COMPUTER ORIENTED NUMERICAL-ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR TRACK DATA

Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTDs) tare used in wide ranging applied fields. The application of any SSNTD is largely dependent on the determination and standardization of all the quantifiable track pa rameters. The measurement of various track parameters are associated w ith significant levels of systematic and random errors which need to b e minimized. Several computer programs (TRALIN, TRAPOL1, TRAPOL2, TRAC AL1, TRACAL2 and TRADIS) have been developed in high level language to analyse the measured nuclear track data in order to generate best fit to the experimental track data as linear and polynomial functions and to test the goodness of fitting. Application of these programs have b een demonstrated and the mathematical formulations and logic used to d evelop these computer codes have been presented. (C) 1998 Elsevier Sci ence Ltd. All rights reserved.