<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> To use effectively any radiation detector in high-temperature plasma experiments, it must have a lot of benefits and fulfill a number of requirements. The most important are: a high energy resolution, linearity over a wide range of recorded particle energy, high detection efficiency for these particles, a long lifetime and resistance to harsh conditions existing in plasma experiments and so on. Solid-state nuclear track detectors have been used in our laboratory in plasma experiments for many years, but recently we have made an attempt to use these detectors in spectroscopic measurements performed on some plasma facilities. This paper presents a method that we used to elaborate etched track diameters to evaluate the incident projectile energy magnitude. The method is based on the data obtained from a semiautomatic track scanning system that selects tracks according to two parameters, track diameter and its mean gray level.</p></abstract>

To use effectively any radiation detector in high-temperature plasma experiments, it must have a lot of benefits and fulfill a number of requirements. The most important are: a high energy resolution, linearity over a wide range of recorded particle energy, high detection efficiency for these particles, a long lifetime and resistance to harsh conditions existing in plasma experiments and so on. Solid-state nuclear track detectors have been used in our laboratory in plasma experiments for many years, but recently we have made an attempt to use these detectors in spectroscopic measurements performed on some plasma facilities. This paper presents a method that we used to elaborate etched track diameters to evaluate the incident projectile energy magnitude. The method is based on the data obtained from a semiautomatic track scanning system that selects tracks according to two parameters, track diameter and its mean gray level.

Charged projectile spectrometry using solid-state nuclear track detector of the PM-355 type

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Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery Str., 01-497 Warsaw, Poland and National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), 7 Andrzeja Soltana Str., 05-400 Otwock/Swierk, Poland

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To use effectively any radiation detector in high-temperature plasma experiments, it must have a lot of benefits and fulfill a number of requirements. The most...

Charged projectile spectrometry using solid-state nuclear track detector of the PM-355 type

Data publikacji: 25 wrz 2015

Zakres stron: 591 - 596

Otrzymano: 21 paź 2014

Przyjęty: 20 maj 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0100

Słowa kluczowe
solid-state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) · PM-355 · energy resolution of proton and deuteron · calibration diagrams · track mean gray level

© by Aneta Malinowska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Charged projectile spectrometry using solid-state nuclear track detector of the PM-355 type

Data publikacji: 25 wrz 2015

Zakres stron: 591 - 596

Otrzymano: 21 paź 2014

Przyjęty: 20 maj 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0100

Słowa kluczowesolid-state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) · PM-355 · energy resolution of proton and deuteron · calibration diagrams · track mean gray level

© by Aneta Malinowska

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
solid-state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) · PM-355 · energy resolution of proton and deuteron · calibration diagrams · track mean gray level