Polycarbonate track detectors with a flat energy response for the measurement of high energy neutrons at accelerators and airflight altitudes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 70, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 143-148

  Jozefowicz K ^a   Burgkhardt, B ^b   Vilgis, M ^b   Piesch, E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (Poland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATE; PROTON;

AIRPLANE CREW; ALTITUDE; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; THICKNESS;

EID: 0030894434     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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