Calculation of the half life for the thermoluminescent signal of Beryllium oxide.

Half-life is one of the fundamental parameters to characterize the thermoluminescent (TL) response in ionizing radiation dosimetry. In general, there are two types of important half-lives to model the phenomenon of thermoluminescence (TL). The first type of half-life is the time required for the concentration of trapped charge carriers in a single trap to decrease to half its initial value; this type of half-life is generally denoted as τ.