Toward real-time digital pulse process algorithms for CsI (Tl) detector array at external target facility in HIRFL-CSR

T Liu, HS Song, YH Yu, D Yan, ZY Sun… - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Springer
A fully digital data acquisition system based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) was
developed for a CsI (Tl) array at the external target facility (ETF) in the Heavy Ion Research …

Event by event pile-up compensation in digital timestamped calorimetry

M Vencelj, K Bučar, R Novak, HJ Wörtche - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In digital nuclear calorimetry, the effect on measured pulse amplitudes by piling up of pulses
can be compensated based on the pulses' respective timestamps, making use of the fact …

Characterizing low-activity waste containers: A case study for Compton Suppression Systems under challenging signal-to-noise ratio

S Garti, J Dumazert, R Coulon, Q Lecomte… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work investigates a compact Compton Suppression System (CSS) based on a High-
Purity Germanium (HPGe) diode as a primary spectrometer. From a wide range of potential …

Efficient reduction of piled-up events in gamma-ray spectrometry at high count rates

T Petrovič, M Vencelj, M Lipoglavšek… - … on Nuclear Science, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When dealing with high count rate γ-ray spectrometry, the pile-up phenomenon is an
important obstacle to high detection efficiency and good energy resolution. In traditional …

Statistical pileup correction method for HPGe detectors

T Trigano, A Souloumiac, T Montagu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a nonlinear inversion problem occurring in gamma spectrometry. In that
framework, photon energies are converted to electrical pulses which are susceptible to …

Benchmark of the non-parametric Bayesian deconvolution method implemented in the SINBAD code for X/γ rays spectra processing

E Rohée, R Coulon, F Carrel, T Dautremer… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Radionuclide identification and quantification are a serious concern for many applications
as for in situ monitoring at nuclear facilities, laboratory analysis, special nuclear materials …

Delayed gamma power measurement for sodium-cooled fast reactors

R Coulon, S Normand, G Ban, E Barat… - … Engineering and Design, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous works on pressurized water reactors show that the nitrogen 16 activation product
can be used to measure thermal power. Power monitoring using a more stable indicator …

Fast digital filtering of spectrometric data for pile-up correction

T Trigano, E Barat, T Dautremer… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter considers a problem stemming from the analysis of spectrometric data. When
performing experiments on highly radioactive matter, electrical pulses recorded by the …

ADONIS: a new system for high count rate HPGe γ spectrometry

E Barat, T Dautremer, L Laribiere… - 2006 IEEE Nuclear …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ADONIS (Algorithmic Development framewOrk for Nuclear Instrumentation and
Spectrometry) system is a new γ spectrometer which addresses high count rate metrology. It …

Advanced algorithms for retrieving pileup peaks of digital alpha spectroscopy using antlions and particle swarm optimizations

MS El_Tokhy - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2020 - Springer
Optimization algorithms are applied to resolve the second-order pileup (SOP) issue from
high counting rates occurring in digital alpha spectroscopy. These are antlion optimizer …