Neutron Spectroscopy with Scintillation Detectors using Wavelets

...................................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ v DEDICATION ................................................................................................................... vi LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................. ix LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................ x CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 1 1.1 Project Motivation and Objectives...................................................................... 1 1.2 Radiation Detection ............................................................................................ 3 1.3 Scintillators ......................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Spectrum Unfolding ............................................................................................ 9 1.4 Wavelets ............................................................................................................ 12 CHAPTER 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................ 15 2.1 Background ....................................................................................................... 15 2.1 Regularization Methods .................................................................................... 15 2.2 Least Squares Methods ..................................................................................... 18 2.3 Maximum Entropy Method............................................................................... 20 2.4 Iterative Unfolding Methods ............................................................................. 21 2.5 Stochastic Methods ........................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER 3 NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUE ....................................... 25