Title :
Digital Pulse Shape Acquisition From BaF2: Preliminary Results
Author :
Amorini, F. ; De Filippo, E. ; Guazzoni, P. ; La Guidara, E. ; Lanzano, G. ; Pagano, A. ; Pirrone, S. ; Russo, S. ; Russotto, P. ; Sassi, M. ; Zetta, L.
Author_Institution :
Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, Catania
fDate :
Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006
Abstract :
The use of NE102A-BaF2 phoswich detector drastically improves the particle identification with respect to BaF2 crystals. To better exploit the possibility of light ion discrimination we plan to apply digital signal processing to the signals on-beam collected with NE102A-BaF2 phoswich. In this contribution we present the preliminary results obtained for the natural background of BaF2 and for the heavy ion charge identification (up to Z = 50) and light particle mass identification using digital pulse shape acquisition and a 12-bit, 2 Gsample/s sampling analog to digital converter.
Keywords :
barium compounds; signal processing; solid scintillation detectors; BaF2; NE102A-BaF2 phoswich detector; digital pulse shape acquisition; digital signal processing; heavy ion charge identification; light particle mass identification; Analog-digital conversion; Detectors; Digital signal processing; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Nuclear physics; Photonic crystals; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Signal processing; Signal sampling;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0560-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356192
