Published April 21, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

New acoustic instrumentation for the SIMPLE superheated droplet detector

  • 1. Centro de Fisica Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 2. Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, IST, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 3. Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear, Estrada Nacional 10, 2686-953 Sacavem (Portugal)

Description

Previous acoustic instrumentation of the SIMPLE detector has relied on the use of a low-cost piezoelectric transducer, which was generally unable to provide discrimination between true bubble nucleation events and ambiental sources of acoustic noise. The use of a high-quality electret microphone and adaptive electronics is shown to provide this capacity through reduced noise levels and distinct fast Fourier transforms of the event registration

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.02.012

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2008.02.012;
PII
S0168-9002(08)00226-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
589
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 72-84
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40015161
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
BUBBLES; CAPACITY; DROPLETS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LIQUIDS; NOISE; NUCLEATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SIGNALS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRICITY; FLUIDS; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTICLES; TRANSFORMATIONS

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