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| Research progress on etching simulation of the nuclear track formed in solid state detectors |
| LI Zhiling, CHEN Bo, ZHUO Weihai, ZHANG Weiyuan |
| Institute of Radiation Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032 China |
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Abstract Solid-state nuclear track detectors have been widely used in the field of ionizing radiation measurements. It is expected that important parameters such as the type, energy and incidence angle of the incident particles could be achieved throughout in-depth studies on the shape information (such as length of major/minor axis, area, depth distribution, etc.) of the track formed on the solid nuclear track detector,and it is known that the parameters are critical for accurate dose assessment. Through the literature research, this paper summarizes the formation principle of the track on the solid detector and the research progress in the simulation of track etching process, and makes some prospects for the future research work.
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Received: 22 March 2019
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