Characterization of a new external neutron beam facility at the Ohio State University

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 321-327

  Turkoglu, Danyal ^a   Burke, Joshua ^a   Lewandowski, Radoslaw ^a   Cao, Lei R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Index terms: neutron collimator; MCNP; Modulation transfer function; Neutron beam filters; Neutron depth profiling; Neutron imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872389116     PISSN: 02365731     EISSN: 15882780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10967-011-1289-2     Document Type: Article

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