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All processes occurring in nature are based on interactions between elementary particles mediated by the four fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak, and strong interaction, and gravitation). For composite particles, processes occur which can be regarded as effective interactions. Examples are nuclear reactions of neutrons in matter, the Bremsstrahlung emission of charged particles in the Coulomb field of atomic nuclei, or the radioactive decay of unstable isotopes.

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    Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to PW-intensities. The laser pulse is stretched temporally and spectrally with optical gratings to decrease the energy density prior to a second amplification. Afterwards the broad laser pulse is compressed again. Without chirping the pulse, the amplifier medium would be destroyed by non-linear optical effects.

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    A Primary Knock-on Atom is an atom that is the first atom that is displaced from its lattice position by irradiation. With sufficient energy, the PKA can induce subsequent displacements of other atoms resulting in a damage cascade.

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    This is the mean energy of neutrons produced in nuclear fission of 235U.

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    A pseudorandom number generator is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers which are approximately randomly distributed. The sequence is not truly random, because it is completely determined by an initial value, called the seed.

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Dabruck, J.P. (2018). Physical and Technical Principles. In: Target Station Optimization for the High-Brilliance Neutron Source HBS. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05639-1_2

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