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 |
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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 | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Feb 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Digital electronics
- Digital signal processing
- HPGe
- TRIUMF
- ISAC