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Luminescence

Data Analysis and Modeling Using R

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  • Features over 70 integrated R code examples, extensively annotated for reader comprehension
  • Includes several chapters devoted to Monte Carlo methods
  • Discusses how readers can employ and modify the included R examples for practical situations, extending guidance beyond the text, itself

Part of the book series: Use R! (USE R)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Luminescence Signals from Delocalized Transitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Analysis and Modeling of TL Data

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 21-69
    3. Analysis of Experimental OSL Data

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 71-97
    4. Dose Response of Dosimetric Materials

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 99-126
    5. Time-Resolved OSL Experiments

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 127-145
  3. Luminescence Signals from Localized Transitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. Localized Transitions and Quantum Tunneling

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 149-184
    3. Localized Transitions: The LT and SLT Model

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 185-209
  4. Monte Carlo Simulations of Luminescence Signals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
    2. Monte Carlo Simulations of Localized Transitions

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 247-259
    3. Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 261-273
  5. Comprehensive Luminescence Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
    2. Comprehensive Luminescence Models for Quartz

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 277-307
    3. Comprehensive Models for Feldspars

      • Vasilis Pagonis
      Pages 309-333
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 335-350

About this book

​This book covers applications of R to the general discipline of radiation dosimetry and to the specific areas of luminescence dosimetry, luminescence dating, and radiation protection dosimetry. It features more than 90 detailed worked examples of R code fully integrated into the text, with extensive annotations. The book shows how researchers can use available R packages to analyze their experimental data, and how to extract the various parameters describing mathematically the luminescence signals.


In each chapter, the theory behind the subject is summarized, and references are given from the literature, so that researchers can look up the details of the theory and the relevant experiments. Several chapters are dedicated to Monte Carlo methods, which are used to simulate the luminescence processes during the irradiation, heating, and optical stimulation of solids, for a wide variety of materials. This book will be useful to those who use the tools of luminescence dosimetry, including physicists, geologists, archaeologists, and for all researchers who use radiation in their research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Physics Department, McDaniel College, Westminster, USA

    Vasilis Pagonis

About the author

Vasilis Pagonis is professor emeritus of Physics at McDaniel College, USA. He is an internationally recognized expert in luminescence dosimetry, and he has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the coauthor of four books: Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach, With Examples in Python and Mathematica (Kulp and Pagonis, CRC Press 2020), Recent Advances in Physics and Applications of TL and OSL (eds. Chen and Pagonis, World Scientific 2019), Thermally and Optically Stimulated Luminescence: A Simulations Approach (Chen and Pagonis, Wiley 2012), and Practical and Numerical Exercises in Thermoluminescence (Pagonis, Kitis, and Furetta, Springer 2006).


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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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