Different etching processes of damage track detectors for personnel neutron dosimetry

✍ Scribed by L. Tommasino; G. Zapparoli; P. Spiezia; R.V. Griffith; G. Espinosa

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 235 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-245X
• DOI: 10.1016/0735-245x(84)90116-9

✦ Synopsis

The advantages and limitations of different etching processes of CR-39 detectors for personnel neutron dosimetry are analysed. The chemical etching can be considered the converse of the electrochemical etching, since the former provides very poor response to low energy neutrons, while the latter greatly simplifies the registration of these neutrons. A foil of CR-39 etched electrochemically results in a simple and sensitive neutron dosimeter with a response proportional to the dose over the entire energy range of interest.

KEYWORDS

Solid state damage track detectors; chemical etching; electrochemical etching; personnel neutron dosimetry; albedo detector.