Track etch parameters in CR-39 detectors for proton and alpha particles of different energies

High electronic excitation induced modifications by 100MeV O7+ and 150MeV Ni11+ ions in Makrofol KG polycarbonate film

“…Although it is well reported in the literature that light as well heavy ion irradiation used for the study of track etch properties of the polymers [35][36][37][38][39], it is still necessary to identify as to what are the physiochemical changes taking in the material. The effectiveness of these transformations produced in the polymer predominantly depends on the structure and the ion beam parameters (energy LET, fluence, ion, mass, charge, etc.)…”

“…Assignments of FTIR bands of PC polymer films. The asymmetric stretching of aromatic ether (C-O-C) absorbs[38,43] 1672 and 1633 carbonyl stretching vibration and to C@C stretching vibration of quinoid structure[45] 1689 attributed to carbonyl stretching vibration in phenylsalicylate compounds…”

Alpha particles energy estimation from track diameter development in a CR-39 detector

“…However, indications that these detectors can be used in principle at least, for charged particle energy analysis have come from studies related to tracks longitudinal profiles development. These properties include the track etch rate (V T ), the ratio of the bulk etch rate (V=V T /V B ) and the track saturation lengths (L S ) (Lounis et al, 2001;Nikezic and Yu, 2004;Balestra et al, 2007;Hermsdorf, 2011, Zaki et al, 2012. This is because these properties are directly related to the particle range (R) in the plastic material, which is direct measure of energy.…”

Discriminative detection of deposited radon daughters on CR-39 track detectors using TRIAC II code

“…Geometrical models [7][8][9][10][11] concerning the growth of the tracks' length predict that there is no linearity between the axis (major and minor) of elliptical tracks and the particles' energy. As a result, the identification of radon daughters with an alpha spectrometric method, based on the use of SSNTDs is not a trivial task [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”