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Resonance Theory in Reactor Applications

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The most essential objective in reactor physics is to provide an accurate account of the intricate balance between the neutrons produced by the fission process and those lost due to the absorption process as well as those leaking out of the reactor. The presence of resonance structures in neutron cross sections obviously plays an important role in such processes. Therefore, the treatment of neutron resonance phenomena has constituted one of the most fundamental subjects in reactor physics since its conception. It is the area where the concepts of nuclear reaction and the treatment of the neutronic balance in reactor lattices over a wide span of energy become intertwined. The basic issue here is how to apply the microscopic neutron cross sections in the macroscopic reactor systems. Because of its importance to reactor physics, much of the existing nuclear data and a significant portion of all cross-section processing codes downstream are devoted to the treatment of resonance phenomena prior to any meaningful neutronic calculations via either the deterministic or Monte Carlo approaches.

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Hwang†, R.N. (2010). Resonance Theory in Reactor Applications. In: Nuclear Computational Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3411-3_5

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