Fission Fragment Tracks in Metal Films
- 1 May 1962
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 33 (5) , 1726-1730
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1728816
Abstract
Fission fragment tracks observed in electron microscope studies of platinum and palladium films are interpreted in terms of thermal processes involving melting and vaporization. The results require that the energy lost by the fragment be converted into thermal energy over the entire volume of the track in a time short enough that little of it is conducted away. A model in which free electrons disperse the energy over this volume is used to account for the width and structures of the tracks.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Electron Microscope Observations of Fission Fragment Tracks in Thin Films of UO2Journal of Applied Physics, 1960