AbstractsPhysics

Equipment has been constructed to increase the rate of accumulating energy spectrum data during the short beam burst of the McGill synchrocyclotron. The system operates by storing up to seven 100-nanosecond pulses per burst as lines of charge on the face of a conventional cathode-ray tube with a resolving time of 300 nanoseconds. An analogue output is provided for existing multichannel pulse height analyzers during the time between bursts. An analysis is given of the counting losses associated with the shape of the beam burst. [...]