Nuclear electronics is a subfield ofelectronics concerned with the design and use of high-speed electronic systems fornuclear physics andelementary particle physics research, and for industrial and medical use.
Essential elements of such systems include fastdetectors forcharged particles, discriminators for separating them by energy,counters for counting the pulses produced by individual particles, fastlogic circuits (includingcoincidence and veto gates), for identification of particular types of complex particle events, andpulse height analyzers (PHAs) for sorting and countinggamma rays or particle interactions by energy, forspectral analysis.
Some of the essential components that make up the elements of a nuclear electronic analysis system include:
These elements were originally developed and built in the laboratories of the scientists doing the pioneering work in the field, but are nowadays designed, developed, and manufactured by a variety of specialized vendors:
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