calc_TLLxTxRatio function

Calculate the Lx/Tx ratio for a given set of TL curves -beta version-

Calculate Lx/Tx ratio for a given set of TL curves.

calc_TLLxTxRatio(
  Lx.data.signal,
  Lx.data.background = NULL,
  Tx.data.signal,
  Tx.data.background = NULL,
  signal.integral.min,
  signal.integral.max
)

Arguments

• Lx.data.signal: RLum.Data.Curve or data.frame (required ): TL data (x = temperature, y = counts) (TL signal)
• Lx.data.background: RLum.Data.Curve or data.frame (optional): TL data (x = temperature, y = counts). If no data are provided no background subtraction is performed.
• Tx.data.signal: RLum.Data.Curve or data.frame (required ): TL data (x = temperature, y = counts) (TL test signal)
• Tx.data.background: RLum.Data.Curve or data.frame (optional): TL data (x = temperature, y = counts). If no data are provided no background subtraction is performed.
• signal.integral.min: integer (required ): channel number for the lower signal integral bound (e.g. signal.integral.min = 100)
• signal.integral.max: integer (required ): channel number for the upper signal integral bound (e.g. signal.integral.max = 200)

Returns

Returns an S4 object of type RLum.Results . Slot data contains a list with the following structure:

$ LxTx.table
.. $ LnLx
.. $ LnLx.BG
.. $ TnTx
.. $ TnTx.BG
.. $ Net_LnLx
.. $ Net_LnLx.Error

Details

Uncertainty estimation

The standard errors are calculated using the following generalised equation:

where $BG_f$ is a term estimated by calculating the standard deviation of the sum of the $L_x$ background counts and the sum of the $T_x$ background counts. However, if both signals are similar the error becomes zero.

Note

This function has still BETA status! Please further note that a similar background for both curves results in a zero error and is therefore set to NA.

Function version

0.3.3

Examples

##load package example data
data(ExampleData.BINfileData, envir = environment())

##convert Risoe.BINfileData into a curve object
temp <- Risoe.BINfileData2RLum.Analysis(TL.SAR.Data, pos = 3)

Lx.data.signal <- get_RLum(temp, record.id=1)
Lx.data.background <- get_RLum(temp, record.id=2)
Tx.data.signal <- get_RLum(temp, record.id=3)
Tx.data.background <- get_RLum(temp, record.id=4)
signal.integral.min <- 210
signal.integral.max <- 230

output <- calc_TLLxTxRatio(
 Lx.data.signal,
 Lx.data.background,
 Tx.data.signal,
 Tx.data.background,
 signal.integral.min,
 signal.integral.max)
get_RLum(output)

See Also

RLum.Results , analyse_SAR.TL

Author(s)

Sebastian Kreutzer, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)

Christoph Schmidt, University of Bayreuth (Germany) , RLum Developer Team

How to cite

Kreutzer, S., Schmidt, C., 2025. calc_TLLxTxRatio(): Calculate the Lx/Tx ratio for a given set of TL curves -beta version-. Function version 0.3.3. In: Kreutzer, S., Burow, C., Dietze, M., Fuchs, M.C., Schmidt, C., Fischer, M., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., Philippe, A., Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., Mittelstrass, D., Gray, H.J., Galharret, J., Colombo, M., Steinbuch, L., Boer, A.d., 2025. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.0.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/