Development of scinful-qmd code to calculate the neutron detection efficiencies for liquid organic scintillator up to 3 gev

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2002, Pages 657-660

  Satoh, Daiki ^a   Kunieda, Satoshi ^a   Iwamoto, Yosuke ^a   Shigyo, Nobuhiro ^a   Ishibashi, Kenji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 GeV; Detection efficiency; Liquid organic scintillator; Monte Carlo; Ne 213; Neutorn; Qmd; Scinful

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010495329     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223131.2002.10875185     Document Type: Article

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