The Clermont radiometric reference rocks: a convenient tool for dosimetric purposes

Authors

  • D. Miallier Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS, IN2P3, UMR 6533, Aubière
  • G. Guérin Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux, UMR 5060 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l'Archéologie (CRP2A), Pessac
  • N. Mercier Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux, UMR 5060 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l'Archéologie (CRP2A), Pessac
  • T. Pilleyre Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS, IN2P3, UMR 6533, Aubière
  • S. Sanzelle Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS, IN2P3, UMR 6533, Aubière

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26034/la.atl.2009.428

Abstract

Boreholes drilled in 8 different rocks situated in the vicinity of the Clermont TL laboratory have been used for testing and calibrating methods devoted to measurement of natural radioactivity. The present paper gives updated data for the nuclide contents and internal dose rates for those reference media. Two examples of application are presented. The first example shows dose rate calibration of a scintillator gamma probe using a threshold method. The second example shows a routine technique for TL dosimetry, based on the rocks for dose rate reference.

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2009-11-15

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Miallier, D., Guérin, G., Mercier, N., Pilleyre, T., & Sanzelle, S. (2009). The Clermont radiometric reference rocks: a convenient tool for dosimetric purposes. Ancient TL, 27(2), 37–43. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.atl.2009.428

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2009)

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Copyright (c) 2009 D. Miallier, G. Guérin, N. Mercier, T. Pilleyre, S. Sanzelle

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