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Feasibility study on signal separation for spontaneous alpha decay in LaBr3:Ce scintillator by signal peak-to-charge discrimination
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| Title: | Feasibility study on signal separation for spontaneous alpha decay in LaBr3:Ce scintillator by signal peak-to-charge discrimination |
| Authors: | Ogawara, R. Browse this author | | Ishikawa, M. Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2015 |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
| Journal Title: | Review of scientific instruments |
| Volume: | 86 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page: | 85108 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1063/1.4928115 |
| PMID: | 26329234 |
| Abstract: | A novel analysis method named peak-to-charge ratio (V-p/Q(total)) discrimination, aiming at background rejection especially for alpha decay self-activity in LaBr3:Ce scintillators has been developed. This method is based on a waveform analysis using the peak-to-charge ratio in the output waveform of a photomultiplier tube. The discrimination of alpha-induced events was achieved by using a threshold function based on the error propagation of the V-p/Q(total) value. The accidental rejection ratio of gamma-induced events was evaluated to be 0.17%. Furthermore, a total absorption peak spectrum processed with the V-p/Q(total) discrimination method for Ga-68 1.883 MeV gamma rays, where the energy was overlapped with background alpha events, reproduced exactly the same result as that of the background subtraction method. The difference in measured peak counts of both methods was 0.716%, and the statistical error in the V-p/Q(total) discrimination method and background subtraction was 4.81% and 8.70%, respectively. Thus a higher-accuracy measurement could be achieved using the V-p/Q(total) discrimination method. The present study demonstrates that the V-p/Q(total) discrimination method is a promising method for background rejection of the spontaneous alpha decay in LaBr3: Ce scintillators. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. |
| Rights: | Copyright 2015 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Review of scientific instruments and may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/86/8/10.1063/1.4928115. | | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/60098 |
| Appears in Collections: | 国際連携研究教育局 : GI-CoRE (Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education : GI-CoRE) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
保健科学院・保健科学研究院 (Graduate School of Health Sciences / Faculty of Health Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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