Physics
Scientific paper
May 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985nimpa.236..400t&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 236, Issue 2, p. 400-409.
Physics
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Scientific paper
A new multiple scanning method is developed and applied to detect cosmic heavy nuclei. The plastic track detectors CR-39 exposed to cosmic heavy nuclei are over-etched in 8.0N NaOH for 94 h at 80°C. We found that the etched cones can easily be scanned on the plastic plates without using an optical microscope. The trajectories of heavy nuclei can be reconstructed with the naked eyes by superposing four or more over-etched plates. The charge detection threshold is obtained by this method, and appears to be 10. The charge resolution is estimated to be 1.0 charge units for iron nuclei. By adopting this method, the scanning time is much shortened and CR-39 plastic chamber size can easily be scaled up. The method is very useful for detecting particles with low flux intensity, like for searching magnetic monopoles or for measuring the high energy spectra of cosmic heavy nuclei.
Fumuro Fumihito
Hoshino Kaoru
Sato Yoshihiro
Sugimoto Hisahiko
Tasaka Shigeki
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