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

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

440

Lastpage

443

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356192

Filename

4179031