Response of polymer solid state nuclear track detectors to high energy charged particles

✍ Scribed by F. Spurný

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-245X
• DOI: 10.1016/0735-245x(84)90080-2

✦ Synopsis

The response of some polymer solid state nuclear track detectors to high energy protons and helium nuclei was studied. Detectors studied were CR 39; Koda~ materials CN 85, CA 80-15, and LR ll5; and Melinex O, charged par-ticl~s energy v~ried between 0.2 and 0.4 GeV per nuclei. Responses observed are between lO-and 10-4 tracks per particle, following general sensitivity of a detector. Results obtained are analyzed and discussed, some dosimetry applications of detectors are presented.

KEYWORDS

Track detection, polymer solid state track detectors, high energy charged particles, dosimstry applications of track etching, dosimetry in space