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Radiation shielding performance of Co2O3–TeO2–Li2O–ZrO2 glass–ceramics

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This study presents the photon shielding factors, viz, the linear attenuation (LAC) and mass (MAC) attenuation coefficients, half-value layer (HVL), transmission factor TF, and effective atomic number \({Z}_{\mathrm{eff}}\) of xCo2O3-(100 − x)[80 TeO2–19Li2O–1ZrO2] glass–ceramic system (for 0 ≤ x ≤ 20 mol%) synthesized by the melt-quench method. The parameters were estimated using FLUKA simulations and compared with WinXCOM calculations for low photon energies in the range 241–2510 keV. Generally, LAC values smoothly decline with photon energy with highest (lowest) value at minimum (maximum) energy. The corresponding highest (lowest) values of LAC was 0.961 (0.205), 0.955(0.206), 0.911 (0.205), and 0.853 (0.205) cm−1 for Co2O3 concentration of 0–20 mol%. The HVL values of CoTeLiZr1 and CoTeLiZr4 samples equaled 0.72 cm and 0.81 cm, correspondingly, at photon energy 284 keV and both increased to 3.38 cm at 2506 keV. At minimum (maximum) photon energy, Zeff value was obtained as 27.94 (19.27), 27.73 (19.16), 26.08 (18.35), and 24.06 (17.59) for CoTeLiZr1, CoTeLiZr2, CoTeLiZr3, and CoTeLiZr4, respectively. Analysis of all estimated parameters shows that the gamma photon shielding efficiency improves according to the trend CoTeLiZr1 > CoTeLiZr2 > CoTeLiZr3 > CoTeLiZr4. The partial replacement of TeO2 with CoO3 leads to the decline in the photon shielding efficacy and mass density of the glass–ceramics. The CoTeLiZr1–4 exhibit substantially enhanced shielding efficiency with respect to ordinary concrete, barite concrete, and RS-253-G18 commercial shield. The present materials thus have great potential as gamma photon absorbers in nuclear facilities where low energy photons are applied.

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The authors received financial support from Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project (Grant No. PNURSP2022R48), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This work was also supported by King Khalid University through a grant (KKU/RCAMS/22) under the Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS) at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.

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  1. Department of Physics, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

    M. S. Al-Buriahi

  2. Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, 11671, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Jamila S. Alzahrani

  3. Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha, 61413, Saudi Arabia

    H. H. Somaily

  4. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha, Saudi Arabia

    H. H. Somaily

  5. Physics Department, College of Science, Jouf University, P.O. Box 2014, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

    Z. A. Alrowaili

  6. Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

    I. O. Olarinoye

  7. Department of Radiography, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, P.O. Box (20), Ma’an, Jordan

    H. H. Saleh

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Al-Buriahi, M.S., Alzahrani, J.S., Somaily, H.H. et al. Radiation shielding performance of Co2O3–TeO2–Li2O–ZrO2 glass–ceramics. J Aust Ceram Soc 58, 1199–1207 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41779-022-00774-7

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