Digital Pulse Shape Discrimination in Triple-Layer Phoswich Detectors Using Fuzzy Logic

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2739-2748

  Yousefi, Siavash ^a   Lucchese, Luca ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital pulse shape discrimination; fuzzy logic; nuclear spectroscopy; phoswich detectors; wavelet de noising

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008023972     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2004701     Document Type: Article

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