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Published on: January 26, 2014
Thermally enhanced TLD output: Impacts on the response curve
H A Soliman1, Mohamed A Hassan1, Enas Esmat1
1Ionizing Radiation Metrology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards (NIS), Ministry of Scientific Research, Haram, P.O. Box: 136, 12211 Giza, Egypt.
Abstract:
Pre-irradiation background reading of thermoluminescent LiF dosimeters results in severe changes in the glow curve qualitatively and quantitatively. Current work focuses on the possible changes in the response of TLD-700 dosimeters after this effect. This work examines changes in the level of the glow curve as a whole and on the level of individual peaks as well. It was found that the response of TLD-700 dosimeters has increased by factors ranging from 20% to 44% in terms of area under the glow curve. Changes in individual peaks were examined by performing deconvolution for the glow curves. Results confirmed that the response due to such effect is not uniform over the studied temperature range and each individual peak has its own behavior either in terms of peak area or peak intensity. It was observed that the third peak (P3) leads these changes as the change in its area after being exposed to this thermally enhanced thermoluminescence output (TETO) effect was in the range from 4.1 to 3.0 folds compared to the corresponding values obtained without reading the background prior to irradiation. Peak intensity possesses similar behavior where peaks P2 and P4 are following to P3 in their response, the rest of peaks are either neutral or have negative response to TETO. Response curves of each deconvoluted peak in terms of peak area and maximum intensity are analyzed over the range (0.05-30) Gy and discussed in details.
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