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Optical, thermal and gamma ray attenuation characteristics of tungsten oxide modified: B2O3-SrCO3-TeO2-ZnO glass series

  • Hammam Abdurabu Thabit (Department of Physics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Abd Khamim Ismail (Department of Physics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • M.I. Sayyed (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University) ;
  • S. Hashim (Department of Physics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • I. Abdullahi (Department of Physics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Mohamed Elsafi (Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University) ;
  • K. Keshavamurthy (Department of Physics, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering) ;
  • G. Jagannath (Department of Physics, School of Engineering, Presidency University)
  • Received : 2023.06.30
  • Accepted : 2023.09.29
  • Published : 2024.01.25
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Abstract

The glass series modified by tungsten oxide was created using the compounds (75-x) B2O3- 10SrCO3- 8TeO2- 7ZnO - xWO3, where x = 0, 1, 5, 10, 22, 27, 34, and 40% mole percentage. A UV-visible spectrophotometer and thermogravimetric-differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) methods were employed to characterize the specimen's optical and phase transition attributes, respectively. The mass-attenuation coefficient (AC) of all created glasses from BSTZW0 to BSTZ7 was estimated using Geant4 code from 0.05 to 3 MeV and compared to the XCOM software results, with a relative difference of less than 2% between the two results. The increase of WO3 percentage lead to an increase in the Linear-AC at each studied energy, and this is mainly due to the fact that the higher the percentage of WO3 in the glass increases its density which causes an increase in the Linear-AC, so an energy of 0.06 MeV, as an example, the values of the Linear-AC was 4.009, 4.509, 5.442, 6812, 8.564, 9.856, 10.999 and 11.628 cm-1 form BSTZW0 too BSTZW7, respectively. The Half-VL (value layer), Mean-FP (free path), Tenth-VL, and Radiation attenuation performance (RAP) were also calculated for the current BSTZW-glass samples and revealed that BSTZW7 had the best gamma ray attenuation performance at all discussed energies when compared to other studied glass samples.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by UTM-Professional Development Research University (POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Ref No: PY/2022/03183) and FRGS grant Ref No: PY/2019/01269). (vot num:R. J130000.7113.06E13, Ref No: PY/2019/01269).

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