Exploring the Relationship between Intensity and Readout Delay in the WNSL Data Acquisition System*

While the readout delay as a parameter of the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) is important in the detection of nuclear events and their lifetimes, every aspect of timing in a DAQ needs to be understood in order to get good data. Time correlations of the order of microseconds or more, larger than ones of nano-seconds we mostly used so far, are needed to identify isomers which was motivation for us to experimentally determine timing properties of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) DAQ. Using 137Ba as a standard source of well known intensities, the effect of different delays on intensities of detected peaks was explored for the Data Acquisition System at the WNSL. The resultant data from the Time to Digital Converters (TDC) and Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) was sorted, plotted and analyzed. The results of our test measurement will be presented.