Measurements of the neutron yields from 7Li(p,n)7be reaction (thick target) with incident energies from 1.885 to 2.0 MeV

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7 I, 1998, Pages 1222-1224

  Yu, Weixiang ^a   Yue, Gang ^b,c   Han, Xiaogang ^a   Chen, Jinxiang ^b   Tian, Bo ^c  

^a CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OUR Intl Sci Technol Devmt C ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Accelerator neutron source; BNCT; Lithium target

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS; ION BEAMS; NEUTRON SOURCES; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTON BEAMS;

7LI(P ,N)7BE REACTION; ACCELERATOR-BASED NEUTRON SOURCES; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS; BNCT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; INCIDENT BEAM DIRECTION;

NEUTRONS;

BERYLLIUM; LITHIUM; PROTON;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031841129     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598299     Document Type: Article

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