Automated weight-window generation for threat detection applications using advantg

American Nuclear Society - International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics 2009, M and C 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1334-1346

  Mosher, Scott W ^a   Miller, Thomas M ^a   Evans, Thomas M ^a   Wagner, John C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid transport methods; Nuclear material detection; Weight window simulations

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; CARGO CONTAINERS; DETERMINISTIC CALCULATIONS; DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM; DISCRETE ORDINATES; ERROR VARIANCE; FUSION NEUTRONS; GAMMA SOURCE; GAMMA SPECTRUM; HOME LAND SECURITY; HYBRID COMPUTATIONAL; HYBRID METHOD; IMPORTANCE MAP; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEW APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR MATERIAL; NUCLEAR MATERIAL DETECTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PASSIVE DETECTION; PORTAL MONITORS; SCOPE OF APPLICATION; SHIELDED NEUTRONS; SOURCE BIASING; THREAT DETECTION; TRANSPORT METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON SOURCES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; TRITIUM; WEIGHING; WINDOWS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 76749153936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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