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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
H. A. Larson, N. J. McCormick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 1 | January 1973 | Pages 10-19
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A22583
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Solutions for collision densities in a slab with an energy- and angle-dependent degenerate scattering kernel are developed. The slab distribution is expanded in a set of regular and singular eigenfunctions and the expansion coefficients are obtained as solutions of a matrix integral equation. From invariance principles, this integral equation depends upon the half-space generalized Milne solution. To obtain this solution one must solve a nonlinear matrix equation for a generalization of the Chandrasekhar H-function. Approximate solutions and numerical calculations for the heavy-gas scatterer are presented, including emergent distributions for the slab.