A Mathematical Realization of Entropy through Neutron Slowing Down

The slowing down equation for elastic scattering of neutrons in an infinite homogeneous medium is solved analytically by decomposing the neutron energy spectrum into collision intervals. Since scattering physically smooths energy distributions by redistributing neutron energy uniformly, it is inform...

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Autores principales: Ganapol, Barry, Mostacci, Domiziano, Molinari, Vincenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7512748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265324
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20040233
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description The slowing down equation for elastic scattering of neutrons in an infinite homogeneous medium is solved analytically by decomposing the neutron energy spectrum into collision intervals. Since scattering physically smooths energy distributions by redistributing neutron energy uniformly, it is informative to observe how mathematics accommodates the scattering process, which increases entropy through disorder.
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spelling pubmed-75127482020-11-09 A Mathematical Realization of Entropy through Neutron Slowing Down Ganapol, Barry Mostacci, Domiziano Molinari, Vincenzo Entropy (Basel) Article The slowing down equation for elastic scattering of neutrons in an infinite homogeneous medium is solved analytically by decomposing the neutron energy spectrum into collision intervals. Since scattering physically smooths energy distributions by redistributing neutron energy uniformly, it is informative to observe how mathematics accommodates the scattering process, which increases entropy through disorder. MDPI 2018-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7512748/ /pubmed/33265324 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20040233 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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