Open AccessReal-time α/γ pulse shape discrimination in CsI(Tl) scintillators
Author(s) -
李奎念,
李斌康,
张美,
Li Yang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.63.202901
Subject(s) - discriminator , scintillator , pulse (music) , physics , computer science , optics , computational physics , algorithm , detector
A real-time α/γ pulse shape discriminator based on CsI(Tl) scintillators is developed. The charge comparison method is adopted as an inserted algorithm. In this paper, the design scheme of the system is introduced and the real-time system is tested with a 60Co-γ source and a 241Am-α source. The influence of parameter setting on the discrimination result is investigated and the best parameter setting is provided. The results show that the designed real-time system has a small size. The best figure of merits is above 1.4. The system can discriminate α/γ events exactly and its counting rate of events can achieve 3×105 per second.