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A New Method to Determine the Maximum Value of the Track Length of Alpha Particle in CR-39 Detector
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
- 1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
- 2 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
- 3 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zakho, Duhok, Iraq
Materials Sciences and Applications·Volume 06 (2015)·Pages 145–151·Published 23 January 2015·DOI10.4236/msa.2015.62018
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to determine the maximum values of the track length (L<SUB>max</SUB>) of alpha particles in Nuclear Track Detector (type CR-39) using a new method by taking the relation between the etching time and the diameter square of alpha particle with different energies at constant bulk etch rate VB (1.45 μm/hr) by using TRACK_TEST program from Brun et al. function and Yu et al. function. Using the new equation, the maximum values of the track lengths of alpha particles measured in CR-39 detector have been found to be in a good agreement with the values measured by using Brun et al. function and Yu et al. function in TRACK_TEST program.
KeywordsMaximum Value of Track LengthCR-39Range of Alpha ParticleNuclear Track Detector (NTD)
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