The radiation shielding features for some silicide, boride and oxide types ceramics

Abstract

The gamma ray photon interaction parameters for different samples including calcium silicide, magnesium silicide, magnesium boride, calcium hexaboride, aluminum oxide, and titanium dioxide were investigated. For this aim, the mass attenuation coefficients for these samples were measured by the transmission geometry at 14 energies values (i.e., E∈[81,1333] keV) and the results were compared with those acquired from the WinXCOM software. From the present samples, calcium silicide and magnesium boride have the highest and lowest effective atomic numbers, respectively. Besides, the effective atomic number values almost remain constant for magnesium silicide. The half value layer results showed that as the energy increases, the probability of photon interaction with the ceramic sample decreases, thus more gamma photons can penetrate the ceramics. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd