Improvement in Trapezoidal Pulse Shaping Pile-Up in Nuclear Signal Processing

Abstract

In digital nuclear spectroscopy, trapezoidal shaping is widely used. Compared with traditional CR-RC4 semi-Gaussian shaping, it has a better energy resolution and higher counting rates, but does not void the pulse pile-up in the case of extreme counting rates. In this paper, a new recursive algorithm is proposed that can improve the anti-pile-up ability, and is easy to implement in any DSP-based processor that is used in any digital pulse shaping filter section. The complete deduction and simulation are presented in this paper.