background: several landmine detection methods, based on nuclear techniques, have been suggested during the recent years. neutron energy moderation, neutron-induced gamma emission, neutron and gamma attenuation, and fast neutron backscattering are nuclear-based methods used for landmine detection. the aim of this study is to use backscattered neutron for landmine detection. materials and method...

The delta-ray theory of track structure, applied earlier to such 1-or-more hit detection systems as the inactivation of dry enzymes and viruses, the NaI(Tl) scintillation counter, and nuclear emulsion, is extended to the silver activated phosphate glass dosimeter, the LiF thermoluminescent dosimeter, the creation of free radicals in solid biological substances, solid and liquid organic scintill...

The present Note is intended for track-reconstruction, detector-alignment and detector-evaluation groups. Often regarded as a simple problem, track reconstruction can soon become tangled with prohibitive CPU load and unexpectedly large errors. Detector alignment for instance requires that alignment parameters satisfy proper track reconstruction in all events. Tunning however the alignment param...

Track parallelisation of GEANT-based detector simulations, worked out for a parallel computer, is described. Its implementation in a T9000 based TN310 computer (16 processors) is explained in detail. With the help of the shower tracking example Gexam1 we show that the speedup obtained is satisfactory for high energies and enough initial particles. Load balancing policies are discussed.

1 Sponsored by the Bulgarian Science Fund, Grant No.I-801/98. Abstract. Hough Transform is a convenient tool for features extraction from images. In this paper an implementation of Hough Transform is onsidered for automatic track initiation in the surveillance radar space. The need of track initiation arises when there are many moving objects in the sensor surveillance volume and when it is not...

Energetic ions and ultrashort X-rays were generated by an intense ultrashort laser interacting with a copper target. Fast ions up to 3 MeV were observed with CR-39 nuclear track detector sheets when 7 TW laser was used. Cu ∼ Cu ions with the energy from 50 keV to 220 keV were detected with a Thomson parabola detector in the case of the laser power of 2.5 TW. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction was ...

We present the results from the CAKE (Cosmic Abundance below Knee Energy) balloon experiment which uses nuclear track detectors. The final experiment goal is the determination of the charge spectrum of CR nuclei with Z > 30 in the primary cosmic radiation. The detector, which has a geometric acceptance of ∼ 1.7 msr, was exposed in a trans-mediterranean stratospheric balloon flight. Calibrations...