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Marco-Hernandez, R. |
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Development of a beam test telescope based on the Alibava readout system |
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Journal Article |
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2011 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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6 |
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C01002 - 7pp |
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Particle tracking detectors; Data acquisition circuits; Front-end electronics for detector readout; Digital electronic circuits |
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A telescope for a beam test have been developed as a result of a collaboration among the University of Liverpool, Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (CNM) of Barcelona and Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) of Valencia. This system is intended to carry out both analogue charge collection and spatial resolution measurements with different types of microstrip or pixel silicon detectors in a beam test environment. The telescope has four XY measurement as well as trigger planes (XYT board) and it can accommodate up to twelve devices under test (DUT board). The DUT board uses two Beetle ASICs for the readout of chilled silicon detectors. The board could operate in a self-triggering mode. The board features a temperature sensor and it can be mounted on a rotary stage. A peltier element is used for cooling the DUT. Each XYT board measures the track space points using two silicon strip detectors connected to two Beetle ASICs. It can also trigger on the particle tracks in the beam test. The board includes a CPLD which allows for the synchronization of the trigger signal to a common clock frequency, delaying and implementing coincidence with other XYT boards. An Alibava mother board is used to read out and to control each XYT/DUT board from a common trigger signal and a common clock signal. The Alibava board has a TDC on board to have a time stamp of each trigger. The data collected by each Alibava board is sent to a master card by means of a local data/address bus following a custom digital protocol. The master board distributes the trigger, clock and reset signals. It also merges the data streams from up to sixteen Alibava boards. The board has also a test channel for testing in a standard mode a XYT or DUT board. This board is implemented with a Xilinx development board and a custom patch board. The master board is connected with the DAQ software via 100M Ethernet. Track based alignment software has also been developed for the data obtained with the DAQ software. |
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[Marco-Hernandez, R.; Alibava Collaboration] CSIC UV, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: rmarco@ific.uv.es |
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ISI:000291345600007 |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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AGATA Collaboration (Akkoyun, S. et al); Algora, A.; Barrientos, D.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Egea, F.J.; Gadea, A.; Huyuk, T.; Kaci, M.; Mendez, V.; Rubio, B.; Salt, J.; Tain, J.L. |
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AGATA-Advanced GAmma Tracking Array |
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Journal Article |
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2012 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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668 |
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26-58 |
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AGATA; gamma-Ray spectroscopy; gamma-Ray tracking; HPGe detectors; Digital signal processing; Pulse-shape and gamma-ray tracking algorithms; Semiconductor detector performance and simulations |
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The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) is a European project to develop and operate the next generation gamma-ray spectrometer. AGATA is based on the technique of gamma-ray energy tracking in electrically segmented high-purity germanium crystals. This technique requires the accurate determination of the energy, time and position of every interaction as a gamma ray deposits its energy within the detector volume. Reconstruction of the full interaction path results in a detector with very high efficiency and excellent spectral response. The realisation of gamma-ray tracking and AGATA is a result of many technical advances. These include the development of encapsulated highly segmented germanium detectors assembled in a triple cluster detector cryostat, an electronics system with fast digital sampling and a data acquisition system to process the data at a high rate. The full characterisation of the crystals was measured and compared with detector-response simulations. This enabled pulse-shape analysis algorithms, to extract energy, time and position, to be employed. In addition, tracking algorithms for event reconstruction were developed. The first phase of AGATA is now complete and operational in its first physics campaign. In the future AGATA will be moved between laboratories in Europe and operated in a series of campaigns to take advantage of the different beams and facilities available to maximise its science output. The paper reviews all the achievements made in the AGATA project including all the necessary infrastructure to operate and support the spectrometer. |
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[Boston, A. J.; Boston, H. C.; Colosimo, S.; Cooper, R. J.; Cresswell, J. R.; Dimmock, M. R.; Filmer, F.; Grint, A. N.; Harkness, L. J.; Judson, D. S.; Mather, A. R.; Moon, S.; Nelson, L.; Nolan, P. J.; Norman, M.; Oxley, D. C.; Rigby, S.; Sampson, J.; Scraggs, D. P.; Seddon, D.; Slee, M.; Stanios, T.; Thornhill, J.; Unsworth, C.; Wells, D.] Univ Liverpool, Oliver Lodge Lab, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England, Email: a.j.boston@liverpool.ac.uk |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Carrio, F.; Kim, H.Y.; Moreno, P.; Reed, R.; Sandrock, C.; Schettino, V.; Shalyugin, A.; Solans, C.; Souza, J.; Usai, G.; Valero, A. |
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Design of an FPGA-based embedded system for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter front-end electronics test-bench |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
Publication |
Journal of Instrumentation |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Instrum. |
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9 |
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C03023 - 12pp |
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Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms; databases); Data acquisition concepts; Digital electronic circuits |
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The portable test-bench for the certification of the ATLAS tile hadronic calorimeter front-end electronics has been redesigned for the present Long Shutdown (LS1) of LHC, improving its portability and expanding its functionalities. This paper presents a new test-bench based on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA that implements an embedded system using a PowerPC 440 microprocessor hard core and custom IP cores. A light Linux version runs on the PowerPC microprocessor and handles the IP cores which implement the different functionalities needed to perform the desired tests such as TTCvi emulation, G-Link decoding, ADC control and data reception. |
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[Carrio, F.; Valero, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: fernando.carrio@cern.ch |
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WOS:000336123200023 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1801 |
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Mengoni, D.; Duenas, J.A.; Assie, M.; Boiano, C.; John, P.R.; Aliaga, R.J.; Beaumel, D.; Capra, S.; Gadea, A.; Gonzales, V.; Gottardo, A.; Grassi, L.; Herrero-Bosch, V.; Houdy, T.; Martel, I.; Parkar, V.V.; Perez-Vidal, R.M.; Pullia, A.; Sanchis, E.; Triossi, A.; Valiente-Dobon, J.J. |
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Digital pulse-shape analysis with a TRACE early silicon prototype |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
Publication |
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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764 |
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241-246 |
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Silicon detector; Light-charged particles; Digital pulse shape analysis; Particle identification; Gamma-ray spectroscopy |
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A highly segmented silicon-pad detector prototype has been tested to explore the performance of the digital pulse shape analysis in the discrimination of the particles reaching the silicon detector. For the first time a 200 tun thin silicon detector, grown using an ordinary floating zone technique, has been shown to exhibit a level discrimination thanks to the fine segmentation. Light-charged particles down to few MeV have been separated, including their punch-through. A coaxial HPGe detector in time coincidence has further confirmed the quality of the particle discrimination. |
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[Mengoni, D.; John, P. R.; Grassi, L.] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy |
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WOS:000341987000030 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1929 |
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Luo, X.L. et al; Agramunt, J.; Egea, F.J.; Gadea, A.; Huyuk, T. |
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Test of digital neutron-gamma discrimination with four different photomultiplier tubes for the NEutron Detector Array (NEDA) |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
Publication |
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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767 |
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83-91 |
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Digital neutron-gamma discrimination; Liquid scintillator; Photomultiplier tube; Charge Comparison; Integrated rise-time; Time-of-flight; NEDA |
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A comparative study of the neutron-gamma discrimination performance of a liquid scintillator detector BC501A coupled to four different 5 in photomultiplier tubes (ET9390kb, R11833-100, XP4512 and R4144) was carried out Both the Charge Comparison method and the Integrated Rise-Time method were implemented digitally to discriminate between neutrons and gamma rays emitted by a Cf-252 source. In both methods, the neutron-gamma discrimination capabilities of the four photomultiplier tubes were quantitatively compared by evaluating their figure-of-merit values at different energy regions between 50 keVee and 1000 keVee. Additionally, the results were further verified qualitatively using time-of-flight to distinguish gamma rays and neutrons. The results consistently show that photomultiplier tubes R11833-100 and ET9390kb generally perform best regarding neutron-gamma discrimination with only slight differences in figure-of-merit values. This superiority can be explained by their relatively higher photoelectron yield, which indicates that a scintillator detector coupled to a photomultiplier tube with higher photoelectron yield tends to result in better neutron-gamma discrimination performance. The results of this work will provide reference for the choice of photomultiplier tubes for future neutron detector arrays like NEDA. |
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[Luo, X. L.] Natl Univ Def Technol, Coll Mechatron & Automat, Dept Instrument Sci & Technol, Changsha, Hunan, Peoples R China, Email: luo.xiaoliang@physics.uu.se |
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WOS:000344994600012 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2011 |
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Modamio, V.; Valiente-Dobon, J.J.; Jaworski, G.; Huyuk, T.; Triossi, A.; Egea, J.; Di Nitto, A.; Soderstrom, P.A.; Ros, J.A.; de Angelis, G.; de France, G.; Erduran, M.N.; Erturk, S.; Gadea, A.; Gonzalez, V.; Kownacki, J.; Moszynski, M.; Nyberg, J.; Palacz, M.; Sanchis, E.; Wadsworthm, R. |
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Digital pulse-timing technique for the neutron detector array NEDA |
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Journal Article |
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2015 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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775 |
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71-76 |
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Digital timing; Constant fraction discriminator; Liquid scintillator; BC501A; Neutron detector; NEDA |
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A new digital pulse-timing algorithm, to be used with the future neutron detector array NEDA, has been developed and tested. The time resolution of four 5 in diameter photomultiplier tubes (XP4512, R4144, R11833-100, and ET9390-kb), coupled to a cylindrical 5 in by 5 in BC501A liquict scintillator detector was measured by employing digital sampling electronics and a constant fraction discriminator (CFD) algorithm. The zero crossing of the CM algorithm was obtained with a cubic spline interpolation, which was continuous up to the second derivative. The performance of the algorithm was studied at sampling rates of 500 MS/s and 200 MS/s. The time resolution obtained with the digital electronics was compared to the values acquired with a standard analog CFD. The result of this comparison shows that the time resolution from the analog and the digital measurements at 500 MS/s and at 200 MS/s are within 15% for all the tested photomultiplier tubes. |
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[Modamio, V.; Valiente-Dobon, J. J.; Triossi, A.; de Angelis, G.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy, Email: victor.modamio@lnl.infn.it |
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WOS:000348040900011 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Agramunt, J. et al; Tain, J.L.; Albiol, F.; Algora, A.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Jordan, M. D.; Rubio, B.; Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.; Valencia, E. |
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Characterization of a neutron-beta counting system with beta-delayed neutron emitters |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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807 |
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69-78 |
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Beta-delayed neutron emission probability; Neutron and beta counters; Self-triggered digital data acquisition system; Geant4 simulations |
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A new detection system for the measurement of beta-delayed neutron emission probabilities has been characterized using fission products with well known beta-delayed neutron emission properties. The setup consists of BELEN-20, a 4 pi-neutron counter with twenty He-3 proportional tubes arranged inside a large polyethylene neutron moderator, a thin Si detector for beta counting and a self-triggering digital data acquisition system. The use of delayed-neutron precursors with different neutron emission windows allowed the study of the effect of energy dependency on neutron, beta and beta-neutron rates. The observed effect is well reproduced by Monte Carlo simulations. The impact of this dependency on the accuracy of neutron emission probabilities is discussed. A new accurate value of the neutron emission probability for the important delayed-neutron precursor I-137 was obtained, P-n = 7.76(14)%. |
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[Agramunt, J.; Tain, J. L.; Albiol, E.; Algora, A.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Jordan, M. D.; Rubio, B.; Tarifeno-Saldivia, A.; Valencia, E.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Tain@ific.uv.es |
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WOS:000365596200010 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Marco-Hernandez, R.; Alves, D.; Angoletta, M.E.; Marqversen, O.; Molendijk, J.; Oponowicz, E.; Ruffieux, R.; Sanchez-Quesada, J.; Soby, L. |
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The AD and ELENA orbit, trajectory and intensity measurement systems |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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12 |
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P07024 - 24pp |
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Beam-line instrumentation (beam position and profile monitors; beam-intensity monitors; bunch length monitors); Data acquisition concepts; Digital electronic circuits; Digital signal processing (DSP) |
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This paper describes the new Antiproton Decelerator (AD) orbit measurement system and the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) orbit, trajectory and intensity measurement system. The AD machine at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is presently being used to decelerate antiprotons from 3.57 GeV/c to 100 MeV/c for matter vs anti-matter comparative studies. The ELENA machine, presently under commissioning, has been designed to provide an extra deceleration stage down to 13.7 MeV/c. The AD orbit system is based on 32 horizontal and 27 vertical electrostatic Beam Position Monitor (BPM) fitted with existing low noise front-end amplifiers while the ELENA system consists of 24 BPMs equipped with new low-noise head amplifiers. In both systems the front-end amplifiers generate a difference (delta) and a sum (sigma) signal which are sent to the digital acquisition system, placed tens of meters away from the AD or ELENA rings, where they are digitized and further processed. The beam position is calculated by dividing the difference signal by the sum signal either using directly the raw digitized data for measuring the turn-by-turn trajectory