Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
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| author | Leland, John Fang, Ming Pani, Satwik Venturini, Yuri Locatelli, Marco Di Fulvio, Angela |
| author_facet | Leland, John Fang, Ming Pani, Satwik Venturini, Yuri Locatelli, Marco Di Fulvio, Angela |
| contents | Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics, nuclear security and nonproliferation. Programmable electronics, like FPGAs and ASICs, provide a fast way of conditioning and processing the signal in real time. In this paper, we present a pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method based on the shaping circuit of a commercially available ASIC, the Citiroc1A by CAEN Technologies. We used two different shaping times per detector channel to calculate a shaping parameter that enables PSD. Using our new method, neutron and gamma-ray pulses detected by a d$_{12}$-stilbene scintillator can be effectively discriminated at light output values greater than 0.15 MeVee. While not achieving the PSD performance of traditional offline charge integration, our method does not require the transfer of data to a separate system for further processing and enables the direct deployment of high-channel density multi-particle detection systems. Moreover, the availability of a wider range of shaping times than those on the Citiroc1A can potentially further improve the PSD performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs Leland, John Fang, Ming Pani, Satwik Venturini, Yuri Locatelli, Marco Di Fulvio, Angela Instrumentation and Detectors Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics, nuclear security and nonproliferation. Programmable electronics, like FPGAs and ASICs, provide a fast way of conditioning and processing the signal in real time. In this paper, we present a pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method based on the shaping circuit of a commercially available ASIC, the Citiroc1A by CAEN Technologies. We used two different shaping times per detector channel to calculate a shaping parameter that enables PSD. Using our new method, neutron and gamma-ray pulses detected by a d$_{12}$-stilbene scintillator can be effectively discriminated at light output values greater than 0.15 MeVee. While not achieving the PSD performance of traditional offline charge integration, our method does not require the transfer of data to a separate system for further processing and enables the direct deployment of high-channel density multi-particle detection systems. Moreover, the availability of a wider range of shaping times than those on the Citiroc1A can potentially further improve the PSD performance. |
| title | Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16927 |