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 A Treatise on the Physics of Branching Processes
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By
Imre Pázsit , Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Goteborg, Sweden
Lén&aacu Pál, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Description
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.
Audience
Scientists in academia and government and research institutes as well as nuclear engineers. It is also suitable for postgraduates and gradutate students.
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 Pal-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
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Hardbound, 360 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045064-3
ISBN-10: 0-08-045064-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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