Surface roughness effect on ultracold neutron interaction with a wall and implications for computer simulations

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Steyerl, A ^a   Malik, S S ^a   Desai, A M ^a   Kaufman, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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EID: 77953260971     PISSN: 05562813     EISSN: 1089490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.81.055505     Document Type: Article

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