The principal aim of these theoretical and experimental studies is the deve
lopment and realisation of thermoluminescent (CaSO4: Dy) probes for the mea
surement of gamma radioactivity in soil with the possibility of also evalua
ting the alpha (especially radon) and gamma contribution to the global resp
onse of these thermoluminescent detectors. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd, A
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