Abstract:
A photomultiplier gain stabilization system maintains the mean output current of a photomultiplier at a constant level by compensating its variations through a modification of the illumination of its photocathode. The photocathode is coupled to a photoemissive diode, supplied with a current representative of the difference between the value of the mean current of the photomultiplier anode and a reference current value equal to at least the maximum value of the anode current.
Abstract:
In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a technique for stabilizing the gain of a radiation detector is described. In this technique, a reference radiation source having a predetermined energy spectrum is located adjacent, or enclosed within, a scintillator of a radiation detector. Those signals produced by the radiation detector which represent energies within an energy range defined by the reference source energy spectrum are selected and used to determine the relationship between the energy spectrum of the reference source and the energy spectrum of the selected detector signals. From this relationship, a reference signal is generated which is used to adjust the radiation detector gain in a nonlinear manner to cause the energy spectrum of the selected radiation detector signals to correspond to that of the reference radiation source.
Abstract:
In a tool for measuring the density of the geological formations traversed by a borehole, an apparatus corrects the effects of barite on the count rate of the pulses which are used for the density measurement and have an amplitude higher than a given threshold, by determining the deformations in the amplitude spectrum of these pulses and adjusting this threshold so as to compensate by the variation in the number of pulses taken into account, resulting from the adjustment, for the variation in the number of counted pulses resulting from the said deformations.