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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.