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Author Pázsit, Imre

Title Neutron fluctuations : a treatise on the physics on branching processes / Imre Pázsit, Lénárd Pál
Edition 1st ed
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages) : illustrations, color plate
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of most frequently used notations -- Part I. Physics of Branching Processes -- 1. Basic Notions -- 2. Generalisation of the Problem -- 3. Injections of Particles -- 4. Special Probabilities -- 5. Other Characteristic Probabilities -- 6. Branching Processes in a Randomly Varying Medium -- 7. One-Dimensional Branching Process -- Part II. Neutron Fluctuations -- 8. Neutron Fluctuations in the Phase Space: The P̀l-Bell Equation -- 9. Reactivity Measurement Methods in Traditional Systems -- 10. Reactivity Measurements in Accelerator Driven Systems -- 11. Theory of Multiplicity in Nuclear Safeguards -- Appendices -- A. Elements of the Theory of Generating Functions -- B. Supplement to the Survival Probability -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The transport of neutrons in a multiplying system is an area of branching processes with a clear formalism. This book presents an account of the mathematical tools used in describing branching processes, which are then used to derive a large number of properties of the neutron distribution in multiplying systems with or without an external source. In the second part of the book, the theory is applied to the description of the neutron fluctuations in nuclear reactor cores as well as in small samples of fissile material. The question of how to extract information about the system under study is discussed. In particular the measurement of the reactivity of subcritical cores, driven with various Poisson and non-Poisson (pulsed) sources, and the identification of fissile material samples, is illustrated. The book gives pragmatic information for those planning and executing and evaluating experiments on such systems. - Gives a complete treatise of the mathematics of branching particle processes, and in particular neutron fluctuations, in a self-contained manner; - The first monograph containing the theory and application of neutron fluctuations in low power ADS (spallation and pulsed sources); - Suitable as a tutorial and handbook/reference book for scientists and graduate students; - One of the authors is the founder of the mathematical theory of neutron fluctuations in zero power systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Branching processes.
Neutrons.
MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- Stochastic Processes.
Branching processes
Neutrons
Form Electronic book
Author Pál, Lénard.
ISBN 9780080450643
0080450644
9780080550435
0080550436