Acknowledgement
The authors gratefully acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University and the authors also wish to thank Dr. Nidal Dwaikat who designed the gamma-ray irradiation system and carried out the experimental part in the Physics department at KFUPM.
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