Kicksorter (Noun)
Meaning
Scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The kicksorter is used in nuclear pulse spectroscopy to eliminate background noise and low-level signals from the data analysis.
- To improve the accuracy of the geiger counter reading the scientist added a kicksorter to filter out pulses lower than a certain threshold.
- When using digital counters and kicksorters in radiation detection the pulses are sorted according to their amplitude.
- A kicksorter consists of an analog-to-digital converter to convert the signal pulses into a digital signal.
- By filtering out low-amplitude pulses in the detector, the kicksorter allowed researchers to focus on signals with potentially interesting information.