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However, an alternative method can use cosmic radiation to measure time response and through-put delay. Two plastic scintillator detectors in a coincidence system can detect an incident cosmic ray. If a third nTOF detector is placed between these coincident detectors, the output cosmic ray signal in the nTOF detector can be analyzed to produce the time response and through-put delay. Measurements taken using cosmic radiation were mostly within one standard deviation of data taken on the same detectors at an electron accelerator.","abstract_html":"Plastic scintillator-based neutron time-of-flight (nTOF) detectors are used to measure neutron signals from fusion experiments. These nTOF signals yield a temporal pulse width that is used to determine ion temperatures after the de-convolution of the experimentally determined detector time response and shifted to account for the detector through-put delay. Typically, time response and through-put delays are measured at an accelerator or laser facility. However, an alternative method can use cosmic radiation to measure time response and through-put delay. Two plastic scintillator detectors in a coincidence system can detect an incident cosmic ray. If a third nTOF detector is placed between these coincident detectors, the output cosmic ray signal in the nTOF detector can be analyzed to produce the time response and through-put delay. 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