Bibliographic Data on Neutron Noise and Closely Related Information

Second Generation Update of "For Starters".

I had posted a short list, the so far scanned part of what I have collected over the years. It has only two real organization and classification frills, but is a start to work from. Below this section, are hot spots for the three catagories in the Bibliography

along with TWO OTHER ITEMS:
Descriptive Commentary on Neutron Noise
Commentary on two books you should read
If your in a hurry and want to skip the rest of my commentary,
BEAM ME there straight-away Skottie.

The Descriptive Material is an option to making a full Data Base with Searchable key words for lots of sub-topics. Time keeps escaping me. A way to make this data base is to search other peoples comments about papers and develop a key word list. This has not happened. Instead, I am going to gradually post some of the sections you would use to do this. I will not in general give citations because I do not want to take the time and I feel the "intellectual uses" rights under the copyright law clearly apply in this case. Perhaps I will add a generic source credit for the items used.

I suggest that you also help me by sending your favorite list. It does not have to be done and organized well. We can help out with that. Later you can tell us all the things we did wrong and we will fix them. In this way we will make progress rather than promises.

I hope to turn it into a searchable data base. That may be off line first. It depends on what good way I find to do it on and/or off line. Again suggestions are welcome. Also, we will need a list of catagories for indexing and searching. I will soon try to make up a starter list. Suggestions appreciated both before and after.

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Current Major Sections of the BIBLIOGRAPHY

o Journal articles and Similar Material
o Books - Neutron Noise more or less
o Books - Nuclear Engineering more or less
o A MUST READ, Book of the Year
o A SECOND MUST READ, Book of the Month NEW

Below is our Current effort.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1908

1. Langevin, P., "Sur la Theorie du Mouvement Brownien", Comptes Rendus, 146, 530 (1908).

1943

2. Wallace, P. R. and J. LeCaine, Elementary Approximations in the Theory of Neutron Diffusion, MT-12 (Aug. 1943).

1947

3. Courant, E. D. and P. R. Wallace, "Fluctuations of the Number of Neutrons in a Pile", Physical Review, 72, 11, 1038 (1947).

1955

4. Ussachoff, L. N., "Equation for the Importance of Neutrons, Reactor Kinetics and the Theory of Perturbation", ; 1955 Geneva Conference, 5,503, P/ 656.

1956

5. Feynman, R. P., F. De Hoffmann, and R. Serber, "Dispersion of the Neutron Enlission in U-235 Fission", Journal of Nuclear Energy, 3, 64 (1956).

1956

6. Brunson, G. S., R. Curran, S. Kaufmann, et. al., "Measuring the Prompt Period of a Reactor, Nucleonics, 15, 11, 132-41 (1957). (15:28756 and 28757 Nuclear Science Abstracts.)

1957

7. Keepin, G. R. et al., Delayed Neutrons from Fissionable Isotopes of Uranium, Plutonium, and Thorium, LA-2118 (Feb. 1957) .

1958

8. Pal, L., "On the Theory of Stochastic Processes in Nuclear Reactors", Nuovo Cimento (supplement), 7, 25 (1958).

9. Pal, L., "Statistical Fluctuations of Neutron Multiplication", ; 1958 Geneva Conference, 16, 687, P/ 1710.

10. Raievski, V., Fluctuations Statistiques du Nombre de Neutrons dans une pile, CEA 917 (1958). (14:1096 Nuclear Science Abstracts.)

1959

11. G.C. Baldwin, "Kinetics of a Reactor Composed of Two Loosely Coupled Cores", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 6, pp. 320 (1959)

12. Moore, M. N., "The Power Noise Transfer Function of a Reactor", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 6, 448-52 (1959).

1960

13. Bennett, Edgar F., "The Rice Formulation of Pile Noise", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 8, 53 (1960).

14. Cohn, Charles E., "A Simplified Theory of Pile Noise", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 7, 472 (1960).

