NEW PARADIGM IN NEUTRON FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS: EXTRACTING THE STATISTICS OF DISCRETE DETECTION EVENTS FROM TIME-RESOLVED SIGNALS OF FISSION CHAMBERS

Paper in proceeding, 2021

In 2012, L. Pál suggested a powerful stochastic model of the continuous current of fission chambers [1]. The suggested formalism made it possible to extend the traditional Campbelling techniques to treating correlated detection events, as well as to extract information on the higher order moments of the underlying discrete pulse counting process. This opened up the possibility to perform fluctuation analysis of discrete detection processes from time-resolved detector currents, which is free from the dead time problem. In this paper the methodology and the applications are briefly described. Experimental verification will be presented in a companion paper in the same session.