Research at the College of Aeronautics Cranfield

Radiation dosimetry is a very important issue in space research and in experiments that try to simulate chemical processes that may occur in cometary nucleus, interstellar grains, and other extraterrestrial environments, due to their irradiation by cosmic rays. The temperature effect is an important factor that has not been considered in many of these experiments. In this work, this effect was studied in TLD dosimeters exposed to gamma rays. The irradiations were done from 77 to 298 K in a gamma cell unit with a dose rate of 1.0 Gy/s. Results obtained for CaSO4:Dy show that there is a considerable effect in the evaluation of the dose as function of the irradiation temperature.