Pulse shape analysis of a two fold clover detector with an EMD based new algorithm: A comparison

An investigation of Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) based noise filtering algorithm has been carried out on a mirror signal from a two fold germanium clover detector. EMD technique can decompose linear as well as nonlinear and chaotic signals with a precise frequency resolution. It allows to decompose the preamplifier signal (charge pulse) on an event-by-event basis. The filtering algorithm provides the information about the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) mainly dominated by the noise. It preserves the signal information and separates the overriding noise oscillations from the signals. The identification of noise structure is based on the frequency distributions of different IMFs. The preamplifier noise components which distort the azimuthal co-ordinates information have been extracted on the basis of the correlation between the different IMFs and the mirror signal. The correlation studies have been carried out both in frequency and time domain. The extracted correlation coefficient provides an important information regarding the pulse shape of the γ-ray interaction in the detector. A comparison between the EMD based and state-of-the-art wavelet based denoising techniques has also been made and discussed. It has been observed that the fractional noise strength distribution varies with the position of the collimated gamma-ray source. Above trend has been reproduced by both the denoising techniques.

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