Abstract

The effects of quenching on the value of the scintillation (prompt plus delayed component) induced by a heavy ionizing particle of energy E and specific energy loss dE/dx are analysed measuring the specific luminescence dS/dx of polystyrene films dopped with different concentrations of DPA. In a previous work¹ we deduced the following expression for the delayed specific luminescence Quantities (1 – ϕ₁), ϕ₂ and (ϕ₁ - ϕ₂) are the fractions of energy transferred by the incident particle to the track, blobs and spurs respectively. These ones represent the three distinct regions considered in the track model proposed before².

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