In this study, we evaluated and compared the pulse shape discrimination (PSD) performance of a typical photomultiplier tube (PMT) with that of multipixel photon counters (MPPCs), also known as ...silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). We used CsI(Tl) scintillators for both setups and mainly evaluated the PSD performance in the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\alpha </tex-math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\beta </tex-math></inline-formula> separation. We used the charge comparison method, that is, identifying the particle type based on the ratio of the charges collected in two time gates: Short gate (SG) for the delayed part and long gate (LG) for the entire digitized waveform. With the same LG = 2250 ns, the PMT setup showed a better PSD performance with the figure of merit (FOM) being 3.33 (in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\alpha </tex-math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\beta </tex-math></inline-formula> separation), whereas the FOM of the MPPC setup was 2.26. This inferior performance of the MPPC setup was due to its slow response, mainly the slow decay time in the waveform of one photoelectron (p.e.) of the MPPCs. This study aimed to determine the relationships of the PSD performance with the number of p.e. collected and the time characteristics of the scintillator-photosensor coupling. From these relationships, we estimated the SG to obtain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\text {FOM}_{\text {max}} </tex-math></inline-formula> and afterward confirmed a method to further increase the PSD performance. The estimated SG gave a comparable FOM without an extensive search for the optimized SG for obtaining the actual <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\text {FOM}_{\text {max}} </tex-math></inline-formula> in analysis. To further increase the PSD performance of the MPPC setup, we used a new data acquisition (DAQ) system and extended the LG to 8000 ns to collect more p.e. and mitigate the slow response of the MPPCs. Using the new DAQ system, we obtained an FOM of 3.91 for the MPPC setup, that is, an increase by a factor of 1.7.
Highly-monochromatic γ-ray beams are produced at the NewSUBARU synchrotron radiation facility by the inverse Compton scattering of laser photons from relativistic electrons. The latest s-process ...study in nuclear astrophysics with the γ-ray beam is presented.
The Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics, one of the three pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Pan-European initiative, is a new large scale facility dedicated to nuclear physics ...with extreme electromagnetic fields. ELI-NP will host two 10 PW lasers and a very brilliant Gamma beam system with unprecedented intensity and energy resolution parameters. We propose to perform photon induced nuclear reactions using the very brilliant γ-ray beams provided by the Gamma beam system to examine in detail the photon absorption process and its decay modes. Here the experimental program related to nuclear research on reactions above the neutron separation threshold, which is under preparation at ELI-NP, is presented.
In order to investigate the contamination due to the radioactive isotopes (RIs) in NaI(Tl) scintillator for dark matter search, a simple method of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) to extract α-rays ...energy spectrum was developed. Two linear signals of different timings were input into a single module charge-sensitive analog-to-digital converter. The α- and the γ-rays were discriminated by comparing the total charge integration of a pulse with the partial one. As a result, the α-rays energy spectrum with NaI(Tl) was successfully and clearly extracted. The present work showed that the PSD method was performed by the minimum electronic circuits. The sensitivity was high enough to measure RIs of a few μBq/kg in high pure NaI crystals for dark matter search.
We have accurately determined U-chain concentration in a detector by means of the β–α delayed coincidence method. This method can measure the radioactivity of the order of
10
−7
Bq/
kg
. It ...corresponds to the concentration of the order of
0.01
ppt
under the assumption that the U-chain is in the secular radioactive equilibrium, by a signal-to-noise ratio of one to one.
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