Study of heavy ion range in different solid state nuclear track detector materials

The range of several heavy ions as U-238, Pb-208, (197)AU, La-139, Ni-58 an d Fe-56 in sodalime glass; (197)AU and Ni-58 in muscovite mica and Lexan po lycarbonate; Bi-209 and (197)AU in CR-39 have been determined experimentall y. The calculations of range for these projectile-target combinations have been made using the Benton and Henke [10], Mukherjee and Nayak [11], Ziegle r et al. [12] and Hubert et al. [14] semiempirical formulations. Finally a comparison has been made with the experimental results. (C) 2000 Elsevier S cience B.V. All rights reserved.