Scheme for determining the difference between two statistically distributed fluxes of pulses

The use of a difference method for determining particle flux intensity (e.g., in the case of satellite-borne radiation measurements) requires the separation of the useful data from measurements of signal plus background and background. This makes necessary the use of schemes that form a difference sequence of pulses from two sequences of statistically distributed pulsed fluxes. The scheme that is developed makes it possible to compensate the pulse-flux component determined by the noise background. Ways to reduce errors that arise, under certain conditions, in the determination of the difference of two pulsed fluxes are examined. An error analysis for different ratios of flux intensity is presented.