Abstract
Kinetic analysis of the thermoluminescent (TL) glow curve of aquamarine, a cyan variety of beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6), is reported. Samples were irradiated at room temperature using a90Sr/90Y β source at a rate of 0.10 Gy-1. Measurements made at 1 °C/s after irradiation from 1 to 100 Gy show a high intensity peak at 75 °C followed by three secondary peaks at 115, 189 and 302 °C respectively. The dose response of the high intensity peak (called the main peak) is linear within the first 20 Gy, but tends towards sub-linearity as the dose is close to 100 Gy. The signal decays with the time delay between irradiation and reading. It decays about 14% of its initial value, 600 s after irradiation. Reproducibility analysis shows that the material reproduces its response under identical experimental conditions with an uncertainty of 0.8% after 10 Gy beta dose irradiation. The kinetic analysis of the TL glow curve was carried out using the curve fitting method. The results show that the main peak follows first order kinetics, its activation energy is of the order of 1 eV and the frequency factor is between 1012 and 1014 s−1, while some secondary peaks follow general order kinetics.
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