Methodology and performance comparison of statistical learning pulse shape classifiers as demonstrated with organic liquid scintillator

R Wurtz, B Blair, C Chen, A Glenn, AD Kaplan… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present novel methods for automated pulse shape discrimination. The
classifiers are trained using simple radionuclide sources and do not require ground truth …

Multilayer perceptron model vs charge comparison method for neutron/gamma discrimination in plastic scintillator according to sampling frequency and energy …

A Hachem, Y Moline, G Corre… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pulse shape discrimination algorithms have been commonly implemented on embedded
systems to discriminate neutron/gamma radiations detected by organic scintillators in …

Machine learning for digital pulse shape discrimination

TS Sanderson, CD Scott, M Flaska… - 2012 IEEE Nuclear …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate discrimination of neutrons and gamma rays is critical for organic scintillation
detectors, especially for detection systems where minimal false-alarm rates are paramount …

[HTML][HTML] Labeling strategy to improve neutron/gamma discrimination with organic scintillator

A Hachem, Y Moline, G Corre, B Ouni, M Trocme… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic scintillators are widely used for neutron/gamma detection. Pulse shape
discrimination algorithms have been commonly used to discriminate the detected radiations …

Improving pulse shape discrimination in organic scintillation detectors by understanding underlying data structure

P Maedgen, B Wellons, S Prasad, J Tao - Nuclear Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Various machine learning techniques have been implemented to assist in neutron-gamma
discrimination with great success compared to traditional methods. Despite this, the …

Artificial neural network algorithms for pulse shape discrimination and recovery of piled-up pulses in organic scintillators

C Fu, A Di Fulvio, SD Clarke, D Wentzloff… - Annals of nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
We developed two neural-network (NN)-based algorithms (fully-connected neural network
(Fc-NN) and recurrent neural network (RNN)) to perform pulse shape discrimination (PSD) …

Comparison of pulse shape discrimination performance of stilbene and liquid scintillator under high count-rate active interrogation conditions

WGJ Langeveld, AM Glenn, SA Sheets… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
We compare the pulse-shape-discrimination performance of a large Stilbene detector,
manufactured at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to a similarly sized liquid …

Improved pulse shape discrimination in EJ-301 liquid scintillators

RF Lang, D Masson, J Pienaar, S Röttger - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Digital pulse shape discrimination has become readily available to distinguish nuclear recoil
and electronic recoil events in scintillation detectors. We evaluate digital implementations of …

[HTML][HTML] A variational autoencoder for minimally-supervised pulse shape discrimination

A Abdulaziz, J Zhou, M Fang, S McLaughlin… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a novel approach based on variational autoencoder with Gaussian mixture
latent space (GMVAE) to address the challenging problem of pulse shape discrimination …

Pulse shape discrimination algorithms, figures of merit, and gamma-rejection for liquid and solid scintillators

WGJ Langeveld, MJ King, J Kwong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in scintillators is useful to distinguish between signals
from neutrons and gamma rays. A standard algorithm is to divide the integral of the tail end …