Formation of charged particle tracks in glass-fiber microstructures

Glass-fiber disks intended for the image transfer in electrooptical transducers can be used as targets in microchannel Cerenkov track detectors. Calculated values of the coefficient of Cerenkov radiation trapping in the glass-fiber discs well agree with experiment, which confirms the hypothesis concerning a Cerenkov-type mechanism of the charged particle track formation in non-scintillating microfiber structures.