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

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*

Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(11), p.11E118_1 - 11E118_4, 2014/11

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4891711

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.