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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2004 110(1-4):319-323; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch116
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 110 Nos. 1-4 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Fast-neutron OSL sensitivity of thallium-doped ammonium salts

N. J. M. Le Masson1, A. J. J. Bos1,*, Z. Czapla2, J. C. Brouwer1 and C. W. E. van Eijk1

1 Delft University of Technology, IRI, Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands
2 University of Wroclaw, Inst Expt Phys, M Borna 9, PL-50204 Wroclaw, Poland

* Corresponding author. Bos{at}iri.tudelft.nl

The main problem in selecting suitable thermoluminescent (TL) materials for fast-neutron dosimetry is finding a material that is both tissue-equivalent and not damaged upon heating. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) avoids the need to heat the materials and allows the use of materials with a high content of hydrogen (responsible for 90% of the absorbed dose of fast-neutrons). The choice of studying the ammonium salts for their OSL properties was based on the calculation of their neutron kerma factor. A constant ratio of an ammonium salt's kerma coefficients to the tissue's kerma coefficients (in the fast-neutron range) is a prerequisite for a similar energy response to neutrons, i.e. tissue equivalency. The salts studied are NH4Br and (NH4)2SiF6 both doped with Tl+. This paper describes the OSL properties of Tl+-doped NH4Br and (NH4)2SiF6 after exposure to 14.5 MeV neutrons to explore their potential for developing new, tissue-equivalent OSL materials suitable for fast-neutron dosimetry. The relative neutron sensitivity, k, defined as the ratio of the sensitivity of the material to neutrons to its sensitivity to gamma rays, has been determined for 14.5 MeV neutrons and varies between k = 0.15 and k = 0.5. The latter value is a factor 2.5 higher than that found for known TL materials (k ≤ 0.2). A drawback of these materials is the fast fading of the OSL signal.


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