Partial Recovery of Events Lost in Paralyzable Event Counters

Many event detector-counter systems have dead times associated with them during which events are not detected and are lost. A method is proposed for recovery of some of the events occurring during the dead times of a paralyzable event counter. Simulation and theoretical results are presented. As the event recovery method relies on a knowledge of the dead time, a method, using only the event recovery technique, through which this knowledge can be obtained is indicated. Several possible cases in which this result could be used to improve an event counting system are also stated.