Neutron dose assessment in laser-generated ultra-short pulsed fields.

ELI Beamlines is one of the pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ELI ERIC), the European project aiming at building the next generation of high power lasers for fundamental research and industrial applications. Several high-power lasers are hosted by the ELI Beamlines facility. Even at a power lower than the nominal one, when interacting with a target, the laser can generate mixed ionizing radiation fields of unique nature.

COMPARISON OF OSL AND TL DOSEMETERS WITH DATA COLLECTED AT THE MT25 CYCLIC ELECTRON ACCELERATOR.

The Microtron MT25 is a cyclic electron accelerator with a Kapitza resonator, maximum beam energy of 25 MeV, standard repetition frequency of 423 Hz, pulse length of 3.5 μs and mean current of 30 μA. Studies at conventional particle accelerators allow to understand the response of dosemeters in known and controllable radiation fields.

Characterization of OSL dosimeters used at the ELI-beamlines laser-driven accelerator facility.

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Beamlines laser-driven accelerator facility is set to operate the most intense non-military laser system in the world, with ultra-high power up to 10 PW, concentrated plasma intensities of up to 10W cm, and ultra-short laser pulses of the order of few femtoseconds. A robust and redundant radiation monitoring system is in place to minimise risks to personnel and general public. Beryllium oxide optically stimulated luminescence (BeO-OSL) detectors are used to monitor radiation levels in the experimental building and surrounding grounds.

RADON CONCENTRATION TIME SERIES MODELING AND APPLICATION DISCUSSION.

In the year 2010 a continual radon measurement was established at Mladeč Caves in the Czech Republic using a continual radon monitor RADIM3A. In order to model radon time series in the years 2010-15, the Box-Jenkins Methodology, often used in econometrics, was applied. Because of the behavior of radon concentrations (RCs), a seasonal integrated, autoregressive moving averages model with exogenous variables (SARIMAX) has been chosen to model the measured time series.

Urinary N3 adenine DNA adducts in humans occupationally exposed to styrene.

Urine samples from humans occupationally exposed to styrene, with mandelic acid levels ranging from 400 to 1145 mg/g creatinine and from 68 to 400mg/g creatinine for high and low exposure group, respectively, were analysed for N3 adenine DNA adducts, namely, 3-(2-hydroxy-1-phenylethyl)adenine (N3 alpha A) and 3-(2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl)adenine (N3 beta A). A sensitive LC-ESI-MSMS method was developed with the limit of quantification of 1 pg/mL for both analytes. Peaks corresponding to N3 alpha A and/or N3 beta A were found in seven of nine end-of-shift samples of the high exposure group and in six of 19 end-of-shift samples of the low exposure group.