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Noel Corngold, Paul Michael, Warren Wollman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 1 | January 1963 | Pages 13-19
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26259
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We examine herein the decay constants,λk which appear in the modal expansion of the neutron density in a study of the time-dependent thermalization of neutrons. A study of the proton gas moderator indicates the existence of an infinite number of discrete λk in the range . The upper limit is a limit point for the eigenvalue sequence. Consideration of more general models indicates the existence of a discrete spectrum in the range 0 min and max and a continuous spectrum in .