title: Relative thermoluminescence efficiency of TLD-600 and TLD-700 dosemeters irradiated with 59.8 MeV per nucleon krypton-86 ions.
abstract: A batch of LiF thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLDs), each containing five TLD-600 and TLD-700 thermoluminescence dosemeter chips, was irradiated with 59.85 MeV per nucleon 86Kr20+ ions from the K1200 superconducting cyclotron at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). Michigan State University, USA. The average linear energy transfer of the accelerated 86Kr ions and the resulting dose imparted to the TLD chips were calculated to be 3343 keV.microm(-1) per ion and 1.68 Gy respectively. A similar batch of TLD chips was irradiated with 1.3 MeV gamma rays from a 60Co source to 1.0 Gy. The TLD chips were evaluated at a ramp heating rate of 10 degrees C.s(-1) to 400 degrees C using a hot-finger type TLD reader. The thermoluminescence efficiency of the TLD-600 and TLD-700 dosemeters, relative to 60Co gamma rays was calculated to be 0.0025 and 0.0027 respectively
authors.affiliation: mukherjee@ieee.org
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ronningen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cross
mesh_terms: D005459:Fluorides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D005720:Gamma Rays; D007727:Krypton Radioisotopes; D018499:Linear Energy Transfer; D018020:Lithium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D011854:Radiochemistry; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D007727:Krypton Radioisotopes; D018020:Lithium Compounds; C027651:lithium fluoride; D005459:Fluorides