A smoothing algorithm for energy spectrum based on differential nonlinearity(DNL) error elimination with total counts conservation for high-energy particle detector systems is presented. It is physics based and is onl...A smoothing algorithm for energy spectrum based on differential nonlinearity(DNL) error elimination with total counts conservation for high-energy particle detector systems is presented. It is physics based and is only determined by the DNL error of analog-to-digital converter device itself. From the experimental results, this algorithm slightly improves both noise performance and energy resolution, while greatly reduces the testing errors by almost a half compared to their original values. In addition, the reduced-x^2 statistic for evaluating the Gaussian fitting goodness is significantly reduced by almost two orders after smoothing. As a typical verification example,this algorithm is successfully applied in the ground calibration of the Low Energy X-ray Instrument onboard the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope(HXMT-LE) satellite,lending it a powerful, nondestructive and low-cost tool for both calibration and data processing for high-energy particle detector systems.展开更多
基金supported by the HXMT Projectthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11603027)
文摘A smoothing algorithm for energy spectrum based on differential nonlinearity(DNL) error elimination with total counts conservation for high-energy particle detector systems is presented. It is physics based and is only determined by the DNL error of analog-to-digital converter device itself. From the experimental results, this algorithm slightly improves both noise performance and energy resolution, while greatly reduces the testing errors by almost a half compared to their original values. In addition, the reduced-x^2 statistic for evaluating the Gaussian fitting goodness is significantly reduced by almost two orders after smoothing. As a typical verification example,this algorithm is successfully applied in the ground calibration of the Low Energy X-ray Instrument onboard the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope(HXMT-LE) satellite,lending it a powerful, nondestructive and low-cost tool for both calibration and data processing for high-energy particle detector systems.
