\underline {LA}nthanum \underline Bromide \underline Detector Array of \underline ATOMKI (LABDA)

Recently, a LaBr\(_3\)(Ce) \(\gamma \)-spectrometer called LABDA has been designed and built at the HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary. To advance the use of the detector system for nuclear physics and nuclear application measurements, the performance parameters were determined. For the suppression of the intrinsic \(\alpha \)-background of the detectors caused by the production technology, pulse shape discrimination methods were applied using digital pulse processing. A quantitative study of the different methods confirms that the LABDA detector system is suitable for low-background high-energy \(\gamma \)-ray measurements. Abstract Published by the Jagiellonian University 2026 authors