Photon cross sections and attenuation coefficients

Material Name
Composition
(e.g., SiO2:0.81;B2O3:0.13;104:0.06)
Density (gr/cc)
Energies (MeV)

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1	Hydrogen	2	Helium	3	Lithium	4	Beryllium	5	Boron
6	Amorphous carbon	7	Nitrogen	8	Oxygen	9	Fluorine	10	Neon
11	Sodium	12	Magnesium	13	Aluminum	14	Silicon	15	Phosphorus
16	Sulfur	17	Chlorine	18	Argon	19	Potassium	20	Calcium
21	Scandium	22	Titanium	23	Vanadium	24	Chromium	25	Manganese
26	Iron	27	Cobalt	28	Nickel	29	Copper	30	Zinc
31	Gallium	32	Germanium	33	Arsenic	34	Selenium	35	Bromine
36	Krypton	37	Rubidium	38	Strontium	39	Yttrium	40	Zirconium
41	Niobium	42	Molybdenum	43	Technetium	44	Ruthenium	45	Rhodium
46	Palladium	47	Silver	48	Cadmium	49	Indium	50	Tin
51	Antimony	52	Tellurium	53	Iodine	54	Xenon	55	Cesium
56	Barium	57	Lanthanum	58	Cerium	59	Praseodymium	60	Neodymium
61	Promethium	62	Samarium	63	Europium	64	Gadolinium	65	Terbium
66	Dysprosium	67	Holmium	68	Erbium	69	Thulium	70	Ytterbium
71	Lutetium	72	Hafnium	73	Tantalum	74	Tungsten	75	Rhenium
76	Osmium	77	Iridium	78	Platinum	79	Gold	80	Mercury
81	Thallium	82	Lead	83	Bismuth	84	Polonium	85	Astatine
86	Radon	87	Francium	88	Radium	89	Actinium	90	Thorium
91	Protactinium	92	Uranium	93	Neptunium	94	Plutonium	95	Americium
96	Curium	97	Berkelium	98	Californium

99	A-150 tissue-equivalent plastic	100	Acetone	101	Acetylene	102	Adenine	103	Adipose tissue (icrp)
104	Air, dry (near sea level)	105	Alanine	106	Aluminum oxide	107	Amber	108	Ammonia
109	Aniline	110	Anthracene	111	B-100 bone-equivalent plastic	112	Bakelite	113	Barium fluoride
114	Barium sulfate	115	Benzene	116	Beryllium oxide	117	Bismuth germanium oxide	118	Blood (icrp)
119	Bone, compact (icru)	120	Bone, cortical (icrp)	121	Boron carbide	122	Boron oxide	123	Brain (icrp)
124	Butane	125	N-butyl alcohol	126	C-552 air-equivalent plastic	127	Cadmium telluride	128	Cadmium tungstate
129	Calcium carbonate	130	Calcium fluoride	131	Calcium oxide	132	Calcium sulfate	133	Calcium tungstate
134	Carbon dioxide	135	Carbon tetrachloride	136	Cellulose acetate, cellophane	137	Cellulose acetate butyrate	138	Cellulose nitrate
139	Ceric sulfate dosimeter solution	140	Cesium fluoride	141	Cesium iodide	142	Chlorobenzene	143	Chloroform
144	Concrete, portland	145	Cyclohexane	146	1,2-Dichlorobenzene	147	Dichlorodiethyl ether	148	1,2-Dichloroethane
149	Diethyl ether	150	N,n-dimethyl formamide	151	Dimethyl sulfoxide	152	Ethane	153	Ethyl alcohol
154	Ethyl cellulose	155	Ethylene	156	Eye lens (icrp)	157	Ferric oxide	158	Ferroboride
159	Ferrous oxide	160	Ferrous sulfate dosimeter solution	161	Freon-12	162	Freon-12b2	163	Freon-13
164	Freon-13b1	165	Freon-13i1	166	Gadolinium oxysulfide	167	Gallium arsenide	168	Gel in photographic emulsion
169	Pyrex glass	170	Glass, lead	171	Glass, plate	172	Glucose	173	Glutamine
174	Glycerol	175	Guanine	176	Gypsum, plaster of paris	177	N-heptane	178	N-hexane
179	Kapton polyimide film	180	Lanthanum oxybromide	181	Lanthanum oxysulfide	182	Lead oxide	183	Lithium amide
184	Lithium carbonate	185	Lithium fluoride	186	Lithium hydride	187	Lithium iodide	188	Lithium oxide
189	Lithium tetraborate	190	Lung (icrp)	191	M3 wax	192	Magnesium carbonate	193	Magnesium fluoride
194	Magnesium oxide	195	Magnesium tetraborate	196	Mercuric iodide	197	Methane	198	Methanol
199	Mix d wax	200	Ms20 tissue substitute	201	Muscle, skeletal (icrp)	202	Muscle, striated (icru)	203	Muscle-equivalent liquid, with sucrose
204	Muscle-equivalent liquid, without sucrose	205	Napthalene	206	Nitrobenzene	207	Nitrous oxide	208	Nylon, du pont elvamide 8062
209	Nylon, type 6 and type 6/6	210	Nylon, type 6/10	211	Nylon, type 11 (rilsan)	212	Octane, liquid	213	Paraffin wax
214	N-pentane	215	Photographic emulsion	216	Plastic scintillator (vinyltoluene based)	217	Plutonium dioxide	218	Polyacrylonitrile
219	Polycarbonate (makrolon, lexan)	220	Polychlorostyrene	221	Polyethylene	222	Polyethylene terephthalate (mylar)	223	Polymethyl methacralate (lucite, perspex, plexiglass)
224	Polyoxymethylene	225	Polypropylene	226	Polystyrene	227	Polytetrafluoroethylene (teflon)	228	Polytrifluorochloroethylene
229	Polyvinyl acetate	230	Polyvinyl alcohol	231	Polyvinyl butyral	232	Polyvinyl chloride	233	Polyvinylidene chloride, saran
234	Polyvinylidene fluoride	235	Polyvinyl pyrrolidone	236	Potassium iodide	237	Potassium oxide	238	Propane
239	Propane, liquid	240	N-propyl alcohol	241	Pyridine	242	Rubber, butyl	243	Rubber, natural
244	Rubber, neoprene	245	Silicon dioxide	246	Silver bromide	247	Silver chloride	248	Silver halides in photographic emulsion
249	Silver iodide	250	Skin (icrp)	251	Sodium carbonate	252	Sodium iodide	253	Sodium monoxide
254	Sodium nitrate	255	Stilbene	256	Sucrose	257	Terphenyl	258	Testes (icrp)
259	Tetrachloroethylene	260	Thallium chloride	261	Tissue, soft (icrp)	262	Tissue, soft (icru four-component)	263	Tissue-equivalent gas (methane based)
264	Tissue-equivalent gas (propane based)	265	Titanium dioxide	266	Toluene	267	Trichloroethylene	268	Triethyl phosphate
269	Tungsten hexafluoride	270	Uranium dicarbide	271	Uranium monocarbide	272	Uranium oxide	273	Urea
274	Valine	275	Viton fluoroelastomer	276	Water, liquid	277	Water vapor	278	Xylene
906	Carbon (graphite)