Translocation of tungsten(vi) oxide/gadolinium(iii) fluoride in tellurite glasses towards improvement of gamma-ray attenuation features in high-density glass shields

Abstract This study investigates the effect of substituting tungsten( vi ) oxide/gadolinium( iii fluoride in tellurite glasses whose densities varies from 5.0879 to 5.3246 g/cm 3 on gamma-ray absorption properties. A range fundamental parameters, including attenuation coefficients, half-value layer thicknesses, effective atom and electron numbers, conductivity, exposure, energy buildup factors, were studied for five different glass samples with varying substitution ratios. The ratio oxide gadolinium( varied between 0 20 mol%, as well TeO 2 composition was maintained 90 80 mol%. sample 80–20 mol% /WO , which attained maximum density value WO addition, showed highest gamma-absorption capabilities based obtained findings 0.015–15 MeV. In consideration mechanical physical properties glasses, it can be concluded that incorporation is a crucial monotonic process may utilized further improve shields.