic scintillators detectors (PSDs) have been studied as dosimeters, since they provide a cost-effective alternative to conventional ionization chambers. Measurement and analysis of energy dependency were performed on a Siemens Mammomat…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-06 J. Antunes , J. Machado , L. Peralta , N. Matela

Plastic scintillation detectors for Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurements are almost essential for event-by-event identification of relativistic rare isotopes. In this work, a pair of plastic scintillation detectors of 50 $\times$ 50 $\times$…

The use of machine learning algorithms is an attractive way to produce very fast detector simulations for scattering reactions that can otherwise be computationally expensive. Here we develop a factorised approach where we deal with each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-07-26 D. Darulis , R. Tyson , D. G. Ireland , D. I. Glazier , B. McKinnon , P. Pauli

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 present a new conceptual radiation detector, the Architected Multimaterial Scintillator System, that utilizes a scintillator composed of multiple materials arranged in architected structures to enable new capabilities. By structuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-11 Xianyi Zhang , Jason Philip Brodsky , Elaine Lee , Andrew Neil Mabe , Dominique Porcincula

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…