15. Moon, Don P., Two-Dimensional Two-Group Calculation of the Argonaut One Slab Loading, ANL 6154 (1960).

16. Raievski, V., Fluctuations Statistiques Dans Les Piles, CEA 1673 (1960). (15:12455 Nuclear Science Abstracts.)

1961

17. Moguilner, A. I., "Measuring the Characteristics of Kinetics of a Reactor by the Statistical p- Method" and "Distribution of the Counting of a Neutron Detector placed in a Reactor", Atomic Energy, 10, 377 (1961); 379 (1961), and Physics of Fast and Intermediate Reactors, Vol, III, pp 33, IAEA, Vienna (1962).

1962

18. Blaquiere, A., and R. Pachowska, Fluctuations D'un Systems Dependent de Plusieurs Parametres Aleatorires, CEA 2115 (1962).

19. Matthes, W., "Statistical Fluctuations and Their Correlation in Reactor Neutron Distribution" Nukleonik, 4, 213 (1962).

20. Pal, L., "Statistical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactions, Part I, II, and III", ; Acta. Phys. Hung. Tom., 14, 345-80 (1962). (In Russian). English Translation by V. Shibayev, NP-TR-951 (August 1962).

21. Pal, L., Determination of the Prompt Neutron Period from the Fluctuations of the Number of Neutrons in a Reactor, Central Research, Central Research Institute of Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, (1962).

22. Pluta, Philip R., An Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Fluctuations by Methods of Stochastic Processes, Thesis, University of Michigan, 1962.

23. Rajagopal, V., "Determination of Reactor Transfer Functions by Statistical Correlation Methods", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 12, 218-24 (1962).

1963

24. Harris, D. R., "Neutron Fluctuations in Reactors of Finite Size", Transactions, American Nuclear Society, 6, 2, pp. 214 (1963).

25. Moore, M. N., "The Role of the Reactor Dispersion Function in the Noise Field of a Reactor", Transactions, American Nuclear Society 6, 2, pp. 213 (1963).

26. Osborn, R. K. and S. Yip, "Theory of Correlations and Fluctuations in Neutron Distributions", Transactions, American Nuclear Society, 6, 1, pp. 6 (1963).

1964

27. Badgley, Ronald W., and Robert E. Unrig, "Power-Spectral-Density Measurements in a Subcritical Nuclear Reactor", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 19, 158(1964).

28. Moore, M. N., Noise Analysis in Nuclear Systems, TID 7679 (1964), pp. 13.

29. Natelson, M. and R. K. Osborn, "A Comment on the Theory of Neutron Fluctuations in Power Reactors", Transactions, American Nuclear Society, 7, 1, pp. 60 (1964).

30. Osborn, R. K., "A Question Regarding the Interpretation of Spectral Density Measurements in Nuclear Reactors", Transactions, AmeriNuclear Society, 7, 279 (1964).

31. J.R. Sheff, "The Cross-Correlation of the Neutron Density Fluctuations at Two Points in a Nuclear Reactor", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington (1964)

32. Sheff, James R., and Robert W. Albrecht, "Power-Spectral Density of the Neutron-Density Fluctuations at a Single Point Within an Infinite Reactor", Transactions, American Nuclear Society, 7, 61 (1964).

33. Sheff, James R., "A General Equation for the Cross-Correlation of the Counts in Two Separate Time Intervals", Transactions, American Nuclear Society, 7, 278 (1964).

1965

1966

34. J.R. Sheff, "Space-Dependence of Reactor Noise - I Theory", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 24, pp. 246-259 l 1966)

35. J.R. Sheff, "Space-Dependence of Reactor Noise - II Results", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 24, pp. 242-244 l (1966)

36. J.R. Sheff, "Space-Dependent Cross Spectral Density in a Bare Cube", Neutron Noise, Waves, and Pulse Propagations. Proceedings of a Symposium at the University of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 623 (February 14-16, 1966)

1967

37. J.M. Betancourt and R.A. Danofsky, "A Space-Dependent Reactor Noise Formulation Based on the Natural Mode Approximation", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 38, pp. 77 (1967)

38. R.A. Danofsky, "Further Comment on A Space-Dependent Reactor Noise Formulation Utilizing Modal Expansions", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 37, pp. 222 (1967)

39. J.R. Sheff, "Exact Treatment of Neutron Fluctuations in Reflected Systems" Trans.Am. Nucl. Soc., Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 223 (1967)

1968

40. R. W. Albrecht and W. Seifritz, "Fundamental Properties of the Coherence Function in Symmetrical Two Node Systems", Nukleonik 11, pp. 147 (1968)

1969

41. R.A. Danofsky, "A Space-Dependent Reactor Noise Formulation Utilizing Modal Expansions", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 36, pp. 28-30 (1969)

42. R.A. Hendrickson and G. Murphy, "Cross-Spectral Density Measurements in A Coupled Core Reactor", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., 31, pp. 215 (1969)

43. N. Pacilio, "Reactor Noise Analysis in the Time Domain", TID-24512 (1969)

1974

44. D.D. Ebert, J.D. Clement, and W.M. Stacey, "Investigation of the Space-and Energy-Dependent Coherence Function in Zero Power Coupled-Core Reactors", Nucl. Sci. and Eng., pp. 368 (1974)

45. D.D. Ebert, J.D. Clement, and W.M. Stacey, "Interpretation of Coherence Function Measurements, in Zero-Power Coupled Core Reactots", Nucl. Sci. Eng., 55, pp. 380 (1974)

1976

46. Jean Paul Renier, "Multi-Group, Multi-Dimensional Investigations of the Power Spectral Densities of the Georgia Tech Research and the Fast-Thermal Argonaut Reactor", Ph.D. Thesis, G.T.I. (1976)

1979

1981

47. J.R. Sheff, "Contradictory Results in Neutron Noise", Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., Vol.38 pp. 673 (1981)

1985

48. P.B. Perez and J.R. Sheff, "Space-Dependent Neutron Noise in Large Loosely Coupled Systems", Trans. Am. Nuc. Soc., 12, pp. 435 (1985)

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49. ANL-7410 Fast Reactor Physics, Summary of Noise Measurement Techniques.

50. R. W. Albrecht and R.A. Danofsky, "Analytical-Experimental Correlations in Space-Dependent Coherences", Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 12, pp. 708

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS

More or Less Noise Related

1. M.S. Bartlett, Stochastic Processes, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, pp. 53, 87 (1966)

2. Davenport, W. B. Jr., and W. L. Root, An Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York (1958) .

3. Schultz, M. A., Control of Nuclear Reactors and Power Plants, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York (1961).

4. Thie, J. A., Reactor Noise, AEC Monograph, Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., New York (1963).

5. RE. Uhrig, Random Noise Techniques in Nuclear Reactor Systems, The Roland Press Company, New York, 1970.

6. Wax, Nelson, Editor, Noise and Stochastic Processes, Dover Publications, Inc., New York (1954).

7. ANL5800, Reactor Physics Constants, 2nd Ed. (1963), Section 3.3.1.3, pp. 110.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS

More or Less Nuclear Related

1. Carslaw, H. S. and J. C. Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, Oxford Press, London (1959). pp 373.

2. Erdelyi, Arthur, Higher Transcendental Functions, Vol. II, McGrawill Book Co., Inc., New York (1953). pp. 134-5.

3. Foster. Ronald M. and G. A. Campbell, Fourier Integrals for Practical Applications, D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., New York (1948).

4. Grobner, Wolfgang and Nikolaus Hofreiter, Integraltafel Parts I and II, Wien Urd Innsbruch Springer (1957).

5. Hildebrand, F. B., Methods of Applied Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York (195Z). pp. 13.

6. Korn, Granino A. and Theresa M. Korn, Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York (1961).

7. Meghreblian, Robert V. and David K. Holmes, Reactor Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York (1960).

8. Peirce, B. O. and Ronald M. Foster, A Short Table of Integrals, Ginn and Company, New York (1956).

9. Walter, Alan E., America the Powerless - Facing our Nuclear Energy Dilemma, Cogito Books, Madison, Wisconsin (1995).

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