Photon and neutron shielding characteristics of samarium doped lead alumino borate glasses containing barium, lithium and zinc oxides determined at medical diagnostic energies

Almatari M., Agar O., Altunsoy E. E., Kilicoglu Ö., Sayyed M. I., Tekin H. O.

RESULTS IN PHYSICS, cilt.12, ss.2123-2128, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 12
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.rinp.2019.01.094
  • Dergi Adı: RESULTS IN PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2123-2128
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: XCOM, Glasses, MCNPX, Attenuation, Gamma photon, Neutron, MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS, EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBERS, ELECTRON-DENSITIES, XCOM PROGRAM, RADIATION, ALARA, CODE, PBO
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In the present work, we studied the radiation shielding parameters such as mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic number, half value layer, mean free path, macroscopic effective removal cross-sections and neutron transmission function for samarium doped lead alumino borate glasses containing barium, lithium and zinc oxides at medical diagnostic energies (between 20 and 150 keV) using MCNPX code. The results showed that the photon attenuation depends on the type of modifier used (i.e. ZnO, BaO or Li2O) and also, upon the energy of the photon. The higher mass attenuation coefficients were found for the glass containing BaO. The results also revealed that the glass containing Li2O has the maximum effective atomic number between 20 and 40 keV. In addition, some important neutron shielding parameters such as macroscopic effective removal cross-sections (Sigma(R)) and neutron transmission function (N/N-0) have been calculated for investigated glass samples.