The instrumentation required for a thermoluminescence lab consists of:

• A vacuum oven to heat the sample
  
• A precise and steady thermoregulation unit to control the heating ramp
  
• A photo-detector (made up by signal acquisition stage, a sensitive photomultiplier and a high-voltage power supply for the photomultiplier) capable of acquiring the thermoluminescence signal from the sample at different temperatures
  
• A radioactivity measurement unit (alpha activity) to measure radioactivity in the terrain where the sample was found by using scintillators
  
• A device to keep an inert gas inside the vacuum oven
  
• A dryer and an ultrasonic bath to prepare the samples
  
• Personal computer and software to acquire data
  
• Radioactivity sources for reference measures.

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