The technique and results of measurements performed of the neutron spectrum behind the top shielding of the U-70 experimental hall using a Bonner spectrometer based on indium and carbon activation detectors are presented. The integral characteristics of the neutron field are presented; such a field could be useful in various areas of dosimetry, radiation physics, and radiobiology, in assuring radiological safety during flights in airplanes and in space, as well as in the study of malfunctions induced in microelectronics by high-energy neutrons.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 159–165, September, 2009.
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Krupnyi, G.I., Peleshko, V.N., Rastsvetalov, Y.N. et al. High-energy neutron-radiation reference field. At Energy 107, 202–208 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-010-9217-z
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