State of Art in Multichannel Pulse Data Analysis

In many nuclear physics, biology and engineering experiments it is important to measure the probability distribution function of random processes. In this paper a survey and comparison of different measuring techniques are given. The following systems and their basic principles of operations are described: Single channel and multidiscriminator analyzers without memory. Systems with fast digital memories and computer oriented systems. Mean rate analyzer. Multiparameter analyzers. Analog memory analyzers with capacitors and with storage tubes. Associative megachannel analyzers. Most active zone encoder. Pseudo-random transformation mode megachannel analyzer. Window preselection. Event recording analyzers. Spectrum stabilization. Trends in probability distribution measurements.