title: Digital instrumentation and management of dead time: first results on a NaI well-type detector setup.
abstract: The LNE-LNHB is engaged in a development program on digital instrumentation, the first step being the instrumentation of a NaI well-type detector set-up. The prototype acquisition card and its technical specifications are presented together with the first comparison with the classical NIM-based acquisition chain, for counting rates up to 100 kcps. The digital instrumentation is shown to be counting-loss free in this range. This validates the main option adopted in this project, namely the implementation of an extending dead time with live-time measurement already successfully used in the MTR2 NIM module developed at LNE-LNHB.
authors.affiliation: CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), Gif-sur-Yvette, France. censier@csnsm.in2p3.fr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Censier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bobin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bouchard
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aubineau-Lanièce