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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Année : 2018

New methods to identify low energy $^3$He with Silicon-based detectors

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Methods to discriminate low energy mass-3 particles using Silicon detectors are reviewed. The time-of-flight technique based on analog electronics and measuring time between a reference signal and the charge signal from the Silicon detector does not allow to discriminate 3He from H. One method consists in adding a thin layer of Silicon (typically of ) to recover the standard discrimination by E-E identification matrix. Strong inhomogeneities in thickness are observed for these thin detectors. Difficulties in handling such detectors have led to investigate numerical approaches using reverse-mounted neutron transmutation doped Silicon detectors. First, the pulse shape analysis (PSA) technique has been investigated on the current and charge signals. PSA enables the discrimination of tritons and 3He and also 3He and 4He with good figures of merit. Secondly, the time of flight between two digitized signals (a reference signal from the beam pulse and the current or the charge signal) is presented. Both numerical techniques give promising results for the identification of light particles with Silicon detectors.
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hal-02290795 , version 1 (18-09-2019)

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M. Assié, A. Matta, B. Le Crom, M. Chabot, D. Mengoni, et al.. New methods to identify low energy $^3$He with Silicon-based detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2018, 908, pp.250-255. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2018.08.050⟩. ⟨hal-02290795⟩
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