NEUTRON THERMALIZATION IN LIGHT WATER - MEASUREMENT AND CALCULATION OF SPECTRA

被引:10
作者
ABBATE, MJ [1 ]
LOLICH, JV [1 ]
PARKINSON, TF [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV NACL CUYO,COMISION NAC ENERGIA ATOM,CTR ATOM BARILOCHE INST FIS DR JA BALSEIRO,BARILOCHE,ARGENTINA
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10.13182/NSE76-A26908
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TL [原子能技术]; O571 [原子核物理学];
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0827 ; 082701 ;
摘要
Neutron spectra have been measured for pure water and for boric acid solutions using the time-of-flight technique. After a critical review of the available calculational methods, three methods were selected for comparison with the experiments. The best method proved to be a transport code (modified DTF-IV) incorporating a bound hydrogen model based on the modified Haywood II frequency spectrum. For the pure-water spectrum, the largest discrepancy between theory and measurement was 16%.
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