Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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  • Pages.4350-4356
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  • 2023
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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Non-iterative pulse tail extrapolation algorithms for correcting nuclear pulse pile-up

  • 투고 : 2023.04.08
  • 심사 : 2023.08.04
  • 발행 : 2023.12.25
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Radiation detection systems working at high count rates suffer from the overlapping of their output electric pulses, known as pulse pile-up phenomenon, resulting in spectrum distortion and degradation of the energy resolution. Pulse tail extrapolation is a pile-up correction method which tries to restore the shifted baseline of a piled-up pulse by extrapolating the overlapped part of its preceding pulse. This needs a mathematical model which is almost always nonlinear, fitted usually by a nonlinear least squares (NLS) technique. NLS is an iterative, potentially time-consuming method. The main idea of the present study is to replace the NLS technique by an integration-based non-iterative method (NIM) for pulse tail extrapolation by an exponential model. The idea of linear extrapolation, as another non-iterative method, is also investigated. Analysis of experimental data of a NaI(Tl) radiation detector shows that the proposed non-iterative method is able to provide a corrected spectrum quite similar with the NLS method, with a dramatically reduced computation time and complexity of the algorithm. The linear extrapolation approach suffers from a poor energy resolution and throughput rate in comparison with NIM and NLS techniques, but provides the shortest computation time.

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The author appreciates the technical support by Fatemeh NowrouzAlizadeh and Mosayeb Dehghani, the scientific staffs of the Shiraz University laboratories at the Radiation Research Center (RRC) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, respectively.

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