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Conservation During Doppler Broadening

Dermott E. Cullen

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 52 / Number 4 / December 1973 / Pages 498-500

Technical Note / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23321

Conservation under Doppler broadening is examined. It is shown that the area under the cross-section curve is not conserved and that the only conservation law associated with Doppler broadening is the integral of the reaction rate over all phase space.