Swift heavy ion irradiation produces damage in polymers in the form of latent tracks. Latent tracks can be enlarged by etching it in a suitable etchant and thus nuclear track etch membrane can be formed for gas permeation / purification in particular for hydrogen where the molecular size is very small. By applying suitable and controlled etching conditions well defined tracks can be formed for ...

It was with great emotion that I accepted to be a guest speaker to this memorial section dedicated to my old-time friend, Prof. Radomir Ilić. In addition to being one of the most outstanding scientists in the field of nuclear tracks, Prof. Radomir Ilić has been always highly acclaimed by the scientific community for his enthusiasm, his warm friendship, and his great vitality. Through his succes...

One of the architectural concerns in the present design of the Muon Trigger Track Finder (MTTF) is the large number of inputs to the Track Assembler (TA). In the TA block, input track segment pairs from many Extrapolation Units (EU) are associated into tracks. The relative contribution of these inputs to the assembled tracks is studied with simulated track patterns for low and high pt muons ove...

The analysis of the grey tracks produced in Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) off nuclei provides important information on the space-time development of hadronization in nuclear medium. This method is complementary to the measurement of nuclear attenuation of leading inclusive hadrons. While the latter is focused on the hadronization dynamics for the quite rare process of leading hadrons producti...

Numerous tracks of charged nuclear particles, emitted during electrolysis, were discovered by Oriani and Fisher (1). More recently, emission of such particles after electrolysis was discovered by Oriani (2). This presentation is based on ten experiments conducted to replicate the reported results. Seven clusters of tracks were found in two out of six electrolysis experiments. Three clusters wer...

Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTD) are commonly used for long term measurements of radon, thoron and progeny concentrations. In the present study, we compared the optical counting method and the spark counting technique for counting the alpha tracks on LR 115 track detector films. The paper discusses the various parameters that are innate in the process. More than 300 films were counte...

A computer program named TRIAC written in MATLAB has been developed for track recognition and track parameters measurements from images of the Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors CR39. The program using image analysis tools counts the number of tracks for dosimetry proposes and classifies the tracks according to their radii for the spectrometry of alpha-particles. Comparison of manual scanning ...