Sensitivity studies of air scattered neutron dose from particle accelerators

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 57, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 261-270

  Prabhakar Rao, G ^a   Sarkar, P K ^a  

^a VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Neutron skyshine dose; Response surface methodology; Sensitivity coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031335192     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811811     Document Type: Article

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