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Spallation Reactions in Applied and Fundamental Research

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Spallation reactions have recently gained new interest not only due to their application as neutron or radioactive nuclear beam sources but also for their implications in understanding cosmic ray abundances or investigating the dynamics of nuclear matter. The purpose of this lecture is to discuss the role of these reactions in different areas of interest, the modern experimental techniques currently being used for their investigation and finally some fundamental underlying physics.

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Benlliure, J. (2006). Spallation Reactions in Applied and Fundamental Research. In: Al-Khalili, J., Roeckl, E. (eds) The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. II. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33787-3_5

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