Published February 1984
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Energy Resolution Enhancement of Mercuric Iodide Detectors
Abstract
A pulse processing technique has been developed which improves the gamma-ray energy resolution of mercuric iodide detectors. The technique employs a fast (100 ns) and a slow (6.4 µs) pulse height analysis to correct for signal variations due to variations in charge trapping. The capabilities of the technique for energy resolution enhancement are discussed as well as the utility of the technique for examining the trapping characteristics of individual detectors. We have achieved an energy resolution of 2.6% FWHM at 662 keV with an acceptance efficiency of 100% from a mercuric iodide detector which gives 8.3% FWHM using standard techniques.
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© 1984 IEEE. This work was supported in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director's Discretionary Fund, NASA grant NGR 05- 002-160, and by U.S. Department of Energy Contract DEAC08- 83NV10282. We thank the High Energy Astrophysics Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the direction of Alan Jacobson for their contributions to the project. The support and contributions of Profs. Stone and Vogt and W. Althouse at the California Institute of Technology are gratefully acknowledged.Attached Files
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