A Study on Photon Interaction Cross Sections and Mass Attenuation Coefficients Dependents Chemical Composition of Wood Materials at the Energy Range of 1Kev to 100Mev

Published Date
Procedia Engineering
2015, Vol.127:665–669, doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2015.11.362
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER (ICCHMT) - 2015
Open Access, Creative Commons license

Author 

• Saritha Boddupelli ^a,,
 
• Nageshwara rao A.S. ^b

• aDepartment of Physic, Kakatiya Universit,y, Warangal, Telangana, India
• bDepartment of Physic, Kakatiya Universit,y, Warangal, Telangana, India

Available online 17 December 2015.

Abstract

This paper reports on evaluation of the partial photon interaction cross sections and total mass attenuation coefficients of different wood materials including soft and hard wood materials. These values are compared with the corresponding values of shielding materials (Pb compounds and Hg). The values of interaction cross sections are computed using X-com computer data base software over the energy levels 1 KeV to 100MeV. It is observed that μ total of composite materials (wood materials) decreases sharply in the low energy region which remains constant in the medium energy region, and increases in high energy region. Attenuation coefficients of different partial interaction processes like Photo electric absorption, Coherent Scattering, Pair production are calculated and analyzed. The results suggest that the interaction processes are Z dependent.

Keywords

Wood materials

Chemical Composition ;. Partial attenuation coefficients

Total attenuation coefficient

X-com

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