In order to calibrate the Super-Kamiokande experiment for solar neutrino measurements, a linear accelerator (LINAC) for electrons was installed at the detector. LINAC data were taken at various positions in the detector volume, tracking the detector response in the variables relevant to solar neutrino analysis. In particular, the absolute energy scale is now known with less than 1% uncertainty.

We have developed a formalism suitable for calculation of the output spectrum of a detector continuously measuring quantum coherent oscillations in a solid-state qubit, starting from microscopic generalized Bloch equations. The results coincide with those obtained using Bayesian and master equation approaches. The previous results are generalized to the cases of arbitrary detector response and ...

We report on the behavior of CVD diamonds under intense electromagnetic radiation and on the response of the detector to high density of deposited energy. Diamonds have been found to remain unaffected after doses of 10 MGy of MeV-range photons and the diamond response to energy depositions of up to 250 GeV / cm 3 has been found to be linear to better than 2 %. These observations make diamond an...

A simplified guide is presented to assist in the understanding of detector specifications and to show how to relate them to the specific analysis to be performed. Sensitivity specifications should be detector-response unit independent and should relate to the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of the detector. The test compound and the data rate should be given. If the dynamic range is claimed to be l...

In [1] we proposed a spatially-variant method for removing noise from tomographic projection data using weighted spline smoothing. The projection model in [1] was based on detectors with the same width as their spacing. A better approximation for the detector response of many tomographs is a rectangular function or Gaussian function whose width is twice the detector spacing. (Such systems are a...

When in vivo proton dosimetry is performed with a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) detector, the response of the detector depends strongly on the linear energy transfer. The present study reports a practical method to correct the MOSFET response for linear energy transfer dependence by using a simplified Monte Carlo dose calculation method (SMC). A depth-output curve f...

in this paper a new algorithm is presented for coherent radar detection of targets, when distribution of the interference (clutter and noise) is non-gaussian. the neyman-pearson criterion is used for optimal detection and several successive received samples from a radar range cell are used for detection in the same cell. on the basis of recent empirical evidences, the interference distribution ...

PURPOSE The authors describe a new technique to determine the system presampled modulation transfer function (MTF) in digital radiography using only the detector noise response. METHODS A cascaded-linear systems analysis was used to develop an exact relationship between the two-dimensional noise power spectrum (NPS) and the presampled MTF for a generalized detector system. This relationship w...

Peirce (2007) proposed a two-stage conjunction detection model in which the outputs of first-stage neurons selective for the conjunction components were summed to give the conjunction-detector output. He argued that a saturating (monotonic) or supersaturating (nonmonotonic) nonlinearity on the outputs of the first-stage neurons made this detector more selective for conjunctions by increasing th...

Gamma-ray spectrometry measurements performed on site, or “in situ”, is a widely used and powerful method that can be employed both to identify and quantify ground deposited radionuclides. The purpose of this thesis is to improve the calibration of high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors for in situ measurements, and calculate the combined uncertainty and potential systematic effects. An improve...