Measurements of photoneutrons produced by a 15 MeV electron linac for radiography applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 361-366

  Huang, W L ^a   Li, Q F ^a   Lin, Y Z ^a   Su, Q ^a   Luo, Y S ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electron linac; Monte Carlo simulation; Photoneutron measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

ELECTRON LINAC; NEUTRON FLUX; PHOTONEUTRON MEASUREMENT;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 33749367568     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.07.018     Document Type: Article

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