Rhyolite as a Naturally Sustainable Thermoluminescence Material for Dose Assessment Applications

Elsayed Salama, Dalal A. Aloraini, Sara A. El-Khateeb and Mohamed Moustafa
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Elsayed Salama: Basic Science Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt (BUE), El-Shorouk City 11837, Egypt
Dalal A. Aloraini: Physics Department, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Sara A. El-Khateeb: Nuclear Medicine Technology Department, Inaya Medical Colleges, Riyadh 11352, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Moustafa: Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, The American University in Cairo (AUC), New Cairo 11835, Egypt

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Thermoluminescence characteristics of natural rhyolite have been studied. Dose response at a wide dose range of 0.5–2000 Gy has been determined. Minimum detectable dose and thermal fading rate are evaluated. Glow curve deconvolution is conducted after determining the best read-out conditions. The repeated initial rise (RIR) method is used to detect the overlapping peaks, and a glow curve deconvolution procedure is used to extract the thermoluminescence parameters of rhyolite. According to the findings, rhyolite glow curves show five interfering peaks corresponding to five electron trap levels at 142, 176, 221, 298, and 355 °C, respectively, at a heating rate of 3 °C/s. The obtained kinetic order for the deconvoluted peaks showed mixed-order kinetic. The reported results might be useful to introduce rhyolite as a natural sustainable material for radiation dosimetry applications.

Keywords: rhyolite; sustainable natural material; thermoluminescence; kinetic parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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