Albedo Factor Determination of Some Selected Cu Compounds

Abstract

Albedo factor parameter has recently come to the fore as a remarkable topic. The albedo factor parameter consists of 3 components: albedo number, albedo dose, and albedo number. With the albedo factor calculation, one of the radiation shielding parameters, the incoming radiation scattering coefficient of the target sample is calculated. In this article, the albedo factors of some copper compounds have been examined. The related investigation of the selected samples has been carried out by using radiation sources and semiconductor detectors. Thereby, the calculated shielding parameters have been plotted as a function of the mean atomic numbers of target samples. Finally, this study shows that the increasing mean atomic number of the selected samples causes decreases in albedo factor parameters of the selected samples.