The comparative study of the radiation shielding of PbO-Li 2 O-B 2 O 3 glass system by using FLUKA to XCOM and experimental data

Abstract

We had investigated the efficacy of FLUKA Monte Carlo code for the gamma radiation shielding parameter calculation of (60-x) PbO-xLi 2 O-40 B 2 O 3 glasses (where 0 ≤ x ≤ 25 mol%) at photon energies, 356, 662, 1173, and 1332 keV. Then we compared the mass attenuation coefficients, mean free path, effective atomic number, and electron density to standard XCOM data and experimental results from recently published work. We found that simulated and calculated results agreed well with those published results, for which the maximum relative deviation is less than 1.5 % for all the glass samples.