Front Cover; Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors; Copyright Page; Note from the Editors; Table of Contents; List of Participants; Session 1: Fundamental Mechanisms; CHAPTER 1. CAN DOSIMETRIC QUANTITIES DESCRIBE CHARGED PARTICLE TRACKS IN MATTER?; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; CLASSIFICATION OF CHARGED PARTICLE TRACK STRUCTURES; DESCRIPTION OF PARTICLE TRACKS BY DOSIMETRIC CONCEPTS; PROBLEMS WITH DOSIMETRIC CONCEPTS IN RADIATION RESEARCH; OUTLINE OF POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO CLASSIFICATION BY ACTIVATION BASED CONCEPTS; REFERENCES.

Chapter 2. i.r., u.v. and e.s.r. studies on plastic track detectors irradiated by heavy ionsabstract; keywords; introduction; results; conclusion; references; chapter 3. electron and alpha particle damage in biotite mica: implications for track formation mechanisms; abstract; keywords; introduction; experimental procedures; results and discussion; conclusions; references; chapter 4. annealing effects in solid state track recorders; abstract; keywords; introduction; reaction rate description of track annealing; elementary inferences of annealing theory; enigmas in sstr cosmic ray observations.

Acknowledgementreferences; chapter 5. new concepts for fossil track studies in lunar silicates; abstract; keywords; introduction; extended defects and point defects in the latent tracks of ultraheavy nuclei; evidence for a continuous cores of damaged material along the latent tracks of superheavy nuclei (z ^75); fossil tracks of solar energetic particles in lunar labradorites; conclusion; references; chapter 6. latent and etched track formation in polymeric detectors-a thermodynamic approach; abstract; introduction; latent track formation; etched track formation; conclusions.

Chapter 7. electret studies of cn-85abstract; keywords; introduction; electret formation; results and discussion; references; chapter 8. electrolytical studies of submicroscopic nuclear tracks in plastic detectors; abstract; keywords; introduction; experimental setup; analysis; discussion; acknowledgement; references; chapter 9. small angle neutron scattering from oriented latent nuclear tracks; abstract; introduction; experiment; interpretation; references.

CHAPTER 10. INFLUENCE OF THE ATOMIC NUMBER AND ENERGY OF BOMBARDING IONS ON THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF DAMAGE PRODUCED IN CELLULOSE TRIACETATEABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS (Moliton, 1980); RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. ION INDUCED TRACK FORMATION MECHANISM IN APATITE; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; FISSION TRACK FORMATION MECHANISM IN APATITE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 12. THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF THE PHOTOOXIDATIVE ENHANCEMENT OF TRACK ETCHING IN THE POLYCARBONATE OF BISPHENOL-A; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS.