Fission-product gamma-ray line pairs sensitive to fissile material and neutron energy
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Fission-product gamma-ray line pairs sensitive to fissile material and neutron energy R.E. Marrs a, , E.B. Norman , J.T. Burke , R.A. Macri , H.A. Shugart , E. Browne , A.R. Smith d a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA b Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA c Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA d Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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