KEF/VIJF Virtual Instrumentation in Nuclear Physics

Lecturer: Jiří Pechoušek
Seminar: 2 hours/week
Credits: 3
Summer semester
Form of course completion: colloquium

• Principles of the virtual instrumentation – usage of the LabVIEW,  high-performance DAQ systems application, developing of the real-time systems with RTOS (PXI, CompactRIO, FPGA).
• Synchronization and triggering techniques – signal processing synchronization and signal generation, analog and digital trigger types, how to start measurements.
• Detector signal processing – types of the detectors (basic characteristics, output signals), digital signal processing, DSP techniques for acquiring/shaping/analysis of impulses, spectrometer dead-time optimization.
• Amplitude and time signal analysis – how to measure SCA and MCA spectra, methods for impulses pile-up rejection and correction, measurement of the photon/particle time-of-flight (TOF).
• Design of the Mössbauer spectrometer in VI – principles of the DAQ in MS, synchronization for generation of the source velocity signal and detector signal analysis, data accumulation, physical principles of the Mossbauer effect.
• Coincidence methods – principles of the coincidence/anticoincidence measurements systems, DSP techniques for TOF determination, how to measure lifetime of the excited nuclear states, design of the time differential Mössbauer spectrometer (TDMS).
• Distributed nuclear experiments – VI the world experiments.