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The Time Structure of Hadronic Showers in Calorimeters with Scintillator and with Gas Readout
Hadronic showers are characterized by a rich particle structure in the
spatial as well as in the time domain. The prompt component comes from
relativistic fragments that deposit energy at the ns scale, while late
components are associated predominantly with neutrons in the cascade. To
measure the impact of these late components, two experiments, based on gaseous
and plastic active layers with steel and tungsten absorbers, were set up. The
different choice for the material of the active layers produces distinct
responses to neutrons, and consequently to late energy depositions. After
discussing the technical aspects of these systems, we present a comparison of
the signals, read out with fast digitizers with deep buffers, and provide
detailed information of the time structure of hadronic showers over a long
sampling window.Comment: proceeding for CALOR2014, 6 pages, 5 figure
Novel method for hit-position reconstruction using voltage signals in plastic scintillators and its application to Positron Emission Tomography
Currently inorganic scintillator detectors are used in all commercial Time of
Flight Positron Emission Tomograph (TOF-PET) devices. The J-PET collaboration
investigates a possibility of construction of a PET scanner from plastic
scintillators which would allow for single bed imaging of the whole human body.
This paper describes a novel method of hit-position reconstruction based on
sampled signals and an example of an application of the method for a single
module with a 30 cm long plastic strip, read out on both ends by Hamamatsu
R4998 photomultipliers. The sampling scheme to generate a vector with samples
of a PET event waveform with respect to four user-defined amplitudes is
introduced. The experimental setup provides irradiation of a chosen position in
the plastic scintillator strip with an annihilation gamma quanta of energy
511~keV. The statistical test for a multivariate normal (MVN) distribution of
measured vectors at a given position is developed, and it is shown that signals
sampled at four thresholds in a voltage domain are approximately normally
distributed variables. With the presented method of a vector analysis made out
of waveform samples acquired with four thresholds, we obtain a spatial
resolution of about 1 cm and a timing resolution of about 80 p
Oscilloscope measurement of the synchronous phase shift in an electron storage ring
We present a new technique to measure the synchronous phase shift in an electron storage ring. A digital sampling oscilloscope is used to observe the cavity and beam signals simultaneously, and the amplitude and relative phase are obtained from a Fourier transform of the time-domain data. This procedure gives 6 mdeg resolution and is largely insensitive to input signal amplitude variations. The measurement system was used to study the dependence of the synchronous phase shift on beam current, gap voltage, and beam energy in the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source electron storage ring
Adaptive Sampling with Mobile Sensor Networks
Mobile sensor networks have unique advantages compared with wireless sensor networks. The mobility enables mobile sensors to flexibly reconfigure themselves to meet sensing requirements. In this dissertation, an adaptive sampling method for mobile sensor networks is presented. Based on the consideration of sensing resource constraints, computing abilities, and onboard energy limitations, the adaptive sampling method follows a down sampling scheme, which could reduce the total number of measurements, and lower sampling cost. Compressive sensing is a recently developed down sampling method, using a small number of randomly distributed measurements for signal reconstruction. However, original signals cannot be reconstructed using condensed measurements, as addressed by Shannon Sampling Theory. Measurements have to be processed under a sparse domain, and convex optimization methods should be applied to reconstruct original signals. Restricted isometry property would guarantee signals can be recovered with little information loss. While compressive sensing could effectively lower sampling cost, signal reconstruction is still a great research challenge. Compressive sensing always collects random measurements, whose information amount cannot be determined in prior. If each measurement is optimized as the most informative measurement, the reconstruction performance can perform much better.
Based on the above consideration, this dissertation is focusing on an adaptive sampling approach, which could find the most informative measurements in unknown environments and reconstruct original signals. With mobile sensors, measurements are collect sequentially, giving the chance to uniquely optimize each of them. When mobile sensors are about to collect a new measurement from the surrounding environments, existing information is shared among networked sensors so that each sensor would have a global view of the entire environment. Shared information is analyzed under Haar Wavelet domain, under which most nature signals appear sparse, to infer a model of the environments. The most informative measurements can be determined by optimizing model parameters. As a result, all the measurements collected by the mobile sensor network are the most informative measurements given existing information, and a perfect reconstruction would be expected.
To present the adaptive sampling method, a series of research issues will be addressed, including measurement evaluation and collection, mobile network establishment, data fusion, sensor motion, signal reconstruction, etc. Two dimensional scalar field will be reconstructed using the method proposed. Both single mobile sensors and mobile sensor networks will be deployed in the environment, and reconstruction performance of both will be compared.In addition, a particular mobile sensor, a quadrotor UAV is developed, so that the adaptive sampling method can be used in three dimensional scenarios
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Compressive power spectrum sensing for vibration-based output-only system identification of structural systems in the presence of noise
Motivated by the need to reduce monetary and energy consumption costs of wireless sensor networks in undertaking output-only/operational modal analysis of engineering structures, this paper considers a multi-coset analog-toinformation converter for structural system identification from acceleration response signals of white noise excited linear damped structures sampled at sub-Nyquist rates. The underlying natural frequencies, peak gains in the frequency domain, and critical damping ratios of the vibrating structures are estimated directly from the sub-Nyquist measurements and, therefore, the computationally demanding signal reconstruction step is by-passed. This is accomplished by first employing a power spectrum blind sampling (PSBS) technique for multi-band wide sense stationary stochastic processes in conjunction with deterministic non-uniform multi-coset sampling patterns derived from solving a weighted least square optimization problem. Next, modal properties are derived by the standard frequency domain peak picking algorithm. Special attention is focused on assessing the potential of the adopted PSBS technique, which poses no sparsity requirements to the sensed signals, to derive accurate estimates of modal structural system properties from noisy sub- Nyquist measurements. To this aim, sub-Nyquist sampled acceleration response signals corrupted by various levels of additive white noise pertaining to a benchmark space truss structure with closely spaced natural frequencies are obtained within an efficient Monte Carlo simulation-based framework. Accurate estimates of natural frequencies and reasonable estimates of local peak spectral ordinates and critical damping ratios are derived from measurements sampled at about 70% below the Nyquist rate and for SNR as low as 0db demonstrating that the adopted approach enjoys noise immunity
Signals on Graphs: Uncertainty Principle and Sampling
In many applications, the observations can be represented as a signal defined
over the vertices of a graph. The analysis of such signals requires the
extension of standard signal processing tools. In this work, first, we provide
a class of graph signals that are maximally concentrated on the graph domain
and on its dual. Then, building on this framework, we derive an uncertainty
principle for graph signals and illustrate the conditions for the recovery of
band-limited signals from a subset of samples. We show an interesting link
between uncertainty principle and sampling and propose alternative signal
recovery algorithms, including a generalization to frame-based reconstruction
methods. After showing that the performance of signal recovery algorithms is
significantly affected by the location of samples, we suggest and compare a few
alternative sampling strategies. Finally, we provide the conditions for perfect
recovery of a useful signal corrupted by sparse noise, showing that this
problem is also intrinsically related to vertex-frequency localization
properties.Comment: This article is the revised version submitted to the IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing on May, 2016; first revision was submitted
on January, 2016; original manuscript was submitted on July, 2015. The work
includes 16 pages, 8 figure
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