Analysis of pulse height spectra from an organic scintillator spectrometer

Abstract

A suite of three computer codes has been written to analyse the pulse height spectra from an organic scintillator neutron or gamma ray spectrometer. Data prepared by the first code are submitted to the second which unfolds the pulse height spectra. Comparison and presentation of analysed data are performed by the third code. The spectrum unfolding process was tested by unfolding the fairly complex spectrum from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction, which was known from other measurements. The performance of the code when unfolding monoenergetic neutron responses was comparable to the performance of codes used by other workers.