Application of diamond nanoparticles in low-energy neutron physics

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1768-1781

  Nesvizhevsky, Valery ^a,d   Cubitt, Robert ^a   Lychagin, Egor ^b,d   Muzychka, Alexei ^b,d   Nekhaev, Grigory ^b,d   Pignol, Guillaume ^c   Protasov, Konstantin ^c   Strelkov, Alexander ^b,d  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1   (France)

^d Research Institute of Materials Technology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diamond nanoparticles; Neutron albedo; Slow neutrons

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTION; CRITICAL VELOCITIES; DIAMOND NANO-PARTICLES; DISORDERED MEDIUM; LOW-ENERGY NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR POTENTIALS; SLOW NEUTRONS; VERY COLD NEUTRONS;

NANOPARTICLES; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 79956214215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3031768     Document Type: Article

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