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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 484-491
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A17591
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The propagation of neutron waves through crystalline moderator beryllium has been studied. The two simultaneous integral equations in the real and imaginary part of the flux are reduced to a single homogeneous integral equation in an extended energy interval and this is solved by an iterative procedure to determine the fundamental-mode eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for various angular frequencies of the source. We show that for frequencies exceeding a certain critical frequency ω*, no discrete mode exists. Various parameters have been deduced including D0, the diffusion constant, and C, the diffusion cooling constant. These values are compared with the values obtained from pulsed-neutron experiments.