Figure 1
The characteristic throughput curve predicted by formula (1) for counting above a simple discriminator and by formula (2) for the uncorrupted rate in a pulse-height spectrum. The natural parameters Ninτ and Noutτ are used where Nin is the event rate hitting the detector and Nout is the data capture rate. τ represents the detector/electronic dead time in the first case and the event occupancy time in the second case. This is the case of random incidence with no detectable beam structure. |