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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Technical Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chairs:
Imre Pázsit (Chalmers University of Technology)
Anil Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Session Organizers:
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Lénárd Pál - His Time, His Professional Life, and Reminiscences of a Collaboration
8:30–8:55AM EDT
I. Pázsit (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)
Paper
The Contribution of Erwin Schroedinger to the Calculation of the Extinction Probability and its Comparison with the Work of Lénárd Pál
8:55–9:20AM EDT
M.M.R. Williams (Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Pál-Bell Theory: Beyond the Neutron Number Distribution
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico), Patrick F. O'Rourke (LANL)
Towards a More Realistic Analysis of Neutron Clustering
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Thomas M. Sutton (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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