TY - JOUR
T1 - A new track etch model for mica
AU - Snowden-Ifft, D. P.
AU - Chan, M. K.Y.
PY - 1995/7
Y1 - 1995/7
N2 - We propose a new model for track etching in muscovite mica valid for ions with ∼ keV/amu energies. This model is crucial for experiments which use the ∼ Gyr age of mica to search for hypothetical particles such as monopoles or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a dark matter candidate. We then confront this new model with four independent experimental observations, which cannot be explained by any model to date, and find that it succesfully reproduces all of them.
AB - We propose a new model for track etching in muscovite mica valid for ions with ∼ keV/amu energies. This model is crucial for experiments which use the ∼ Gyr age of mica to search for hypothetical particles such as monopoles or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a dark matter candidate. We then confront this new model with four independent experimental observations, which cannot be explained by any model to date, and find that it succesfully reproduces all of them.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-583X(95)00483-1
DO - 10.1016/0168-583X(95)00483-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040154133
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 101
SP - 247
EP - 251
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
IS - 3
ER -