Depth dose and angular dose distribution experiments with high energy electron-photon radiation

India's first synchrotron radiation source, Indus-1, is commissioned at the Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT), Indore. Radiation environment of this facility is quite different in comparison to that of nuclear or irradiator facilities and proton or heavy ion accelerator facilities. The primary particle accelerated being the electron, the radiation environment mainly comprises of Bremsstrahlung photons followed by photo-neutrons, whereas electron contamination too exists within the containment area. Due to the complex nature of the radiation viz. high energy, broad energy spectrum, pulsed, mixed field, sharp angular distribution etc. quantification of radiation dose becomes a difficult task. In this paper, experiments on depth dose and angular dose distribution done with 450 MeV electron-photon radiation are described