STATISTICS OF TIME-CORRELATED PULSES IN THE PRESENCE OF A NON-EXTENDIBLE DEAD-TIME

Obtaining the statistics of time-correlated detector pulses in the pre sence of a non-extendible dead time is a difficult theoretical problem . A theory developed recently by the authors to tackle such problems i s extended further to derive expressions for the probability distribut ion of counts in count triggered and randomly triggered intervals, the m-fold interval distribution between counts, the two time probability function f2 and the variance of the number of counts. The theoretical variance thus obtained is compared with experimental measurements and Monte Carlo simulations.