Simultaneous ballistic deficit immunity and resilience to parallel noise sources: A new pulse shaping technique
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 48 (3), 450-454
- https://doi.org/10.1109/23.940098
Abstract
A new and different time-variant pulse processing system has been developed based on a simple CR-RC filter and two analog switches. The new pulse processing technique combines both ballistic deficit immunity and resilience to parallel noise without a significant compromise to the low energy resolution, generally considered a mutually exclusive requirement. The filter is realized by combining two different pulse shaping techniques. One of the techniques creates a low rate of curvature at the pulse peak, which reduces ballistic deficit, while the second technique increases the tolerance to low-frequency noise by modifying the noise history. Several experimental measurements are presented, including tests on a coplanar grid CdZnTe detector. Improvements on both the resolution and line shape are shown for the 662 keV line of /sup 137/Cs.Keywords
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