Neutron spectrometry around a high-energy electron-positron collider using a multi-sphere system with passive detectors

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 126, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 541-545

  Bedogni, Roberto ^a   Esposito, A ^a   Chiti, M ^a   Angelone, M ^b  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; PROTON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHOTON; POSITRON; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 52249093816     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm109     Document Type: Article

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