title: Neutron dosimetry with TL albedo dosemeters at high energy accelerators.
abstract: The GSF-Personal Monitoring Service uses the TLD albedo dosemeter as standard neutron personal dosemeter. Due to its low sensitivity for fast neutrons however, it is generally not recommended for workplaces at high-energy accelerators. Test measurements with the albedo dosemeter were performed at the accelerator laboratories of GSI in Darmstadt and DESY in Hamburg to reconsider this hypothesis. It revealed that the albedo dosemeter can also be used as personal dosemeter at these workplaces, because at all measurement locations a significant part of neutrons with lower energies could be found, which were produced by scattering at walls or the ground.
authors.affiliation: GSF-Auswertungsstelle für Strahlendosimeter, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, D-85761 Neuherberg. haninger@gsf.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haninger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fehrenbacher
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D038622:Internationality; D009502:Neutrons; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation*