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Uncertainties in neutron activation analysis resulting from reactor noise

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The stochastic processes of activation, disintegration and counting have been studied, taking into account reactor noise. Deviation of the variance of the number of counts from Poisson limit is shown to result. Explicit expressions for the variance in the case of Markovian autocorrelation function of the neutron flux density are presented and their relevance to neutron activation analysis is discussed.

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Sima, O. Uncertainties in neutron activation analysis resulting from reactor noise. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 174, 65–72 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02040334

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