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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 3 | September 1971 | Pages 269-278
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19079
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The in-scattering sources in the group-Legendre expansion of the Boltzmann equation can be classified by four-index sources, four-index cross sections, or four-index kernels, depending on the type of multigroup approximation used. These four-index transfer elements are related to basic cross-section data through a general four-way logic which applies to narrow and wide groups alike, to heavy and light scatterers alike, and to elastic and single-level inelastic scattering alike. As an application of the logic, the effect of inelastic energy-angle correlation on the calculation of some reactor parameters is demonstrated.