1. Thermal neutrons at Gran Sasso
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Dębicki, Z., Jędrzejczak, K., Karczmarczyk, J., Kasztelan, M., Lewandowski, R., Orzechowski, J., Szabelski, J., Szeptycka, M., and Tokarski, P.
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THERMAL neutrons , *NUCLEAR counters , *HELIUM isotopes , *BACKGROUND radiation , *NEUTRON flux - Abstract
We have used a set of proportional counters filled with 3He to measure the thermal neutron background flux in the deep underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). The flux was equal to . During one week''s exposure we registered about 650 neutron signals above about 160 background signals, so using this method we would be able to measure 10 times smaller neutron flux. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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