Gamma radiation shielding and structural features for barium strontium boro-tellurite glass modified with various concentrations of molybdenum oxide

Abstract In the present study, series of 20BaO-10SrO-30TeO2-(40-x)B2O3-xMoO3 where (x= 0, 5, 10, & 15 mol%) was synthesized via standard melt quench technique. The XRD results affirm the amorphous nature for all glasses, while the FTIR confirms the functional group's existence for TeO2 and B2O3. Various parameters were calculated to define the physical features of the glass samples, like molar volume, density, packing density, Poisson's ratio, oxygen packing density, and oxygen molar volume. The shielding features like mass attenuation coefficient, mean free path, equivalent atomic number, half-value layer, and tenth value layer, specific gamma-ray, gamma dose rate, the specific absorbed fraction of the energy, gamma transmission factor, removal cross-section for fas neutron ( ∑ R ) were computed and determined theoretically by using Phy-X. The addition of MoO3 instead of B2O3 in glass samples improves all the structural and shielding features, indicating that glass materials can be used as a good radiation shielding absorber.