Discovery of a new ECE parameter affecting the response of polymer track detectors

✍ Scribed by M. Sohrabi; M. Katouzi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Weight: 263 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-8078
• DOI: 10.1016/0969-8078(93)90039-7

✦ Synopsis

The pressure applied to the electrochemical etching (ECE) chamber system and in turn to the rubber washers holding a detector tight in place was discovered to be a new parameter in ECE having a direct effect on internal heating and thus on the detector's response. The type, material, shape and size of the washers showed significant effects on the detector's response. Special pressure ECE (PECE) chambers with measurable and reproducible pressure were designed, constructed and used in this study. The effects observed seem to be due to forced vibrations of the detector in an electric field the degree of which depends on the pressure applied and stretching the detector, llke winding the strings of a muslcal instrument. The results of the above studies are presented and discussed.