“…Most of the methods-analog or digital-that aim to improve the timing resolution of the HPGe detector optimize the time pick-off algorithm by determining one set of time pick-off parameters for all the HPGe detector waveshapes. A single set of parameters, however, lead to large spread in time pick-off and often ~ 1 to 5 ns timing resolutions are attained only by rejecting a large fraction of waveshapes that are responsible for the time broadening [13][14][15]. The rejection of signals adversely affects the experimental count rate and can lead to loss of valuable information-especially for events involving low energy γ photons [5].…”