Attenuation of electromagnetic radiation in Nuclear Track Detectors

TL;DR

This study systematically investigates how various electromagnetic radiations are attenuated in different Nuclear Track Detectors using multiple spectroscopic and detection methods, providing key parameters for their optical properties.

Contribution

It provides new measurements of attenuation parameters for three types of NTDs across a broad spectrum, using diverse experimental techniques.

Findings

Determined optical depth and attenuation coefficients for PET, Makrofol, and CR-39 NTDs.

Compared attenuation behavior across gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, visible, and IR spectra.

Presented detailed experimental methodologies and results.

Abstract

A systematic study of the attenuation of electromagnetic radiation in Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) is carried out. The attenuation of gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, visible, and infrared radiation in NTDs are investigated using NaI(Tl) detector, Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, and FTIR spectrophotometer respectively. The values of some important parameters (e.g., optical depth, attenuation coefficient, etc.) of three commercially available NTDs (PET, Makrofol r and CR-39 r ), at the relevant region of the electromagnetic spectrum, is determined. The details of the experimental techniques and the results are also presented in this paper.