Introduction
This interdisciplinary workshop, open to all IEEE NSS-MIC participants, offers a venue to share problems, experience, ideas, ongoing R&D, methods and tools related to software reliability in the experimental context of NSS-MIC research areas. This workshop will offer hands-on experience with radiological sources to demonstrate how modern digital data-acquisition electronics and digital pulse-processing firmware may be employed to trigger on and acquire a signal, save data to waveform, and perform high-level data-acquisition functions such as coincidence/anti-coincidence, pulse-shape discrimination, histogram building, and spectroscopy.
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Submission Topics
Each workshop session will consist of two parts:
A theoretical portion, which will compare a digital solution to the traditional analog solution. This introductory portion will also introduce the student to several critical concepts and parameters such as:
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What happens when the signal gets into the digitizer
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How do you trigger on the signal, both internally and externally
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How the digitizer memory and FPGA work
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How waveforms are saved
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DC Offset
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How the digitizer is able to "look back in time"
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Coincidence and Anti-coincidence
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Build and depict histograms
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Charge Integration and PSD, including fine timing capability
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PHA & Spectroscopy
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A practical portion, in which the attendees will perform exercises demonstrating the concepts listed above using NaI crystal and EJ-309 liquid detectors. The Georgia Institute of Technology laboratory consists of 6 stations accommodating 12 people at a time.
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Important Date
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Oct 22
2017
Conference Date
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Oct 22 2017
Registration deadline
Contact Information
- Anna Erickson
- an******@me.gatech.edu
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