Calculation of the pulsed Feynman-alpha formulae and their experimental verification

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 986-1007

  Pazsit I ^a   Kitamura, Y ^b   Wright, J ^a   Misawa, T ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEYNMAN-ALPHA FORMULA; NEUTRON DECAY; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; PULSING METHODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 16244366098     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2004.12.007     Document Type: Article

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