2005/06/21 by Daniel Ballester, D. Ballester, Ballester, Daniel +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysical Methods and Applications #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #physics.data-an
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0506166
25 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2005/06/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/06/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Stochastic neutron transport theory is applied to the derivation of the two-neutron-detectors cross power spectral density for subcritical assemblies when external pulsed sources are used. A general relationship between the two-detector probability generating functions of the kernel and the source is obtained considering the contribution to detectors statistics of both the pulsed source and the intrinsic neutron source. An expansion in alpha-eigenvalues is derived for the final solution, which permits to take into account the effect of higher harmonics in subcritical systems. Further, expressions corresponding to the fundamental mode approximation are compared with recent results from experiments performed under the MUSE-4 European research project.