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108

Sey,

This instrument however, has its

pulses produced by the neutron of a reaction

with boron in the filling and as a result,

it's responses is essentially flat down to

neutron energies of about 10 KEV.

Now, the biacing circuit is de-

signed then, to accept pulses which are
greater than the minimum to discriminate be-

tween ambient nolee and radiation of other types.

There's another way in which you

can fail to diccriminate between neutron

radiation and radiation - well, specifically
ganma radiation and this is in the case known
as gamma "pylo®,
This 19° desipned on the asecumption

that the incoming pulses can be meoognized
ag individual events.

This ia the bias level.

Now, ordi-

narily, if they come in, the neutron pulse
might look like that roughly -- if the instantaneous dose rate is sufficiently large, they
are no longer resolved into individual events

and the gamma rate; pulse height then, is the
sum of the individual pulse heights produced
and as a result, may override the bias and be
counted as a neutron pulce,

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