Calculation of inertness effect of a preamplifier on amplitude dependence of shaper time mark drift on pulse rise time

A quantitative estimating the effect of the inertness of the intermediate integrating link between the detector and discriminator on the accuracy of the time mark is made. Given are the charts showing dependence of the accuracy of the time mark on tau1/tsub(inc) ratio (tau1-is the time constant of inertia link integration, tsub(inc) is the time of the leading edge increase) for the exponential and linear edges of the input signal. It is shown that at the exponential and linear edges the time mark accuracy approximates the arithmetic sum of the input signal edge duration within 0.5 - 0.05 amplitude and natural accuracy of the discriminator time mark