Automatic energy calibration of germanium detectors using fuzzy set theory

With the advent of multi-detector arrays, many tasks that are usually performed by physicists, such as energy calibration become very time consuming. There is therefore it need to develop more and more complex algorithms able to mimic human expertise. Fuzzy logic proposes a theoretical framework to build algorithms that are close to the human way of thinking. In this paper we apply fuzzy set theory in order to develop an automatic procedure for energy calibration. The algorithm, based on fuzzy concepts, has been tested on data taken with the EUROBALL IV gamma-ray array. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.