3. I  Linear and Logical Pulse II  Instruments Standard
Ch 17 GK
I  Linear and Logical Pulse
II  Instruments Standard
III  Application Specific Integrated Circuits
IV  Summary of Pulse Processing Units
V  Components common to many applications.
VI Pulse Counting Systems
VII Pulse Height Analysis
VIII Digital Pulse Processing
IX  System Involving Pulse Timing
a) Time Pick off methods
b) Measurements of Timing Properties
 c) Modular Instruments for Timing Measurements
X Pulse shape discrimination

19. 10.9 PULSE-SHAPE DISCRIMINATION
Pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) is the name given to a process that differentiates pulses produced by different types of particles in the same detector. PSD has most common use to discriminate between pulses generated by neutrons and gammas in organic scintillators (see also Chap. 14). Measurement of the amount of light produced in organic scintillators by neutrons and gammas shows that both the differential and integral light intensities are different as functions of time. It is obvious that the pulses from neutrons and gammas have different time characteristics, and it is this property that is used as the basis for PSD.