International Journal of
Physical Sciences

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Phys. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-1950
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPS
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2568

Short Communication

Determination of effective atomic number and electron density of chitin by gamma-ray attenuation

I. Akkurt      
Suleyman Demirel University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakultesi Fizik Bol. Isparta, Turkey.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 23 August 2011
  •  Published: 30 September 2011

Abstract

The previous termeffective atomicnext term numbers (Zeff) and effective electron density (Ne) of chitin have been calculated using the mass attenuation coefficients (m/r) obtained via XCOM (COMpilation of X-ray Cross Sections) in the photon energy range  between 1 keV and 1 GeV. The results were compared with the measured values at the photon energy of 662, 1173 and 1332 keV. Both measured and calculated results were in good agreement.

 

Key words: Effective atomic number, chitin, effective electron number, COMpilation of X-ray Cross Sections (XCOM).

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