Some aspects of the mathematical modeling of prompt gamma neutron activation analysis

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Holloway, James Paul ^a   Akkurt, Hatice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NEUTRON LOGGING; SILICA; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; COMPOSITION DETERMINATION; CONTINUOUS DEPENDENCE; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; FIXED POINT ITERATION; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; PROMPT GAMMA NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842814409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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