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Improving dose rate determinations for rock surface luminescence dating: measuring potassium content within gneissic rocks with μ-XRF
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- 20 January 2020
Successful luminescence dating of potassium feldspar grains is dependent on reliable estimates of the dosing from ionising radiation from cosmic sources, surrounding sediments, and from the grains... -
IRSL rock surface dating of dry-stone structures in the Trentino Alps with ALPES
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- 20 January 2020
Summer at 2300 m a.s.l. in the Italian Alps is nice but short (Fig. 1). Luckily, it’s not too short for some archaeological excavations among rock glaciers and malghas (overnight huts for... -
International workshop in Rock Surface Dating in the Cologne Luminescence Laboratory (CLL)
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- 07 November 2018
On the 18-19th of October, the Cologne Luminescence Laboratory hosted an international workshop in Rock Surface Dating. Together with researchers from the luminescence laboratories in Aberystwyth,... -
ShinyDRAC and the R package ‘TLdating’ are online
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- 08 September 2016
After two years of work, a stable version of the new R package ‘TLdating’ in now available on CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TLdating/index.html) and github. The ‘TLdating’ package is a... -
UK Luminescence and ESR Meeting 2016
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- 07 September 2016
This year, the UK Luminescence and ESR Meeting took place in Liverpool at the beginning of July. As always, the Cologne Luminescence Lab was well represented. Melanie Bartz and Janina Bösken, two... -
GSGS Summer School on Dates and Rates of Change in the Quaternary
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- 06 September 2016
During the penultimate week of August, the GSGS (the Graduate School of Geoscience) organized a Summer School on ‘Dates and Rates of Change in the Quaternary’ in Blankenheim near Cologne. The... -
18th international conference on Solid State Dosimetry (SSD18) in Munich
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- 23 August 2016
In the beginning of July PhD candidate Franz Hartung (F2 project) visited the 18th international conference on Solid State Dosimetry (SSD18; see www.ssd18.org) in Munich. At this conference... -
Measurements in the blocks of SUERC in East Kilbride (Scotland)
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- 22 August 2016
In June 2016 Nicole Klasen, Anja Zander and Franz Hartung (F2 project) visited David Sanderson at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) in East Kilbride, Scotland, UK. They... -
Visiting Radiation Physics Experts at the TU Dresden
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- 11 April 2016
From early February to late March, Franz Hartung, PhD student in Project F2 of the CRC 806, had a research stay at the TU Dresden. In the lovely atmosphere of the baroque city he benefited from the... -
Luminescence in Archaeology International Symposium 2015
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- 01 December 2015
At the beginning of September 2015, the Luminescence in Archaeology International Symposium (LAIS 2015) took place in Paris hosted by the Centre de Recherche et de restauration des musées de France. Two... -
Recording of luminescence signals in the field
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- 25 February 2015
In October 2014, Stephanie Merkel and Nicole Klasen of the F2 project used a portable luminescence reader (SUERC POSL of the Scottish Universities and Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride)... -
International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating conference (LED 2014)
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- 15 October 2014
During the second week of July, the Cologne Luminescence Laboratory (CLL) head sent personnel to Montreal to participate in the 14th International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating... -
BeO-dosimeters successfully estimate the heterogeneity of the dose rate distribution
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- 10 June 2014
As shown in previous investigations within the CRC 806, the BeOmax dosimetry system is able to measure in situ dose rates with low uncertainties in sediment contexts. These small dosimeters are used in... -
Investigations on the potential of BeO dosimeters for in-situ dose rate estimation
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- 07 January 2013
Beryllium oxide is predominantly used as personal dosimeter for medical purposes. In the context of a B.Sc. thesis, we investigated the potential of a BeO-based OSL dosimeter for in-situ γ-dose rate... -
Moved into new laboratories
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- 01 February 2012
After moving from the “Rundbau” into the newly built laboratories in the basement of the “Südbau”, the luminescence laboratory finally restarted operations. -
Uncovering radiation patterns in silex
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- 27 May 2011
Siliceous materials used for tool making can differ greatly in appearance. When dating burnt lithics using Thermoluminescence (TL), the distribution of radionuclides (Uranium, Thorium, Potassium) in...