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- Title
Investigation of chemical composition and moisture content for different materials on the attenuation of γ rays.
- Authors
Hilal, Moustafa A.; Attallah, Mohamed F.
- Abstract
In the present work, materials, namely mud, sand mud, ferruginous sandstone and sandstone with different densities are used to evaluate the effect of chemical composition and moisture content on the self-attenuation coefficient factor at γ-energy range from 59.5 to 1332.5 keV. The results revealed that the attenuation coefficient increases with increasing the moisture content until the material saturate with moisture. The average value of increasing linear attenuation coefficients based on increasing moisture content are 14.3%, 16.0%, 18.2%, 28.1% and 24.8% at γ-energies 59.5, 356.0, 661.7, 1173.4 and 1332.5 keV, respectively. Chemical composition of material affected on the values of attenuation, i.e. the elements with high density have high attenuation coefficient. Significant effect of self-attenuation correction factor was observed at low γ-energies up to 500 KeV. Application of the calculated correction of environmental sample with low radioactivity content has been carried out.
- Subjects
GAMMA ray attenuation; ATTENUATION coefficients; SOIL moisture; SOIL composition; MUD; SANDSTONE
- Publication
Radiochimica Acta, 2018, Vol 106, Issue 4, p337
- ISSN
0033-8230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ract-2017-2825