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Experimental assessment for the photon shielding features of silicone rubber reinforced by tellurium borate oxides

  • M. Elsafi (Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University) ;
  • Heba jamal ALasali (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University) ;
  • Aljawhara H. Almuqrin (Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University) ;
  • K.G. Mahmoud (Ural Federal University) ;
  • M.I. Sayyed (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University)
  • Received : 2022.11.16
  • Accepted : 2023.02.14
  • Published : 2023.06.25
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Abstract

In the present study, six silicone rubber doped by tellurium borate oxides were fabricated using the casting method. The densities of the fabricated silicon rubber-doped by tellurium borate oxides samples were measured using the Archimedes Method. Moreover, the linear attenuation coefficient of silicone rubber doped tellurium borate oxides samples was evaluated experimentally using the hyper pure germanium, and the recorded linear attenuation coefficient values were affirmed using the theoretical Phy-X program. The experimental measurements were performed using the narrow beam transmission method with radioactive isotopes Am-241, Cs-137, and Co-60 with energies of 59, 661, 1173, and 1332 keV. The linear attenuation coefficient values showed an enhancement by 4.73 times, 1.20 time, 1.17, time, and 1.17 time, respectively at gamma photon energies of 59, 661, 1173, and 1332 keV, when the TeO2 concentration increased in the fabricated composites from 0 to 50 wt%. The enhancement of the linear attenuation coefficient values has a positive effect on the transmission rate values where the half-value thickness and transmission rate were decreased accompanied by an increase in the RPE.

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Acknowledgement

The authors express their gratitude to the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2023R2), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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