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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 156, 2017
Regional Conference on Nuclear Physics (RCNP 2016)
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| Article Number | 00002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 16 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715600002 | |
| Published online | 23 October 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715600002
Thermoluminescent properties of Dy doped calcium borate based glass for dose measurement subjected to photon irradiation
1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia.
2 Department of Physics, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁎ Corresponding author: hamizaahmadtajuddin@gmail.com
Published online: 23 October 2017
This study presents the thermoluminescent (TL) dosimetric properties of calcium borate glass with various dopant concentration of dysprosium (Dy). Calcium borate glass is a new potential material to be used in radiation measurement with absorption coefficient that is close to human bone. A series of glasses based on chemical equation xCaO-(100-x) B2O3 system, x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (0< x <100) % weight have been prepared by melt quenching method. The X-ray diffraction analysis of glass samples were carried out and the result showed a broad peak, which confirmed the amorphous nature of the glass. The 70B2O3-30CaO glass sample was found as the most stable among other glass samples studied. Present work focuses on 70B2O3-30CaO glass of (0.01-0.4) mol% Dy-doped in order to investigate the thermoluminescence (TL) properties, in particular, dose-response and fading. The glass samples were irradiated to dose range of 0.5-4.0 Gy subjected to 6MV photon irradiations of LINAC Primus MLC 3339. TL response of 0.3 mol% Dy-doped 70B2O3-30CaO glass was found to produce highest response, with good linear dose- response relationship.
Key words: Thermoluminescence / Borate glass / Dopant / Dysprosium / Photon irradiation.
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