Solid-state track detectors in laser plasma investigations

• Published in: High temperature Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 428 - 446
• Main Authors: Pikuz, S. A., Skobelev, I. Yu, Faenov, A. Ya, Lavrinenko, Ya. S., Belyaev, V. S., Kliushnikov, V. Yi, Matafonov, A. P., Rusetskiy, A. S., Ryazantsev, S. N., Bakhmutova, A. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01-05-2016
• Subjects: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields; Classical and Continuum Physics; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Laser Matter Interaction; Materials Science; Physical Chemistry; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Reviews
• ISSN: 0018-151X; 1608-3156
• DOI: 10.1134/S0018151X16030160

The possibility of application of the solid-state track detectors, developed earlier for experimental nuclear physics, in laser plasmas investigations is considered. A review of the main physical and metrological properties of the solid-state track detectors is given. Special attention to the detector on the basis of the CR- 39 polymer plastic is made. The experimental layouts of the CR-39 applications for investigation of both the properties of the fast heavy particles generated in the femtosecond laser plasma and the properties of the various materials by irradiation by the flows of the fast particles emitted by the laser plasmas are investigated.