Molten Ba(OH)2·8H2O as an etchant for CR-39 detector

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-210

  Tahiri, I A ^a   Matiullah, ^a   Subhani, M S ^b  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Barium hydroxide; Chemical etching; Etching efficiency; Induction time; Molten etchant

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ETCHING; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL ETCHING;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0037679234     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(03)00030-1     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Abdel-Naby A.A., El-Akkad F.A. Effect of track etch rate on geometric track characteristics for polymeric track detectors. Radiat. Meas. 33:2001;145-150.
2. Awad E.M., El-Samman H.M. Activation energy of etching for CR-39 as a function of linear energy transfer of the incident particles. Radiat. Meas. 31:1999;109-114.
3. Bashir, A., Matiullah, Yang, X., Gul, M., 1993. Effect of presence of gamma rays with neutron fields on the performance of a CR-39 based cubical neutron dosimeter. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 22, 647-650.
4. Bernaola O.A., Mazzei R., Martin G.S., Grasso J.C. A simple method for the evaluation of induction time in SSNTD. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 15(1-4):1988;141-144.
5. Beth M., Enge W., Sermund G. Some new aspects on etching of CR-39 plastic detector. Nucl. Tracks. 12:1986;91-95.
6. Bhatia R.K., Virk H.S. Etching studies of radiation damage in CR-39. Indian J. Pure Appl. Phys. 26:1988;428-430.
7. Brandt R. Some recent applied and fundamental work with SSNTD. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 21:1993;341-347.
8. Cartwright B.G., Shirk E.K., Price P.B. A nuclear track recording polymer of unique sensitivity and charge resolution. Nucl. Instrum. Methods. 153:1978;457-460.
9. Charvat J., Spurny F. Optimization of etching characteristics for cellulose nitrate and CR-39 track detectors. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 14:1988;447-449.
10. David R.L. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 79th Edition:1999;CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
11. Durrani S.A., Bull R.K. Solid State Nuclear Track Detection: Principles, Methods and Applications. 1987;Pergamon Press, Oxford.
12. Dwivedi K.K. On the critical etching parameters of track detectors. Radiat. Meas. 27(3):1997;453-456.
13. Fleischer R.L., Price P.B., Walker R.M. Nuclear Tracks in Solids: Principles and Applications. 1975;University of California Press, Berkeley.
14. Fowler, P.H., Amin, S., Clapham, V.M., Henshaw, D.L., 1979. Track recording properties of the plastic CR-39 for non-relativistic ions in the charge range 6
15. Green P.F., Ramli A.G., Al-Najjar S.A.R., Abu-Jarad F., Durrani S.A. A study of bulk etch rates and track etch rates in CR-39. Nucl. Instrum. Methods. 203:1982;551-559.
16. Henke R., Ogura K., Benton E.V. Standard method for measurements of bulk etch rate in CR-39. Nucl. Tracks. 12:1986;307-310.
17. Hildebrand D., Benton E.V. The chemical etching behavior of cellulose nitrate. Nucl. Tracks. 4:1980;77-90.
18. Jeffrey I.S., Joseph S.F., William L.H. Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. 1999;Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
19. Khan, H.A., Manzoor, S., Matiullah, 1991. Interaction of 86 MeV/u - O and 107 MeV/u - C ions with different targets. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 19, 639-640.
20. Khan E.U., Husaini S.N., Malik F., Sajid M., Karim S., Qureshi I.E. A quick method for maintaining the molarity of NaOH solution during continuous etching of CR-39. Radiat. Meas. 35:2002;41-45.
21. Martin S.G., Mazzei R., Bernnaola O.A., Bourdin J.C. Solvent effect in nuclear track development. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 13(1):1987;71-75.
22. Matiullah, 2000. Radiation Physics. Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
23. Matiullah, Ahmed, A., Khan, G.A., Manzoor, S., Khan, H.A., 1988a. Some Investigations on the response of CR-39 detector to protons, deuterons and alpha particles. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 15, 137-140.
24. Matiullah, Durrani, S.A., Khan, G.A., 1988b. A practical fast-neutron dosimeter based electrochemically etched CR-39 nuclear track detector with angle-independent response. Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 34, 499-504.
25. Matiullah, Durrani, S.A., Kudo, K., 1990. A review of the use of CR-39 track detector in personnel neutron dosimetry and spectrometry. Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 51, 76-84.
26. Matiullah, Kudo, K., Majeed, A., Fujii, M., 1991. Radon - a measure of living standard. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 19(1-4), 371-374.
27. B of CR-39 neutron detector. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 40(5A), 3474-3475.
28. Qureshi, A.A., Khan, H.A., Tafail, M., Matiullah, 1991. Radon signals for geological explorations. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 19, 383-384.
29. Randhawa G.S., Kumar S., Virk H.S. Response of different plastic track detectors to. α-particles Radiat. Meas. 27(3):1997;523-527.
30. Rashid, T., Matiullah, Gul, M., Yang, X., Bashir, A., 1993. Reassessment of the CR-39 based cubical neutron dosimeter. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 22, 695-698.
31. Singh J., Singh S., Virk H.S. Etching studies of CR-39 plastic track recorder. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 15:1988;187-190.
32. Sharma S.L., Pal T., Rao V.V., Enge W. Effect of gamma irradiation on bulk etch rate of CR-39. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 18:1991;385-389.
33. Somogyi G., Hunyadi I. Etching properties of the CR-39 polymeric nuclear track detector. Francois H.et al. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on SSNTD, Lyon. 1979;443-452 Pergamon Press, Oxford.