Description
PulseCounter Pro software is an essential tool for rapid nuclear experimentation. PulseCounter Pro comes standard with all the Automated Nuclear Lab (ANL) products and can be also used with the MCA-LITE family of products.
The software performs the following tasks:
- Configures ANL for a specific experiment by specifying which detectors or sensor are connected to the ANL channels and how each channel’s data must be acquired and processed;
- Manages experiments: each experiment is a collection of one or more ‘calibration’, ‘experiment’, and ‘background’ measurements;
- For each measurement records the count rate history and computes the count rate, the pulse width, and the rise time histograms as well as the pulse height (or the pulse energy) spectrum;
- Computes the count rate mean and the standard deviation, fits the count rate histogram to a Poisson distribution and reports the quality of the fit;
- Allows calibration of the pulse-height spectrum using an arbitrary number of the reference energy points;
- Allows recording raw detector signals for inspection and off-line measurement reanalysis using a different signal processing algorithm or a different set of pulse acceptance / rejection criteria;
- Allows browsing and inspection of signal shapes associated with the individual accepted or rejected detector pulses;
- Allows comparing measurements;
- Calculates statistical significance of results (Student’s T-Test and p-value) by comparing populations of the ‘background’ and the ‘experiment’ measurements;
- Allows aggregating, correlating and merging counts and spectra acquired from different detectors
Pulse Shaping Modes
- Trapezoidal
- Differential
- Integration
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