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We report on the design and performance of a mixed-signal application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) dedicated to avalanche photodiodes (APDs) in order to detect hard X-ray emissions in a wide energy band onboard the International Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 M. Arimoto , S. Harita , S. Sugita , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , H. Ikeda , H. Tomida , N. Isobe , S. Ueno , T. Mihara , M. Serino , T. Kohmura , T. Sakamoto , A. Yoshida , H. Tsunemi , S. Hatori , K. Kume , T. Hasegawa

This study utilized the Tempotron, a robust classifier based on a third-generation neural network model, for pulse shape discrimination. By eliminating the need for manual feature extraction, the Tempotron model can process pulse signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Haoran Liu , Peng Li , Ming-Zhe Liu , Kai-Ming Wang , Zhuo Zuo , Bing-Qi Liu

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

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

This paper describes the implementation and performance of CsI(Tl) pulse shape discrimination for the Belle II electromagnetic calorimeter, representing the first application of CsI(Tl) pulse shape discrimination for particle identification…

One of the main purposes of the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is to measure the cosmic ray nuclei up to several tens of TeV or beyond, whose origin and propagation remains a hot topic in astrophysics. The Plastic Scintillator…

The Lanthanum Halide scintillator detectors have been widely used for nuclear spectroscopy experiments because of their excellent energy and time resolutions. Despite having these advantages, the intrinsic alpha and beta contaminations in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-11 D. Chattopadhyay , Sathi Sharma , M. Saha Sarkar

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…

The DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from $^{39}$Ar beta decays and is suppressed using pulseshape discrimination…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-28 The DEAP Collaboration , P. Adhikari , R. Ajaj , M. Alpízar-Venegas , P. -A. Amaudruz , D. J. Auty , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , H. Benmansour , C. E. Bina , J. Bonatt , W. Bonivento , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , M. Cadeddu , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Cavuoti , M. Chen , Y. Chen , B. T. Cleveland , J. M. Corning , D. Cranshaw , S. Daugherty , P. DelGobbo , K. Dering , J. DiGioseffo , P. Di Stefano , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , E. Ellingwood , A. Erlandson , S. S. Farahani , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , S. Florian , T. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , D. Gallacher , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , D. Goeldi , V. Golovko , P. Gorel , K. Graham , D. R. Grant , A. Grobov , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , C. Hearns , T. Hugues , A. Ilyasov , A. Joy , B. Jigmeddorj , C. J. Jillings , O. Kamaev , G. Kaur , A. Kemp , I. Kochanek , M. Kuźniak , M. Lai , S. Langrock , B. Lehnert , A. Leonhardt , N. Levashko , X. Li , J. Lidgard , T. Lindner , M. Lissia , J. Lock , G. Longo , I. Machulin , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , J. Monroe , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , E. O'Dwyer , G. Oliviéro , C. Ouellet , S. Pal , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , M. Perry , V. Pesudo , E. Picciau , M. -C. Piro , T. R. Pollmann , E. T. Rand , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , I. Rodríguez-García , L. Roszkowski , J. B. Ruhland , E. Sánchez-García , R. Santorelli , D. Sinclair , P. Skensved , B. Smith , N. J. T. Smith , T. Sonley , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , C. Stone , V. Strickland , M. Stringer , B. Sur , J. Tang , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , S. Viel , J. Walding , M. Waqar , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , J. Willis , A. Zuñiga-Reyes

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

We propose a feature-extraction procedure based on the statistical characterization of waveforms, applied as a fast pre-processing stage in a pattern recognition task using simple artificial neural network models. This procedure involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 G. H. Bustos , H. H. Segnorile

This work presents the design of BUSARD, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the detection of ionizing particles. The ASIC is a monolithic active pixel sensor which has been fabricated in a High-Voltage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 Fabricio Alcalde Bessia , José Lipovetzky , Ivan Perić

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

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

Pulse shape discrimination in liquid scintillator detectors is a well-established technique for the discrimination of heavy particles from light particles. Nonetheless, it is not efficient in the separation of electrons and positrons, as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Perasso , G. Consolati , D. Franco , S. Hans , C. Jollet , A. Meregaglia , A. Tonazzo , M. Yeh

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

Modern PET scanners based on scintillating crystals use solid state photo detectors for light readout. The small area of these devices is beneficial for spatial resolution, but also leads to a large number of electronic channels to be read…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-04 Peter Fischer , Michael Ritzert , Thomas Kerschenbauer

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

The energy and electric field dependence of pulse shape discrimination in liquid xenon have been measured in a 10 gm two-phase xenon time projection chamber. We have demonstrated the use of the pulse shape and charge-to-light ratio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Kwong , P. Brusov , T. Shutt , C. E. Dahl , A. I. Bolozdynya , A. Bradley