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A procedure is described for the functional fitting of reactor neutron spectra with C/En and fission spectra. The method is applied to multicomponent activation detector measurements in a Triga research reactor. In multicomponent detectors a mixture of several detector materials is irradiated as a single unit and measured simultaneously for all reaction products with a Ge(Li) gamma ray spectrometer.
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Sandberg, J.V., Lund, P.D. Determination of reactor neutron spectra with multicomponent activation detectors. J. Radioanal. Chem. 76, 151–170 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02519666
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