Comparison of some lead and non-lead based glass systems, standard shielding concretes and commercial window glasses in terms of shielding parameters in the energy region of 1keV–100GeV: A comparative study

New gadolinium based glasses for gamma-rays shielding materials

“…In the composite materials, the interactions of photon with these materials are related to the obtained Z eff values and photon energies. Similar results have been published for shielding glass materials (Manohara et al, 2010;Kirdsiri et al, 2010;Singh et al, 2002Singh et al, , 2004Singh et al, , 2005Singh et al, , 2008Singh et al, , 2014Kurudirek et al, 2010;Chanthima et al, 2012;Yasaka et al, 2014;Kirdsiri et al, 2009). It might be concluded that the Z eff depends on the photon energy.…”

“…A comparative study of lead borate and bismuth lead borate glass for gamma rays shielding materials by Singh et al (2004), showed the effective shielding properties of bismuth for replacing lead in borate glass. Kurudirek et al (2010), reported a comparative study on the effective atomic numbers of several glasses containing Pb to their counterpart lead free systems. It was observed that at some high energy regions, the lead free glass systems showed higher values of effective atomic numbers than lead based glasses even with lower effective atomic numbers.…”

Comparative Study of Radiation Shielding Parameters for Bismuth Borate Glasses

“…So it is desired to have materials which are transparent to visible light and have better shielding properties in terms of lesser volume requirement. Now a day heavy metal glasses are proving to be the promising candidates as an alternate to the conventional shielding material like concrete [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] . The commonly used heavy metal in glasses is lead.…”

Investigation of Comet Wild-2 in terms of effective atomic numbers

“…They are also used extensively in nuclear and radiation physics, radiation dosimetry, environmental and industrial applications etc. (Manohara et al, 2008(Manohara et al, , 2009Akkurt, 2009;Kurudirek et al, 2010Kurudirek et al, , 2010Cevik et al, 2010; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.08.018 0273-1177/Ó 2015 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.…”