Luminescence Dating Laboratory
The Laboratory offers state-of-the art facilities for OSL dating of sediments and other materials, as well as TL dating of pottery.
The laboratory consists
of a dark room preparation laboratory for handling luminescence
samples, luminescence measurement laboratory and gamma spectrometry
laboratory for measurements of nuclide content of soil needed for
determining the environmental dose rate.
The equipment available:
Automated reader of OSL and TL signals Daybreak
2200 equiped with a Sr-90 source for beta irradiation and an array of
blue LED's for OSL stimulation. The reader allows the measurement of
luminescence signals needed to determine the absorbed radiatin dose.The
supplied software allows rapid analysis of the data.
Automated reader of OSL and TL signals Daybreak 1150 equiped with a Sr-90 source for beta irradiation and a halogen lamp for OSL stimulation. The reader is of older type and is used mainly for test measurements.
The picture below shows the view of the bench where the readers sit.
Canberra HPGe coaxial gamma spectrometer (on the left) for the measurements of the
natural concentration of radionuclides for estimating the annual dose. On the right a
HPGe well-type gamma spectrometer can be seen. It is mainly used for
the determination of the radionuclide concentration in small samples.
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