Determination of workplace neutron spectra at a high energy hadron accelerator using active and passive Bonner sphere spectrometers

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 43, Issue 2-6, 2008, Pages 1113-1117

  Bedogni, R ^a   Esposito, A ^a   Chiti, M ^a  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bonner spheres; High energy neutrons; Neutron spectrometry; TLD pairs

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER NETWORKS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CARBON TARGETS; GERMANY; HIGH-ENERGY HADRONS; INTER COMPARISON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON SPECTRUM;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 44949147172     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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