As nuclear physicists increasingly design large scale experiments with hundreds or thousands of detector channels, there are growing needs for high density readout electronics with good timing and energy resolution that at the same time offer lower cost per channel...
D. Breus
A Fast Pulsed Neutron Source for Time-of-flight Detection of Nuclear Materials and Explosives
AASC has built a fast pulsed neutron source based on the Dense Plasma Focus (DPF). The more current version stores only 100 J but fires at ∼10–50 Hz and emits ∼106n/pulse at a peak current of 100 kA. Both sources emit 2.45±0.1 MeV (DD) neutron pulses of ∼25–40 ns...
Digital Data Acquisition System for Experiments With Segmented Detectors at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
A 624-channel Digital Data Acquisition System capable of instrumenting the Segmented Germanium Array at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory has been implemented using Pixie-16 Digital Gamma Finder modules by XIA LLC. The system opens an opportunity for...
Development of 500 MHz Multi-channel Readout Electronics for Fast Radiation Detectors
We describe the development of readout electronics for fast radiation detectors that digitize signals at a rate of 500 MHz, process the digital data stream to measure pulse heights, bin the result in on-board MCA spectra, and optionally capture waveforms for pulse...