1 Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109, Berlin, Germany
2 Institute of Advanced Studies, CSIRO and ANU, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Abstract:
The formation of nuclear tracks in polymers in acompagnied by radiochemical, structural, electronic and optical changes that show up macroscopically above specific threshold values. The correlation of these effects with both the average transferred electronic energy density e and with eSe (Se = electronic stopping power) is examined in this work. Scaling with eSe yields in general better results: The consequence for the choice of the corresponding track model is discussed.