The Total and K Shell Photoelectric Cross Sections for 661.6 keV Gamma Rays

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (9) ◽  
pp. 846-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramakrishna Gowda ◽  
B. Sanjeevaiah

The total and K shell photoelectric cross sections at 145, 279.1, and 411.8 keV have been measured for different converter foils using the well-type plastic scintillation spectrometer. The results have been published elsewhere. Using the same method the total and K shell photoelectric cross sections in copper, zirconium, silver, tin, tantalum, gold, and lead at 661.6 keV have been measured and the results are compared with the available experimentally measured and theoretically predicted values. The results are found to be in good agreement with the theoretical values of Schmickley and Pratt and also of Scofield.

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (18) ◽  
pp. 1592-1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ranganathaiah ◽  
Ramakrishna Gowda ◽  
B. Sanjeevaiah

Photoelectric cross sections for 323 keV gamma rays in Cu, Zr, Ag, Sn, Ta, Au, and Pb have been measured using a well-type plastic scintillation spectrometer. A comparison of these cross sections is made with the theoretical cross sections and the available measured values.


2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (08) ◽  
pp. 1450044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amr Radi ◽  
Esraa El-Khateeb

New technique is presented for modeling total cross-section of both pp and [Formula: see text] collisions from low to ultra high energy regions using an efficient artificial neural network (ANN). We have used the input (center-of-mass energy, [Formula: see text], and type of particle P) and output (total cross-section σ tot ) data to build a prediction model by ANN. The neural network has been trained to produce a function that studies the dependence of σ tot on [Formula: see text] and P. The trained ANN model shows a good performance in matching the trained distributions, predicts cross-sections that are not presented in the training set. The general trend of the predicted values shows a good agreement with the recent Large Hadron Collider (LHC) measurements, where the total cross-section at [Formula: see text] and 8 TeV are measured to be 98.6 mb and 101.7 mb, respectively. The predicted values of the total cross-section at [Formula: see text] and 14 TeV are found to be 105.8 mb and 111.7 mb, respectively. Those predictions are in good agreement with Block, Cudell and Nakamura.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Al-Buriahi ◽  
Z.A. Alrowaili ◽  
Safa Ezzine ◽  
I.O. Olarinoye ◽  
Sultan Alomairy ◽  
...  

Abstract In this work, the Klein–Nishina (K–N) approach was used to evaluate the electronic, atomic, and energy-transfer cross sections of four elements, namely, zinc (Zn), tellurium (Te), barium (Ba), and bismuth (Bi), for different photon energies (0.662 MeV, 0.835 MeV, 1.170 MeV, 1.330 MeV, and 1.600 MeV). The obtained results were compared with the Monte Carlo method (Geant4 simulation) in terms of mass attenuation and mass energy-transfer coefficients. The results show that the K–N approach and Geant4 simulations are in good agreement for the entire energy range considered. As the photon energy increased from 0.662 MeV to 1.600 MeV, the values of the energy-transfer cross sections decreased from 81.135 cm2 to 69.184 cm2 in the case of Bi, from 50.832 cm2 to 43.344 cm2 for Te, from 54.742 cm2 to 46.678 cm2 for Ba, and from 29.326 cm2 to 25.006 cm2 for Zn. The obtained results and the detailed information of the attenuation properties for the studied elements would be helpful in developing a new generation of shielding materials against gamma rays.


Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
George Duffy ◽  
Fraser King ◽  
Ralf Bennartz ◽  
Christopher G. Fletcher

CloudSat is often the only measurement of snowfall rate available at high latitudes, making it a valuable tool for understanding snow climatology. The capability of CloudSat to provide information on seasonal and subseasonal time scales, however, has yet to be explored. In this study, we use subsampled reanalysis estimates to predict the uncertainties of CloudSat snow water equivalent (SWE) accumulation measurements at various space and time resolutions. An idealized/simulated subsampling model predicts that CloudSat may provide seasonal SWE estimates with median percent errors below 50% at spatial scales as small as 2° × 2°. By converting these predictions to percent differences, we can evaluate CloudSat snowfall accumulations against a blend of gridded SWE measurements during frozen time periods. Our predictions are in good agreement with results. The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of the percent differences between the two measurements all match predicted values within eight percentage points. We interpret these results to suggest that CloudSat snowfall estimates are in sufficient agreement with other, thoroughly vetted, gridded SWE products. This implies that CloudSat may provide useful estimates of snow accumulation over remote regions within seasonal time scales.


