Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Review of Scientific Instruments
62 (1991), S. 2822-2827
ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
We report in this article an analysis of the distortion of the time distribution due to the dead time of the detection chain. The special case of distributions coming from a pulsed source is considered and a relatively simple method for the reconstruction of the true time distribution is given. The method is applicable in both extended and nonextended dead times. It can be applied to correcting an experimental time distribution and, if the shape of the distribution is known, to deducing the true rate of events from that measured by a counter. An experimental method to simulate a pulsed source with a controllable mean production rate is also shown; the time distributions obtained from this source have been used as test distributions to prove the reliability of the reconstruction procedure.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1142219
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