The radiation shielding parameters of a standard silica glass system

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Kaky, M. I. Sayyed This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3348261/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 09 Nov, 2023 Read the published version in Silicon → Version 1 posted 7 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract We investigated the radiation shielding parameters for K 2 O-SiO 2 glasses using Phy-X software. The results show that the glasses with a higher K 2 O concentration and lower SiO 2 contents have higher mass attenuation coefficient (MAC) values at all energies. At 0.03 MeV, the MAC values of the tested glasses are varied between 0.873 and 1.907 cm 2 /g, while at 0.10 MeV they are in the range of 0.168–0.195 cm 2 /g. The linear attenuation coeffieicnet (LAC) shows a direct relation with the density, where the LAC for the glass with a density of 2.211 g/cm 3 is 0.704 cm − 1 at 0.05 MeV and increases to1.351 cm − 1 for the glass with a density of 2.491 g/cm 3 . We reported the effective atomic number (Z eff ) for the tested glasses and we found the glass with a composition of 40K 2 O-60SiO 2 has the greatest Z eff at all energies. The Z eff values at 0.03 MeV are in order of 11.94–16.43, while at 4 MeV they are varied between 10.06 and 12.31. according to the half value layer results, 40K 2 O-60SiO 2 glass has the lowest HVL, which means this glass has the best radiation shielding properties among the tested glasses. silica glass half value layer radiation shielding effective atomic number Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 09 Nov, 2023 Read the published version in Silicon → Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Major revision 18 Oct, 2023 Reviews received at journal 08 Oct, 2023 Reviewers agreed at journal 23 Sep, 2023 Reviewers invited by journal 22 Sep, 2023 Submission checks completed at journal 22 Sep, 2023 Editor assigned by journal 22 Sep, 2023 First submitted to journal 12 Sep, 2023 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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