Dose response on the 110 °C thermoluminescence peak of un-heated, synthetic Merck quartz

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• 作者：Şule Kaya Keleş ; ^{sule.kaya@ankara.edu.tr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Niyazi Meriç ; George S. Polymeris
• 关键词：Merck quartz ; Supra-linearity ; Activation energy ; Un-heated
• 刊名：Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：15 July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：493
• 期：Complete
• 页码：17-24
• 全文大小：702 K

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Studies on 110 °C TL peak have been carried out using natural quartz from different origins and synthetic quartz produced by different suppliers. The interest in quartz is due to its usage in dating and retrospective dosimetry as a main material; both synthetic and natural types of quartz yield the 110 °C TL peak in their glow curve. In most studies to understand the physical mechanism behind the TL system, synthetic quartz samples are used and there are many investigations about dose response, in both low and high radiation dose region. In these studies generally synthetic quartz samples produced by Sawyer Research Products are used and the studies showed that both heated and un-heated synthetic quartz samples have intense supra-linear responses. Supra-linearity was enhanced by applying a pre-irradiation while several models have been developed towards an explanation to these supra-linearity effects. In this study commercially available synthetic Merck quartz was used. Different combinations of optical filters were used to obtain dose response curves upto 266 Gy and the effect of pre-dose to these dose response curves was studied. Un-pre-dosed Merck quartz samples dose supra-linearity index is below 1 independently on the optical filters; so Merck quartz showed linear or sub-linear dose response.