am trying to find a program that takes as an input from a card 6024E the pulse-signal from a scintillator with 1024 channels and high limit voltage 8volt,and gives an output the spectrum in a diagram counts/channel.if anyone can help me i would be gratefulAs always, Oleg gives a very detailed explanation.
But I'll try to propose to look at this problem from the slightly different point of view:
In many applications involving scintillators, PM's, ADC's and pulse peak detecting we do not really need the last one. Instead of detailed analysis of the pulse form in certain conditions it's much more easier to use a resettable analog integrater before the ADC - in other words, aquiring only resulting area beneath the pulse (usually this represents electric charge) and not it's form. Also this frequently reffered as QDC - charge (Q) to digital converter. In this case the rate of conversion will be one per pulse which greatly simplifies the final task. Full information about scintillater response pulse can be intere
sted if one wants information about decay time(s), pulse components and so on. For all others integral pulse area looks informative enough for me.