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Gamma ray shielding characteristics and exposure buildup factor for some natural rocks using MCNP-5 code  

Mahmoud, K.A. (Ural Federal University)
Sayyed, M.I. (Physics Department, University of Tabuk)
Tashlykov, O.L. (Ural Federal University)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.51, no.7, 2019 , pp. 1835-1841 More about this Journal
Abstract
The mass attenuation coefficient ${\mu}_m$ for eight rock samples having different chemical composition was simulated using the MCNP 5 code in energy range($0.002MeV{\leq}E{\leq}10MeV$). Moreover, the ${\mu}_m$ for the studied rock samples was computed theoretically using XCOM database. The comparison between simulated and computed data for all selected rock samples showed a good agreement with differences varied between 0.01 and 8%. The highest ${\mu}_m$ was found for basalt rocks M2 and M1 and the lowest one is reported for limestone rocks Dike. The simulated values of the ${\mu}_m$ then were used to calculate other important shielding parameters such as the mean free path, effective electron density and effective atomic number. The exposure buildup factor EBF was also computed for the selected rocks with the contribution of G-P fitting parameters and the highest EBF attended by the basalt sample Sill and varied between 1.022 and 744 in the energy range between ($0.015MeV{\leq}E{\leq}15MeV$) but the lowest EBF achieved by basalt sample M2 and varied between 1.017 and 491 in the same energy range.
Keywords
Gamma ray; Shielding properties; Natural rocks; MCNP; Buildup factor;
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