The Hiroshima thermal-neutron discrepancy for 36Cl at large distances. Part I: New 36Cl measurements in granite samples exposed to A-bomb neutrons

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-86

  Huber, Thomas ^a   Rühm, Werner ^d,e   Kato, Kazuo ^b   Egbert, Stephen D ^c   Kubo, Florian ^a   Lazarev, Vitali ^a   Nolte, Eckehart ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Hiroshima Prefectural Coll Hlth Sci   (Japan)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GRANITE; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

A-BOMB NEUTRONS; HYPOCENTERS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CHLORINE 36; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; GRANITE; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUTRON RADIATION; SAMPLE;

BIOPHYSICS; CHLORINE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 27644511572     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-005-0010-7     Document Type: Article

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