Screened Rutherford pencil beam problem with heterogeneities

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-14

  Pomraning, G C ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS;

HOMOGENIZATION ALGORITHM; PENCIL BEAM PROBLEM; SCREENED RUTHERFORD SCATTERING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0034271990     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE00-A2144     Document Type: Article

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