Calibration of Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors for rare event searches
Abstract The calibration of the CR39 ® and Makrofol ® Nuclear Track Detectors of the MoEDAL experiment at the CERN-LHC was performed by exposing stacks of detector foils to heavy ion beams with energies ranging from 340 MeV/nucleon to 150 GeV/nucleon. After chemical etching, the base areas and lengths of etch-pit cones were measured using automatic and manual optical microscopes. The response of the detectors as measured by the ratio of the track-etching rate over the bulk-etching rate, was determined over a range extending from their threshold at Z/ β ∼ 7 and ∼ 50 for CR39 and Makrofol, respectively, up to Z/ β ∼ 92.
Authors
- Z. Sahnoun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-2003)
- G. Lévi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-6359)
- G. Sirri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-2853)
- A. Upreti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0112-2854)
- J. L. Pinfold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-4196)
- I. Ostrovskiy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-0225)
- L. Patrizii (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9712-977X)
- R. Soluk
- Michael Staelens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-0043)
- A. Maulik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8518-2741)
- M. Kalliokoski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4963-0121)
- V. Togo
Institutions
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Alabama (US)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)
- Parc Científic de la Universitat de València (ES)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/03/p03014
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87