A Study on fast digital discrimination of neutron and -ray for improvement neutron emission profile measurement

中性子分布計測の高性能化のための高速デジタル処理中性子-線弁別手法の研究

内田 雄大*; 高田 英治*; 藤崎 明広*; 磯部 光孝*; 小川 国大*; 篠原 孝司; 富田 英生*; 河原林 順*; 井口 哲夫*

Uchida, Yuki*; Takada, Eiji*; Fujisaki, Akihiro*; Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Ogawa, Kunihiro*; Shinohara, Koji; Tomita, Hideki*; Kawarabayashi, Jun*; Iguchi, Tetsuo*

Neutron and -ray discrimination with a digital signal processing system has been used to measure the neutron emission profile in magnetic confinement fusion devices. However, a sampling rate must be set low to extend the measurement time because the memory storage is limited. Time jitter decreases a discrimination quality due to a low sampling rate. As described in this paper, a new charge comparison method was developed. Furthermore, automatic neutron- discrimination method was examined using a probabilistic approach. Analysis results were investigated using the figure of merit. Results show that the discrimination quality was improved. Automatic discrimination was applied using the EM algorithm and k-means algorithm.