Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8067648 Annals of Nuclear Energy 2016 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
We show analytical results for the skewness of the distribution of counts of a detector inside a nuclear reactor. Like in the α-Feynman experiment, the departure of the skewness with respect to its Poisson value depends only on the correlation between counts and the detector efficiency and not on the source intensity, in addition its sensitivity to the correlation is larger. Therefore,without any extra experimental effort, the usual α-Feynman experiment can be improved with the analysis of the third moments.
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