Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2021) 136: 636
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01572-z

Regular Article

Electronegativity and optical basicity of glasses containing Na/Pb/B and their high performance for radiation applications: role of ZrO₂ nanoparticles

¹ Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, P.O. 71524, Assiut, Egypt
² Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, P.O. 71524, Assiut, Egypt
³ Department of Physics, College of Science, Taif University, P. O. Box 11099, 21944, Taif, Saudi Arabia
⁴ Department of Physics, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

^a essam.ah77@gmail.com, essamabdelwahab1011.el@azhar.edu.eg

Received: 22 January 2021
Accepted: 17 May 2021
Published online: 5 June 2021

Abstract

Transparent sodium lead-borate glasses-doped zirconium nanoparticles were synthesized. Some physical and optical constants like molar refractivity, molar polarizability ${\propto }_{\mathrm{m}}$ electronegativity, optical basicity and indirect optical band gap are estimated. The radiation parameters for NPBZ glasses as mass attenuation coefficient, linear attenuation, HVL, TVL, N_eff, Z_eff, Z_eq, energy exposure factor and energy absorption buildup factor were determined depending on XCOM and Phy-X/PSD programs. The relative deviation and radiation protection efficiency are produced. The fast neutron removal is calculated in terms of $\sum R$. The investigated results indicate that transparent Na/Pb/B glasses containing zirconium nanoparticle are a good candidate substance for gamma ray and fast neutron removal protection.