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Gamma and neutron attenuation of SiO2–B2O3–BaO–Li2O glasses doped with CeO2

  • Khalid Alsafi , Dalal Abdullah Aloraini , M. A. Saif and Kh. S. Shaaban ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: April 5, 2024
Radiochimica Acta
From the journal Radiochimica Acta Volume 112 Issue 9

Abstract

The demonstrations impact of CeO2 on the radiation shielding properties of SiO2–B2O3–BaO–Li2O glasses has been investigated. The observed trend in density ρ ranged from 3.127 to 4.022 g/cm³, whereas the molar volume V m of these glasses decreased. The half-value layers (HVL), and mean free paths (MFP) of CL glasses reinforce the notion that the presence of Ce ions, particularly in CL2, enhances the ability of glasses’ to attenuate gamma rays. The effective electron density (Neff) increases with the addition of CeO2, suggesting a correlation between the enhancement of radiation shielding properties and the amount of CeO2 incorporated into the glasses.

Keywords: CeO2; lithium borosilicate; optical; gamma and neutron shielding
Corresponding author: Kh. S. Shaaban, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, P.O. 71542, Assiut, Egypt, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2024R57), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

  1. Research ethics: The authors declare that there are no ethical questions involved in this work.

  2. Author contributions: Kh. S. Shaaban, Conceptualization, methodology, writing- original draft preparation, writing- reviewing and editing, Dalal Abdullah Aloraini, Conceptualization, methodology, writing- original draft preparation, writing- reviewing and editing, Khalid Alsafi, Methodology, Writing- Original draft preparation, writing-reviewing and editing and M. A. Saif, Data curation, methodology, software, writing-reviewing and editing.

  3. Competing interests: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: No data was used for the research described in the article.

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Received: 2024-01-02
Accepted: 2024-03-20
Published Online: 2024-04-05
Published in Print: 2024-09-25

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