in the ELENA system or after down-mixing the signals to baseband for the orbit measurement in both machines. The digitized sigma signal will be used in the ELENA system to calculate the bunched beam intensity and the Schottky parameters with coasting beam after passing through different signal processing chain. The digital acquisition arrangement for both systems is based on the same hardware, also used in the ELENA Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) system, which follows the VME Switched Serial (VXS) enhancement of the Versa Module Eurocard 64x extension (VME64x) standard and includes VITA 57 standard Field Programmable Gate Array Mezzanine Card (FMC). The digital acquisition Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) andDigital Signal Processor (DSP) firmware sharesmany common functionalities with the LLRF system but has been tailored for this measurement application in particular. Specific control and acquisition software has been developed for these systems. Both systems are installed in AD and ELENA. The AD orbit system currently measures the orbit in AD while the ELENA system is being used in the commissioning of the ELENA ring. |
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[Marco-Hernandez, R.; Alves, D.; Angoletta, M. E.; Marqversen, O.; Molendijk, J.; Oponowicz, E.; Ruffieux, R.; Sanchez-Quesada, J.; Soby, L.] CERN, European Org Nucl Res, Beams Dept, 385 Route Meyrin, Meyrin, Switzerland, Email: Ricardo.Marco@ific.uv.es |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Double Chooz collaboration (Abrahao, T. et al); Novella, P. |
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Novel event classification based on spectral analysis of scintillation waveforms in Double Chooz |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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13 |
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P01031 - 26pp |
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Digital signal processing (DSP); Particle identification methods; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators); Neutrino detectors |
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Liquid scintillators are a common choice for neutrino physics experiments, but their capabilities to perform background rejection by scintillation pulse shape discrimination is generally limited in large detectors. This paper describes a novel approach for a pulse shape based event classification developed in the context of the Double Chooz reactor antineutrino experiment. Unlike previous implementations, this method uses the Fourier power spectra of the scintillation pulse shapes to obtain event-wise information. A classification variable built from spectral information was able to achieve an unprecedented performance, despite the lack of optimization at the detector design level. Several examples of event classification are provided, ranging from differentiation between the detector volumes and an efficient rejection of instrumental light noise, to some sensitivity to the particle type, such as stopping muons, ortho-positronium formation, alpha particles as well as electrons and positrons. In combination with other techniques the method is expected to allow for a versatile and more efficient background rejection in the future, especially if detector optimization is taken into account at the design level. |
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[Abrahao, T.; dos Anjos, J. C.; Lima, H.; Pepe, I.; Wagner, S.] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, BR-22290180 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Email: stefan.wagner@apc.in2p3.fr |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Luo, X.L. et al; Agramunt, J.; Egea, F.J.; Gadea, A.; Huyuk, T. |
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Pulse pile-up identification and reconstruction for liquid scintillator based neutron detectors |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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897 |
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59-65 |
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Pile-up; Digital; First-order derivative; Neutron-gamma discrimination; Liquid scintillator |
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The issue of pulse pile-up is frequently encountered in nuclear experiments involving high counting rates, which will distort the pulse shapes and the energy spectra. A digital method of off-line processing of pile-up pulses is presented. The pile-up pulses were firstly identified by detecting the downward-going zero-crossings in the first-order derivative of the original signal, and then the constituent pulses were reconstructed based on comparing the pile-up pulse with four models that are generated by combining pairs of neutron and.. standard pulses together with a controllable time interval. The accuracy of this method in resolving the pile-up events was investigated as a function of the time interval between two pulses constituting a pile-up event. The obtained results show that the method is capable of disentangling two pulses with a time interval among them down to 20 ns, as well as classifying them as neutrons or gamma rays. Furthermore, the error of reconstructing pile-up pulses could be kept below 6% when successive peaks were separated by more than 50 ns. By applying the method in a high counting rate of pile-up events measurement of the NEutron Detector Array (NEDA), it was empirically found that this method can reconstruct the pile-up pulses and perform neutron-gamma discrimination quite accurately. It can also significantly correct the distorted pulse height spectrum due to pile-up events. |
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[Luo, X. L.] Acad Mil Med Sci, Natl Innovat Inst Def Technol, Beijing 100010, Peoples R China, Email: delongtmac@163.com |
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WOS:000433206800010 |
Approved |
no |
| Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
| Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3591 |
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