Pulse pile-up and dead time corrections for digitized signals from a BaF2 calorimeter

E. Mendoza; D. Cano-Ott; C. Guerrero; E. Berthoumieux; Anton Wallner

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.010

Pulse pile-up and dead time corrections for digitized signals from a BaF₂ calorimeter

E. Mendoza^*, D. Cano-Ott, C. Guerrero, E. Berthoumieux, Anton Wallner

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The pulse pile-up and associated dead time effects in an ²⁴³Am(n,γ) cross section measurement with a BaF₂ Total Absorption Calorimeter at the CERN n-TOF facility have been characterized. In this case, reliable corrections of these effects are crucial because of the complex detector configuration and of the high count rate induced by the sample activity of 50 MBq. The techniques, which have been developed for offline processing of the present data, may be of general interest for the analysis of other experiments using digital acquisition systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-61
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	768
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.010
Publication status	Published - 21 Dec 2014

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