Gamma ray interaction studies of organic nonlinear optical materials in the energy range 122 keV–1330 keV

Abstract

The mass attenuation coefficients (μm) for organic nonlinear optical materials measured at 122–1330 keV photon energies were investigated on the basis of mixture rule and compared with obtained values of WinXCOM program. It is observed that there is a good agreement between theoretical and experimental values of the samples. All samples were irradiated with six radioactive sources such as 57Co, 133Ba, 22Na, 137Cs, 54Mn and 60Co using transmission arrangement. Effective atomic and electron numbers or electron densities (Zeff and Neff), molar extinction coefficient (ε), mass energy absorption coefficient (μen/ρ) and effective atomic energy absorption cross section (σa,en) were determined experimentally and theoretically using the obtained μm values for investigated samples and graphs have been plotted. The graph shows that the variation of all samples decreases with increasing photon energy. Keywords: Mass attenuation coefficients (μm), Effective atomic numbers (Zeff), Effective electron densities (Neff)