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Slowing Down from an Energy Distributed Neutron Source

A. Keane

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 10 / Number 2 / June 1961 / Pages 117-119

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25947

Series expansion of the Laplace transforms occurring in slowing-down theory is shown to reproduce and extend the usual approximate solutions for an energy distributed source in an infinite nonabsorbing medium. The method also leads to a differential equation for the slowing-down density in an absorbing medium, which may be solved to any required accuracy.