SEMI-EMPIRICAL SIMULATION OF THERMOLUMINESCENT RESPONSE UNDER DIFFERENT FILTER GEOMETRIES / "Simulação semi-empírica da resposta termoluminescente sob diferentes geometrias de filtro"

AUTOR(ES)

Gabriel Issa Jabra Shammas

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Many thermoluminescent materials has been developed and used for photon personal dosimetry but no one has all desired characteristics alone. These characteristics include robustness, high sensitivity, energy photon independence, large range of photon energy detection, good reproductibility, small fading and simple glow curve with peaks above 150oC. Calcium Sulfate Dysprosium doped (CaSO4:Dy) phosphor Thermoluminescent Dosimeter (TLD) has been used by many laboratories, mainly in Brazil and India. Another interesting phosphor is Calcium Fluoride (CaF2). These phosphor advantages begin to be more required and its disadvantages have became more apparent, in a global market more and more competitive. These phosphors are used in environmental and area monitoring, once they present more sensibility than other phosphors, like LiF:Mg. Theirs mainly disadvantage is a strong energetic dependence response, which must be corrected for theirs application in the field, where photon radiation is unknown a priori. An interesting way do make this correction in orthogonal incidence of the radiation on the phosphor is to interject a plane leaked filter between the beam and the phosphor. In order to reduce the energetic dependence on any incidence angle, reducing the field dose measurement uncertainty too, this work presents a simulation study on spherical filter geometries. It was simulated photon irradiations with Gamma rays of 60Co and x-rays of 33; 48 and 118 keV, on many incidence angles from zero to ninety degrees. These semi-empirical computational simulations using finite differences in three dimensions were done in spherical coordinates. The results pointed out the best filter thicknesses and widths, in order to optimize the correction on energetic dependence.

ASSUNTO(S)

dosimetria dosimetry dependência energética energetic dependence thermoluminescent termoluminescência

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