The TL fluence response to heavy charged particles using the track interaction model and track structure information

The extended track interaction model, ETIM, has recently being proposed to explain the TLD- 100 fluence response of peak 5 to heavy ions. This model includes the track structure information through the use of the luminescent centre occupation probability obtained from radial dose distributions produced by the ions as they travel through the dosemeter. In this work an implementation of ETIM using Monte Carlo techniques is presented. The simulation was applied to calculate the response of peak 5 of both sensitised and normal TLD-100 crystals to 2.6 and 6.8 MeV ⁴He ions. The simulation shows that the TL-fluence response has as strong dependence on ion energy, in disagreement with experimental observations. In spite of this, good agreement between the simulated TL-fluence response calculated for the 6.8 MeV ⁴He radial distributions and the experimental data for the two energies was achieved.