The correction for the counting yield in nuclear spectroscopy

Pulser and live timer are alternate tools. Dead time effects can be expressed in terms of a pulse rate factor of the counting yield. The task of their correction should be shifted from the live timer of the ADC to a central timing unit. A new method is proposed, combining the advantages of the pulser and the live timer, whereby each selected and accepted event is adjoined to a clock time interval and each selected but not accepted event to a dead time interval. The length of each interval is determined by the arrival of the next selected event. (author)