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Neutron spectrum and yield of accompanying photon radiation of lithium neutron sources

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A. A. Bochvar All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Materials. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 134-139, February, 1993.

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Vlaskin, G.N., Chvankin, E.V. Neutron spectrum and yield of accompanying photon radiation of lithium neutron sources. At Energy 74, 129–134 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00760355

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