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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2014
Saint-gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc., Worcester, MA (US);
Michael R. Kusner, Auburn Township, OH (US);
Peter R. Menge, Novelty, OH (US);
SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC., Worcester, MA (US);
Abstract
A radiation detector can include both an upper-level and a low-level discriminator. Pulses with amplitudes below a lower pre-selected value will be discarded as noise by the low-level discriminator. Only pulses with amplitudes at or above the lower pre-selected amplitude but at or below a second higher pre-selected value will be subjected to PSD to distinguish between pulses corresponding to neutrons and pulses corresponding to gamma rays. Pulses with amplitudes above the second higher pre-selected value of the upper-level discriminator will be counted as neutron or ionic particle pulses without subjecting these pulses to any PSD.