Tuesday, December 11, 2012

1212.1738 (B. K. Alpert et al.)

Filters for High Rate Pulse Processing    [PDF]

B. K. Alpert, R. D. Horansky, D. A. Bennett, W. B. Doriese, J. W. Fowler, A. S. Hoover, M. W. Rabin, J. N. Ullom
We introduce a filter-construction method for pulse processing that differs in two respects from that in standard optimal filtering, in which the average pulse shape and noise-power spectral density are combined to create a convolution filter for estimating pulse heights. First, the proposed filters are computed in the time domain, to avoid periodicity artifacts of the discrete Fourier transform, and second, orthogonality constraints are imposed on the filters, to reduce the filtering procedure's sensitivity to unknown baseline height and pulse tails. We analyze the proposed filters, predicting energy resolution under several scenarios, and apply the filters to high-rate pulse data from gamma-rays measured by a transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1738

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