THERMAL-NEUTRON DOSIMETRY USING ELECTROCHEMICALLY ETCHED CR-39 DETECTOR

Authors
ILIC R KRISTOF ES DIJANOSIC R SKVARC J DOBNIKAR R
Citation
R. Ilic et al., THERMAL-NEUTRON DOSIMETRY USING ELECTROCHEMICALLY ETCHED CR-39 DETECTOR, Radiation measurements, 25(1-4), 1995, pp. 453-456
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
Radiation measurements → ACNP
ISSN journal
13504487
Volume
25
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
453 - 456
Database
ISI
SICI code
1350-4487(1995)25:1-4<453:TDUEEC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A thermal neutron dosimeter based on a combination of a BN-1 (Kodak Pa the, France) and CR-39 (TASL, England) neutron converter, a charged pa rticle detector and the use of an electrochemical device and the TRACO S automatic image analysis system was developed. The response of the d osimeter was found to be (7.3 +/- 0.5) x 10(-3) tracks/n and is compar able to that obtained by optimal chemical etching conditions (7.7 x 10 (-3) tracks/n). A thermal neutron fluence from 10(4) to 10(8) n/cm(2) can be measured reliably.