Pulse Height Selection and Coincidence Technique

Abstract

With this chapter, we begin our discussion of designing and setting up nuclear electronics systems for measurements in nuclear physics. This is a somewhat ambitious goal, as for a given application, there is no one particular system which must be used. Indeed, nowhere does the old adage of “more than one way of skinning a cat” apply more often than here. And if there are any hard and set rules, it is to use lots of imagination! There are nevertheless certain basic systems and methods which have proven their efficiency and efficacy over the years and which provide a foundation for more complex systems. Our method here will be to describe examples of these often used systems using them as illustrations of the how the various functions described in the previous chapter can be combined to give a particular result.