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In MIA pulse flaw detectors pulses of two types are used ... 

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In the measurement technique, which has been used on D3 for many years, the ratio of the time spent counting with the cryoflipper in (+) or (-) mode is controlled by a quartz crystal controlled oscillator with a highly stable output frequency / of 1 MHz. There are two scalers to count the detector pulses (+ and - states), a single monitor scaler and a single time scaler used to end the measurement when the total time is reached (precision of 1 ms). 

As discussed in Section 15.2.1.3, the thermal coupling between A and T takes place through a contact thermal resistance Rc, which scales as l/r3 (see Section 4.4). The increase of Rc produces several drawbacks, as we shall see in this section, first of all an increase of the fall time of the detector pulses. 

The inelastic scattered gammas from nitrogen are very weak and hard to detect in the detector pulse continuum. With low-energy resolution gamma detectors... 

The experimental apparatus consists of eight main parts an ultraviolet flashlamp capable of repetitive flashing at about 5 Hz, a purge flow reactor with either pinhole or molecular beam sampling, an ion source, a mass filter, an ion detector, pulse-counting electronics, computer data aquisition, and a vacuum system. A diagram of the apparatus is shown in Figure 1. 

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For special pulse manipulation. The detector pulse may, in certain applications, need special pulse shaping to satisfy the needs of certain units of the counting system. As an example, the signal at the output of the amplifier needs to be stretched before it is recorded in the memory of a multichannel analyzer (see Sec. 10.12). 

Many different methods have been proposed and used for successful PSD. One method doubly differentiates the detector pulse, either using CR circuits or a delay line, and bases the PSD on the time interval between the beginning of the pulse and the zero crossing point. This time interval, which is... 

The gas multiplication factor varies with the applied voltage but for a given voltage a is constant so the detector pulse output is directly proportional to the primary ionization. As a result it is possible to use a proportional counter to distinguish between a- and 3-particles and between id tical particles of different energies inasmuch as different amounts of primary ionization are produced in these cases. 

The detector signal is a train of randomly distributed pulses corresponding to the detection of the individual photons. There are many signal periods without photons other signal periods contain one photon pulse. Periods with more than one photon are very rare. When a photon is detected, the time of the corresponding detector pulse in the signal period is measured. The events are collected in a memory by adding a T in a memory location with an address proportional to the detection time. After many photons, the distribution of the detection times, i.e. the waveform of the optical pulse, builds up in the memory. 

Routing modules exist for different detector types. For detectors delivering TTL output pulses, such as the Perkin Elmer SPCM-AQR APD modules or the Hamamatsu H7421 PMT module, the router is relatively simple. The detector pulses can be connected directly to the discriminators D1 to Dn. 

The TCSPC-FCS technique can also be used in conjunction with a continuous laser. Of course, in this case the measurement does not deliver a meaningful miero time, and no lifetime data are obtained. Because the TCSPC module needs a synchronisation pulse to finish the time measurement for a recorded photon, an artificial stop pulse must be provided. This can be the delayed detector pulse itself or a signal from a pulse generator see Fig. 5.116. 

Afterpulses of PMTs are difficult to detect in a standard TCSPC setup. The afterpulses appear within a few microseconds after the detection of a photon. However, TCSPC records only one detector pulse per signal period. An afterpulse is recorded only if it appears in a new signal period and after the dead time caused by the previously detected photon. Afterpulsing then shows up as a signal-dependent background (see Fig. 7.31, page 294). 

The afterpulsing probability can be measured by illuminating the detector by a source of continuous classic light, such as an incandescent lamp or an LED, and recording the detector pulses in the FIFO (time-tag) mode of a TCSPC module. 

At first glance it may appear necessary to build an amplifier fast enough so that it does not broaden the detector pulses. This would require about 1 GHz for conventional PMTs and more than 3 GHz for MCPs. However, in practice the signal bandwidth is limited by the discriminators in the CFD as well. The input bandwidth of the discriminators is usually of the order of 1 GHz, so that an amplifier bandwidth above 1 to 2 GHz does not improve the timing performance noticeably. More important than extreme bandwidth are linearity and low noise, especially low noise pickup from the environment (see Sect. 7.5.4, page 311). A good preamplifier should amplify the detector pulses without noticeable nonlinearity up to the maximum CFD threshold of the TCSPC module, i.e. about 500 mV. This is no problem for the amplifiers used in the circuit shown in Fig. 7.38. 

The zero cross level adjustment minimises the timing jitter induced by amplitude jitter of the detector pulses. The zero cross level is therefore often called walk adjust". In early TCSPC systems the walk adjust had an enormous influenee on the shape of the instrument response function (IRF). In newer, more advaneed systems the influence is smaller. The reason is probably that detectors with shorter single electron response are used and the discriminators in the newer CFDs are faster. Therefore, the effective slope of the zero cross transition is steeper, with a correspondingly smaller influence of the zero eross level. Figure 7.63 shows the IRF for an XP2020UR linear-focused PMT and an H5773-20 photosensor module for different zero cross levels. 

The pulse induction (PI) type of detector pulses a radio frequency signal into the ground and is not affected by iron minerals (negative) and salt water (positive). It is good to use where the terrain varies from wet to dry or where uneven patches of mineral sand are found, as it does not have to be retuned. The PI detector will respond to hot rocks and is unaffected by salt water. The PI detector is often used in underwater configurations. Some larger and newer PI instruments are capable of determining the depth of an object fairly accurately. 

Piezoelectric transducers are key components in medical ultrasound imaging and are used both as the acoustic source and the detector (pulse-echo teclmique). The uses for ultrasound are numerous and include examination of the fetus in the mother s womb as shown in Figure 31.22 and high-resolution imaging of intravascular structures. PZT is the ceramic of choice for this application mainly because it has a high k and is inexpensive compared to some of the other options such as polymer piezoelectrics. 

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