TY - JOUR AU - Luo, X. L. et al AU - Agramunt, J. AU - Egea, F. J. AU - Gadea, A. AU - Huyuk, T. PY - 2018 DA - 2018// TI - Pulse pile-up identification and reconstruction for liquid scintillator based neutron detectors T2 - Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A JO - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A SP - 59 EP - 65 VL - 897 PB - Elsevier Science Bv KW - Pile-up KW - Digital KW - First-order derivative KW - Neutron-gamma discrimination KW - Liquid scintillator AB - 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. SN - 0168-9002 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.078 DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.078 LA - English N1 - WOS:000433206800010 ID - Luo_etal2018 ER -