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    Neutron transport (also known as neutronics) is the study of the motions and interactions of neutrons with materials. Nuclear scientists and engineers...
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  • A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron...
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    > 1 MeV) of neutron fluence. Neutron flux causes reactor vessels to suffer from neutron embrittlement. Neutron radiation Neutron transport Stamm'ler, Rudi...
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    scattering Neutron triple-axis spectrometry Neutron time-of-flight scattering Neutron backscattering Neutron spin echo Neutron transport LARMOR neutron microscope...
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    The neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n0 , which has a neutral (not positive or negative) charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of...
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  • Fermi to aid in his studies of neutron transport. The FERMIAC employed the Monte Carlo method to model neutron transport in various types of nuclear systems...
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  • "Darioush Rezaei," a physics professor whose area of expertise was neutron transport, and who was linked to Iran's nuclear program. The victim was subsequently...
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    Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons. Typical phenomena are nuclear fission or nuclear fusion causing the release...
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    neutron population. A numerical measure of a critical mass depends on the effective neutron multiplication factor k, the average number of neutrons released...
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  • transfer Neutron transport Case, Kenneth; Zweifel, Paul (1967), Linear Transport Theory, Addison-Wesley Davison, Boris (1957), Neutron Transport Theory...
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    The neutron detection temperature, also called the neutron energy, indicates a free neutron's kinetic energy, usually given in electron volts. The term...
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    A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational...
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  • formula. To compute it, neutron transport theory is used. The nucleus can capture a neutron only if the kinetic energy of the neutron is close to the energy...
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  • fusion neutronics and radiation shielding. In addition to the original neutron transport capabilities, Serpent is able to perform photon transport. Leppänen...
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  • 1973 Reed and Hill introduced a DG method to solve the hyperbolic neutron transport equation. The origin of the DG method for elliptic problems cannot...
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    Neutron capture is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus and one or more neutrons collide and merge to form a heavier nucleus. Since neutrons...
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    A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. Neutron sources are used in physics, engineering...
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    computers continued in the late 1940s and beyond, with FERMIAC for neutron transport, Project Cyclone for various military applications, and the Phillips...
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    Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure...
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    engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, ideally without capturing any, leaving them as thermal neutrons with only...
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    Nuclear reactor (category Neutron sources)
    neutron populations in a reactor. One such process is delayed neutron emission by a number of neutron-rich fission isotopes. These delayed neutrons account...
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  • Neutron Transport Theory. Davison died suddenly at his home in Toronto on 24 January 1961 at the age of 52. Boris, Davison (1957). Neutron Transport Theory...
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  • susceptibility of a material in physics the fission neutron energy spectrum in neutron transport Ψ {\displaystyle \Psi } represents: water potential a...
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  • first thermonuclear weapon. Bell contributed by solving problems of neutron transport. Such problems are also crucial in the design and analysis of nuclear...
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  • worked with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. He specialized in neutron transport, a phenomenon that lies at the heart of nuclear chain reactions in...
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    sustained by fast neutrons (carrying energies above 1 MeV, on average), as opposed to slow thermal neutrons used in thermal-neutron reactors. Such a fast...
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  • the grid are found in fields such as computational chemistry and neutron transport. The surface integral of a function over the unit sphere, I [ f ]...
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    the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements. With his colleagues...
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  • question can be perhaps answered by detailed Monte Carlo simulations of neutron transport. The vessel's exhaust would contain radioactive isotopes, but in space...
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    invented by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1947 to aid in his studies of neutron transport. Project Cyclone was an analog computer developed by Reeves in 1950...
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