AMANDE: A new facility for monoenergetic neutron fields production between 2 keV and 20 MeV

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 49-52

  Gressier, Vincent ^a   Guerre Chaley, J F ^a   Lacoste, V ^a   Lebreton, L ^a   Pelcot, G ^a   Pochat, J L ^a   Bolognese Milstajn, T ^a   Champion, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MONITOR;

BODY BURDEN; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; ITALY; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644227742     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch185     Document Type: Article

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