Measurement of neutron excitation functions using wide energy neutron beams

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 580, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1400-1409

  Lövestam, Göran ^a   Hult, Mikael ^a   Fessler, Andreas ^a   Gamboni, Thierry ^a   Gasparro, Joël ^a   Geerts, Wouter ^a   Jaime, Ricardo ^a   Lindahl, Patric ^a   Oberstedt, Stephan ^a   Tagziria, Hamid ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neutron activation cross section measurement; Neutron excitation function; Spectrum unfolding

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; SPECTROMETRY;

NEUTRON ACTIVATION CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON EXCITATION FUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM UNFOLDING;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 34548686565     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.090     Document Type: Article

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