학술논문

One- and Two-Pole Compensation of Charge- Sensitive Amplifiers With Resistive Feedback to Improve the Energy Resolution in GRETA
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 70(10):2344-2351 Oct, 2023
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Detectors
Field programmable gate arrays
Gamma-rays
Signal processing algorithms
Energy resolution
Matlab
Resistors
Digital signal processing (DSP)
digital spectroscopy
energy resolution
field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
high counting rates
numerical analysis in time domain
pole–zero compensation (PZC)
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
The gamma-ray energy tracking array (GRETA) is a detector system currently under construction in the USA. The energy of the gamma ray is measured in real time inside field-programmable gate array (FPGA), employing the typical processing chain of the shaper, pole–zero compensation (PZC), baseline restoration, and pulse high analysis. In this article, we propose a two-pole PZC for GRETA based on the analysis of the charge-sensitive amplifier (CSA). We derived the time- and discrete-domain versions of the PZC and implemented the discrete version. We present the implementation of the two-pole PZC inside an FPGA to meet the high computational rate required for GRETA. The full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) energy resolution of the 60Co 1.33-MeV line at 100 kgammas/s was improved by about 23% for the two-pole PZC compared to the one-pole PZC.