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NUCL SCI TECH (2016) 27:138 DOI 10.1007/s41365-016-0137-z A new digital pulse processing method for 2πa and 2πβ emitter measurement 1 1 2 2 1 Zheng Tu • Ke-Zhu Song • Ming Zhang • Zhi-Jie Yang • Zhi-Guo Ding • 1 2 2 Hong-Wei Yu • Jun-Cheng Liang • Hao-Ran Liu Received: 20 April 2016 / Revised: 20 July 2016 / Accepted: 29 July 2016 © Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Nuclear Society, Science Press China and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 Abstract Digital pulse processing has developed rapidly Keywords Digital pulse processing . a and β emitter during recent years. Moreover, it has been widely applied measurement . FPGA in many fields. In this study, we introduce a digital pulse processing method for 2πa and 2πβ emitter measurement. Our digital pulse processing method for 2πa and 2πβ 1 Introduction emitter measurement is comprised of a field-programmable gate-array-based acquisition card and a pulse-height anal- Digital pulse processing is a signal processing technique ysis routine. We established two channels (one for the a in which detector signals (preamplifier or shaping amplifier emitter and one for the β emitter) on an acquisition board output) are digitized and processed in order to extract using an analog-to-digital converter with a 16-bit resolu- information. Such techniques have undergone rapid tion at a speed of 100 million samples per second. In this development in recent decades [ 1–3]. These new tech- study, we used captured and stored data to analyze emis- niques have been applied in many fields [4–6]. The main sion rate