Browsing by Author "Aliaga-Rossel, R."

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    Denoising of gamma-ray signals by interval-dependent thresholds of wavelet analysis
    (2006) Zhang, Qidao; Aliaga-Rossel, R.; Choi, P.
    Fast Fourier transform and wavelet analysis methods were used to denoise electrical signals by a soft thresholding technique. A neutron pulse of 14 MeV is sent over a sample; as a consequence of the interaction between the sample and the neutrons, multi-spectral gamma rays are emitted by the sample. The gamma-rays were measured using three photo multiplier tubes, which detect optical signals coming from three filtered detectors made of plastic scintillator material. Applying wavelet analysis was possible to realize that the signal can be divided into three different regions. Each region has different thresholds; therefore, different frequency components can be used independently in each region. Comparisons of this method with the fast Fourier transform are presented. In this particular application, it was found that the wavelet transform produces a much better way of denoising the signals in terms of keeping the characteristic high frequency at the start of the signals; this feature allows the differential classification of the signals and the consequent identification of the component of the sample. The preliminary results presented here are the first attempt to identify the chemical composition of samples using this method.
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    Refractive optical measurements on the Llampüdkeñ generator
    (2006) Suzuki, F.; Veloso Espinosa, Felipe; Molina, F.; Mitchell, I.; Chuaqui, H.; Aliaga-Rossel, R.; Favre, M.; Wyndham, E.
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    Space and time resolved observations of plasma dynamics in a compressional gas embedded Z-pinch
    (IET, 1996) Soto, L.; Chuaqui, Hernán; Favre Domínguez, Mario Benjamin; Saavedra Sanchez, Renato Alejandro; Wyndham Hodder, Edmund Sydenham; Aliaga-Rossel, R.; Mitchell, I.
    Recent experiments in a gas embedded compressional Z-pinch are presented. The experiments have been carried out in H2 at 1/3 atm, using a pulse power generator capable of delivering a dI/dt > 1012 A/s. The pinch is initiated by a focused laser pulse, which is coaxial with a cylindrical DC rnicrodischarge. This configuration results in double column pinch at early times, which at current rise evolves into a gas embedded compressional Z-pinch. Diagnostics used are Rogowskii coil, single frame holographic interferometry and holographic shadowgraphy, visible streak camera images from which, current, density, line density, pinch radius and plasma motion are obtained. The pinch is characterized by a maximum on axis density which is much higher than the expected value from filling pressure, with a Bennett temperature of 40 eV at 130 kA‥ Results shown confirm the high degree of compression achievable with the composite preionization scheme.