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Radiation Shielding Performance of Amorphous Silicates in the System SiO2-Na2O– RO (R = Cd, Pb or Zn)

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We aimed to investigate the radiation shielding performance of ternary sodium silicate glasses containing Cd, PbO or ZnO. The mass attenuation coefficient (MAC) of the selected glasses were evaluated using Phy-X software in the energy ranging from 0.284 to 1.333 MeV. The results showed that the glasses with ZnO and CdO attain lower MAC values than the glass with PbO. All the selected glasses have maximum MAC values at 0.284 MeV, indicating good shielding performance at low energy range. All the glasses with CdO, PbO and ZnO have close MAC at higher energies, which indicates that they have comparable radiation shielding performance at high energy range. We discussed the effect of different modifiers on the linear attenuation coefficient (LAC) of the current glasses. We found that the glass with highest density (coded as G-Pb) has higher LAC than the other two samples (G-Zn and G-Cd). The results also demonstrated that when the density increases from 2.8 and 3.83 g/cm3, the LAC increases by a factor of 2.68 at 0.284 MeV and by a factor of 1.56 at 0.511 MeV. The effective atomic number (Zeff) for the three selected glasses decreased with increasing the energy in the region of 0.284 and 0.662 MeV, and then the Zeff shows a constant behavior with the energy. However, for G-Zn, the Zeff is almost constant (it is varied between 11.30 and 11.54). the LAC and Zeff results suggested that G-Pb glass has superior competence in gamma-photons shielding. We evaluated the half value layer (HVL) for the selected glasses and the HVL spam from 2.220 to 4.563, from 0.687 to 3.260 and from 1.702 to 4.082 cm for the glass with ZnO, PbO and CdO respectively.

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Sayyed, M.I. Radiation Shielding Performance of Amorphous Silicates in the System SiO2-Na2O– RO (R = Cd, Pb or Zn). Silicon 16, 203–213 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-023-02671-5

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