Calculations of the giant-dipole-resonance photoneutrons using a coupled EGS4-MORSE code

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 70, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 49-54

  Liu, J C ^a   Nelson, W R ^a   Kase, K R ^a   Mao, X S ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LEAD; TANTALUM; TUNGSTEN;

ALGORITHM; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIPOLE; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; EVAPORATION; FAST NEUTRON RADIATION; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHOTON; RADIATION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030977691     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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