Abstract
Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei, GRIFFIN, is a new experimental facility for radioactive decay studies at the TRIUMF-ISAC laboratory. This article describes the details of the custom designed GRIFFIN digital data acquisition system. The features of the system that will enable high-precision half-life and branching ratio measurements with levels of uncertainty better than 0.05% are described. The system has demonstrated the ability to effectively collect signals from High-purity germanium crystals at counting rates up to 50 kHz while maintaining good energy resolution, detection efficiency and spectral quality.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 85-104 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 853 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Digital electronics
- Digital signal processing
- HPGe
- ISAC
- TRIUMF
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Instrumentation