Nuclear electronics - a direction in experimental methods of nuclear physics , in which electronic devices are used to obtain, convert and process information from particle detectors .
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General information
The short duration and high frequency of the studied processes of nuclear physics determines the requirement for electronic devices of high, on the order of 10 -9 s, time resolution. And the fact that at the same time the calculation and analysis of a large number of parameters — the amplitude of the signal, the time of its arrival, the coordinates of the points of its detection, etc., dictates the need for high-performance computers [1] .
Nuclear Electronics Components
The list of components used is determined by the tasks to be solved in nuclear electronics, consisting of the following [2] :
- when registering particles and photons of radiation, counting pulses from detectors is required
- when identifying the type of particles and studying their spectrum, an analysis of the pulse shape, determination of its amplitude and relative time delay between pulses is required
- when studying the spatial distribution of particles, registration of the numbers of “triggered” detectors or direct determination of the coordinate of the detection point is required
To solve existing problems, in addition to particle detectors, amplitude discriminators, transmission schemes and adders, multichannel time and amplitude analyzers, as well as devices for acquiring information from coordinate detectors, such as spark or proportional cameras, are used [3] .
Applications
In addition to nuclear physics, these methods are used in all studies having similar problems when working with ionizing radiation . For example, in chemistry, biology, medicine, space research [4] .
See also
- Nim
- CAMAC
- Fastbus
- ESONE
Notes
- ↑ Nuclear Electronics // Physical Encyclopedia. In 5 volumes. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Editor-in-chief A.M. Prokhorov . 1988.
- ↑ Schmidt H.-U. Measuring electronics in nuclear physics, trans. with it., Moscow: Mir, 1989 .-- 189 p.
- ↑ Kolpakov I.F. Electronic equipment on a line with computers in a physical experiment, Moscow: Atomizdat, 1974. - 232 p.
- ↑ Kovalsky E. Nuclear Electronics, trans. from English., M .: Atomizdat, 1972. - 360 p.