Current Science

P. A. Mosier-Boss ¹, L. P. Forsley ², A. S. Roussetski ³, A. G. Lipson ⁴, F. Tanzella ⁵, E. I. Saunin ⁴, M. McKubre ⁵, B. Earle ⁵, D. Zhou ⁶

Affiliations
1 9112 Fermi Ave. San Diego, CA, US
2 JWK Corp., 5101B Backlick Road, Annandale, VA 22003, US
3 P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, RU
4 A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, RU
5 SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
6 National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10019, US

Abstract

Columbia Resin-39 (CR-39) detectors used in Pd/D co-deposition experiments were examined using an optical microscope, scanned using an automated scanner, and underwent both sequential etching analysis as well as LET spectrum analysis. These analyses identified and quantified the energetic particles responsible for the tracks observed in the CR-39 detectors and made it possible to estimate the branching ratios of the primary and secondary reactions.

Keywords

Branching Ratio, Protons, Fission, Long-Range Alphas, Neutrons.

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