RANGES OF ENERGETIC 40Ar IONS IN ZnP-GLASS

Abstract

Experimental ranges are determined for the passage of ⁴⁰Ar ions in ZnP-Glass for energies upto ~292 MeV using a versatile nuclear-track technique proposed by Saxena et al. ZnP-Glass which is a solid state nuclear track detector (SSNTD) used in the present study is a metaphosphate glass. The experimental data are compared with corresponding theoretical values obtained from SRIM program and from stopping power equations of Mukherji et. al. (DEDXT-program).