Shielding design for the front end of the CERN SPL

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 553-558

  Magistris, Matteo ^a   Silari, Marco ^a   Vincke, Helmut ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PROTON;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRINO; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SUPERCONDUCTING PROTON LINAC; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 30844458566     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci145     Document Type: Article

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