A study of etching conditions and resolution power of plastic detector CR-39
TL;DR: In this paper, the Berkeley Bevalac Argon beam at 285 MeV/nuc and 425 MeV /nuc, respectively, has been used to obtain a mean bulk etch rate VB = (1.37±0.09) μm/h.
About: This article is published in Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements.The article was published on 1984-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now.
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01 Jan 1989-International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part D. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of nuclear track detector CR-39 as a means to characterize very low current beams of accelerator protons, deuterons and alpha particles in the energy region of 6 MeV/amu is examined.
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01 Jan 1986-International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part D. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements
TL;DR: A CR-39 stack equipped with a passive temperature control shielding was exposed to primary cosmic radiation in a balloon flight from Trapani (Sicily) to Arenosillo (Spain) at an average altitude of 4 g cm -2 residual atmosphere for 20 h.
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TL;DR: Direct correlations between atmospheric Rn concentrations, alpha-particle fluences, and macro- and microdoses of absorbed radiation doses by lung cells provide for a heretofore unavailable assessment of critical doses to vital cells.
Abstract: A novel system for Rn gas exposure of mammalian cells in culture has been designed, constructed, and used to directly assess both the magnitude and the nature of chronic, low-dose Rn/Rn daughter toxicity of exposed vital lung cells isolated from normal pulmonary tissue, propagated and exposed in vitro. Direct correlations between atmospheric Rn concentrations, alpha-particle fluences, and macro- and microdoses of absorbed radiation doses by lung cells provide for a heretofore unavailable assessment of critical doses to vital cells.
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01 Jan 1986-International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part D. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements
TL;DR: In this article, the response of CR-39 and Makrofol-E to Uranium ions below 400 MeV/nuc was studied and it was shown that these detectors show a too high sensitivity in this extremely high ionizing region and that renders impossible charge discrimination.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a commercially available, optically clear, amorphous, thermoset plastic in which nuclear particle tracks can be revealed by etching in a hot NaOH solution is described.
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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic investigation into the track response of CR-39 plastic manufactured in specifically controlled temperature-time curing cycles and the development of the manufacture of thin samples of this material, 5-70 μm uniform sheets were cast between glass plates following specially calculated cycles designed to give polymerisation at a constant rate.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that this limitation can be overcome with a new nuclear track detector, CR-39(DOP), and that the charge resolution of this detector exceeds that of any other, including semiconductor diodes.
Abstract: It is pointed out that detectors of the energy loss of penetrating charged particles are widely used for particle identification. These measurements are hampered, however, by fluctuations in the amount of energy deposited within the detector. It is shown that this limitation can be overcome with a new nuclear track detector, CR-39(DOP), and that the charge resolution of this detector exceeds that of any other, including semiconductor diodes.
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TL;DR: The present situation concerning the manufacture and etching characteristics of the CR-39 nuclear track detector is surveyed in this paper, where special attention is paid to the trends in research and to the outstanding questions related to the subject.
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