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Additional Remarks on the Number of Collisions Required to Slow Down a Neutron

Paul Reuss

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 93 / Number 1 / May 1986 / Pages 105-108

Technical Note / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17422

Some additional comments are made on recent publications on the number of collisions required to slow down a neutron. Four possible definitions of this number are proposed and discussed, but it is apparent that when the question is well reformulated, the ambiguity disappears.