scholarly journals A New Data Acquisition System for the Groningen Counters

Radiocarbon ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Van Der Plicht ◽  
H. J. Streurman ◽  
G. R. Schreuder

A new GPIB/IEEE-488 based data acquisition system has been built for the Groningen proportional counter setup, consisting of 11 counters. The IEEE bus is connected to an XT-compatible host PC. A versatile computer program controls the data entry; the same program can be used offline for final calculations.

Radiocarbon ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 781-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Michczyński ◽  
Tomasz Goslar ◽  
Anna Pazdur ◽  
Mieczysław F. Pazdur

We present here the principal ideas of a new, fully computerized data acquisition system with pulse-rise background reduction, developed in the Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory, and our first results. The new system uses a microprocessor-controlled pulse and coincidence analyzer for acquisition of data from 3 of 4 proportional counter sets. The analyzer acquires and stores information on the pulse's amplitudes and rise-times and their coincidence with guard counters and radio-frequency shield. This feature allows us to separate pulses using anticoincidence information and pulse-shape discrimination. The described method of background reduction led to a significant increase in the factor of merit on 2 of 3 counters tested.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-570
Author(s):  
Zeping YANG ◽  
Deqiang LIU ◽  
Qian WANG ◽  
Qiangming XIANG

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