Improved Thermoluminescence Properties of Natural NaCl Salt Extracted From Mediterranean Sea Water Relevant to Radiation Dosimetry

Fawzeia Mabrouk Khamis and D. E. Arafah
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Fawzeia Mabrouk Khamis: University of Tripoli, Libya.
D. E. Arafah: The University of Jordan, Jordan.

European Journal of Applied Physics, 2020, vol. 2, issue 3

Abstract: Thermoluminescence (TL) technique has been used to characterize and determine the dosimetric properties of natural sodium chloride (NaCl) salt extracted from the Seawater of the Mediterranean Sea. The TLD grade material was prepared by evaporation and annealing the powder obtained from the aqueous solution. The TL properties include the response to theb-irradiation dose and the effects resulting from annealing up to 700oC, heating rate and fading. The analysis involve using total Glow Curve Deconvolution (GCD) to separate the inherent overlapping TL-peaks and determine the TL characteristics and the trapping parameters using general order (GO)kinetics (activation energy, kinetic order, peak position of trap and the frequency factor). The GL-curves exhibit well defined TL-peaks around 140oC, 225oC and 380oC and response depending on the annealing temperature due to variations due to formation of the structural defects. A linear response was noticed over the delivered range of absorbed doses up to 4Gy. The fading results gave evidence that TL emission is due to a redistribution of trapping levels and indicate that the prominent TL-peak near 225oCis useful for TL-dosimetric applications.

Keywords: TL emission spectrum; annealing; glow curve analysis; Retrospective dosimetry. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.24018/ejphysics.2020.2.3.8

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