Author(s):  
Charles J. Oswald

Measurements made on a long span reinforced concrete arch culvert under 7.3 m (24 ft) of silty clay backfill were compared with results from finite-element analyses of the soil-structure system using the CANDE finite-element code. The culvert strains and deflections and the soil pressure on the culvert were measured during construction and during the following 2.5 years at three instrumented cross sections. The CANDE program was modified to account for the effects of concrete creep and shrinkage strains after it was noted that the measured postconstruction culvert deflection and strains increased significantly whereas the measured soil pressure on the culvert remained relatively constant. Good agreement was generally obtained between measured and calculated values of the culvert strain and deflection and the soil pressure during the entire monitoring period after the code was modified.


1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 748-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Niewitecka ◽  
L. Krause

The disorientation of 62P1/2 cesium atoms, induced in collisions with noble gas atoms in their ground states, was systematically investigated by monitoring the depolarization of cesium resonance fluorescence in relation to noble gas pressures. The Cs atoms, contained together with a buffer gas in a fluorescence cell and located in zero magnetic field, were excited and oriented by irradiation with circularly polarized 8943 Å resonance radiation, and the resonance fluorescence, emitted in an approximately backward direction, was analyzed with respect to circular polarization. The experiments yielded the following disorientation cross sections which have been corrected for the effects of nuclear spin: Cs–He: 4.9 ± 0.7 Å2; Cs–Ne: 2.1 ± 0.3 Å2; Cs–Ar: 5.6 ± 0.8 Å2; Cs–Kr: 5.8 ± 0.9 Å2; Cs–Xe: 6.3 ± 0.9 Å2. The results are in good agreement with most of the available zero-field and low-field data.


1950 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur H. Snell ◽  
E. C. Barker ◽  
R. L. Sternberg
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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Totterdill ◽  
Tamás Kovács ◽  
Wuhu Feng ◽  
Sandip Dhomse ◽  
Christopher J. Smith ◽  
...  

Abstract. Fluorinated compounds such as NF3 and C2F5Cl (CFC-115) are characterised by very large global warming potentials (GWPs) which result from extremely long atmospheric lifetimes and strong infrared absorptions in the atmospheric window. In this study we have experimentally determined the infrared absorption cross-sections of NF3 and CFC-115, calculated the radiative forcing and efficiency using two radiative transfer models and identified the effect of clouds and stratospheric adjustment. The infrared cross sections are in good agreement with previous measurements, whereas the resulting radiative forcings and efficiencies are, on average, around 10 % larger. A whole atmosphere chemistry-climate model was used to determine the atmospheric lifetimes of NF3 and CFC-115 to be (616 ± 34) years and (492 ± 22) years, respectively. The GWPs for NF3 are estimated to be 14 600, 19 400 and 21 400 over 20, 100 and 500 years, respectively. Similarly, the GWPs for CFC-115 are 6120, 8060 and 8630 over 20, 100 and 500 years, respectively.


2018 ◽  
Vol 620 ◽  
pp. A188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valdas Jonauskas

Electron-impact single- and double-ionization cross sections and Maxwellian rate coefficients are presented for the carbon atom. Scaling factors are introduced for the electron-impact excitation and ionization cross sections obtained in the distorted wave (DW) approximation. It is shown that the scaled DW cross sections provide good agreement with measurements for the single ionization of the C atom and C1+ ion. The direct double-ionization (DDI) process is studied using a multi-step approach. Ionization–ionization, excitation–ionization–ionization, and ionization–excitation–ionization branches are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the three-step processes contribute ≼40% of the total DDI cross sections for the case where one of the electrons takes all of the excess energy after the first ionization process.


1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 230-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. V. Rao ◽  
R. Cesareo ◽  
G. E. Gigante

LL, Lα, Lβ, and Lγ X-ray fluorescence cross sections for Pr, Sm, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, Pt Au, and Pb were measured at the excitation energy 16.58 keV. An X-ray tube and a secondary excitor system was used instead of radioisotopes for the measurements. Experimental cross sections are compared with the theoretical estimates based on relativistic Dirac–Hartree–Slater theory. Average L-shell fluorescence yields [Formula: see text] are deduced using the present experimental cross sections and the theoretical subshell photoionization cross sections. The derived average fluorescence yields are fitted by least squares to polynomials in Z of the form ΣnanZn and compared with theoretical and earlier fitted values. Good agreement is observed ' between the experimental results and the theoretical estimates based on relativistic Dirac–Hartree–Slater theory.


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