Energy and chemical composition dependence of mass attenuation coefficients of building materials

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1199-1205

  Singh, Charanjeet ^a   Singh, Tejbir ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Mudahar, Gurmel S ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPOSITION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PHOTOELECTRIC ABSORPTION;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 1642586365     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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