ON THE CORRELATION OF NUCLEAR TRACK EFFECTS WITH BASIC TRACK PARAMETERS

The formation of nuclear tracks in polymers is acompagnied by radioche mical, structural, electronic and optical changes that show up macrosc opically above specific threshold values. The correlation of these eff ects with both the average transferred electronic energy density rho(e ) and with rho(e)S(e) (S-e = electronic stopping power) is examined in this work. Scaling with rho(e)S(e) yields in general better results: The consequence for the choice of the corresponding track model is dis cussed.