低水平α能谱测量中,由于α射线的统计涨落和探测器电子学电路的噪声,所得α能谱有严重的谱线噪声。为给精确的α能谱解谱工作做预处理,我们用基于金硅面垒探测器的便携式α能谱仪,在不同真空度下测量239Pu的α能谱,将离散小波变换法应用于α能谱去噪光滑处理,并提出光滑效果评价的新方法。结果表明,与传统多项式最小二乘法相比较,对低水平、高噪声的α能谱去噪,离散小波变换法效果更优。
Background: The α particle has a strong ionization but weak penetration ability, and some factors, such as α radioactive source self-absorption, incomplete charge collection, electronic noise and statistical fluctuation, etc. have significant influence on the experimental α spectra synthetically, which can lead to a long tail at low-energy side and serious spectra noise. Purpose: The aim is to reduce the statistical fluctuation and electronics noise in detector, so as to preprocess data for the deconvolution of α spectra. Methods: In this study a portable α spectrometer with a Au-Si surface barrier detector was applied to obtain α spectra of 239Pu under vacuum conditions of -0.01 MPa, -0.02 MPa, -0.03 MPa, -0.04 MPa and -0.05 MPa. A discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method for α spectra smoothing and a new smoothing evaluation method were proposed, and tested on those spectra data for comparative study. Results: The results showed that DWT method had less damage on the peak compared with least squares polynomial smoothing method. The D(r) and ξ values of DWT were greater and x2 values were closer to 1 compared with those of least squares polynomial smoothing method. Conclusion: The DWT method is better than the traditional least squares polynomial smoothing method in smoothing low-level and high noise α spectra.