Abstract
The scintillator-filled etch-pit method suggested by Harvey and Weeks 1 is particularly suited to situations where a rapid reading of exposed plastic detectors is required. This is the case with routine personnel neutron dosimetry, or with the measurement of environmental alpha activity such as radon emanation in dwellings, where the number of detectors to be read is large and the track density relatively low. This paper extends the already published work of Durrani et al . 2 . The linearity of response has been examined for tracks formed by alpha particles of different energies and fluences with various etching times. The results are compared to the response of Indian-ink filled pits measured with an optical photodensitometer. The efficiency of scintillation counting of recoil tracks from neutrons of different energies is also reported.
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