title: Thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence properties of natural barytes.
abstract: Heavy, baryte-loaded, concrete is commonly used as radiation shielding material around high energy particle accelerators. Concrete samples received from a shielding block located at CERN cite contain many crystalline inclusions which were identified as barytes by X-ray diffraction analysis and separated by their color, classified as white, orange and green. Basic properties of thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals of these barytes samples such as thermal and optical stability, repeatability and mainly the linearity of both their luminescence responses were investigated as a function of beta dose. These results are also discussed regarding detailed investigation on the correlation between TL and OSL signals and their implications for retrospective dosimetry.
authors.affiliation: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. gkitis@auth.gr
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kitis
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Kiyak
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Polymeris