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| author | Fernández, Pedro Rodríguez Svinth, Christian Hagen, Alex |
| author_facet | Fernández, Pedro Rodríguez Svinth, Christian Hagen, Alex |
| contents | We present a method to improve the detection limit for radionuclides using spectroscopic radiation detectors and the arrival time of each detected radiation quantum. We enable this method using a neural network with an attention mechanism. We illustrate the method on the detection of Cesium release from a nuclear facility during an upset, and our method shows $2\times$ improvement over the traditional spectroscopic method. We hypothesize that our method achieves this performance increase by modulating its detection probability by the overall rate of probable detections, specifically by adapting detection thresholds based on temporal event distributions and local spectral features, and show evidence to this effect. We believe this method is applicable broadly and may be more successful for radionuclides with more complicated decay chains than Cesium; we also note that our method can generalize beyond the addition of arrival time and could integrate other data about each detection event, such as pulse quality, location in detector, or even combining the energy and time from detections in different detectors. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Improvement of Nuclide Detection through Graph Spectroscopic Analysis Framework and its Application to Nuclear Facility Upset Detection Fernández, Pedro Rodríguez Svinth, Christian Hagen, Alex Instrumentation and Detectors Machine Learning Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability We present a method to improve the detection limit for radionuclides using spectroscopic radiation detectors and the arrival time of each detected radiation quantum. We enable this method using a neural network with an attention mechanism. We illustrate the method on the detection of Cesium release from a nuclear facility during an upset, and our method shows $2\times$ improvement over the traditional spectroscopic method. We hypothesize that our method achieves this performance increase by modulating its detection probability by the overall rate of probable detections, specifically by adapting detection thresholds based on temporal event distributions and local spectral features, and show evidence to this effect. We believe this method is applicable broadly and may be more successful for radionuclides with more complicated decay chains than Cesium; we also note that our method can generalize beyond the addition of arrival time and could integrate other data about each detection event, such as pulse quality, location in detector, or even combining the energy and time from detections in different detectors. |
| title | Improvement of Nuclide Detection through Graph Spectroscopic Analysis Framework and its Application to Nuclear Facility Upset Detection |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors Machine Learning Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16522 |