Investigation of Photon Radiation Attenuation Capability of Different Clay Materials.

This work aims to experimentally report the radiation attenuation factors for four different clays (red, ball, kaolin and bentonite clays) at four selected energies (emitted from Am-241, Cs-137, and Co-60). The highest relative difference in the mass attenuation coefficient (MAC) is equal to -3.02%, but most of the other results are much smaller than this value, proving that the experimental and theoretical data greatly agree with each other.