Analytic score distributions for a spatially continuous tridirectional Monte Carlo transport problem

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-92

  Booth, Thomas E ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANALYTIC SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO TRANSPORT CODES; STATISTICAL ERRORS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 0029780590     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A28549     Document Type: Article

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