Abstract: | Pulsed neutron experiments in beryllium have been analyzed by the method of inelastic scattering expansion. Considering the full range of energy, the present method is applied to the calculation of the time dependent spectra within a system as well as at its surface. For obtaining the decay curve of the neutron counting rate, the neutrons are classified according to the number of specified inelastic scatterings that scatter the neutrons over the Bragg cutoff energy. The pseudo mode is, as a principal result, shown to correspond to an eigen solution of the thermal bounded equation. The buckling dependence of the eigenvalue and the eigen spectrum of the thermal bounded equation are studied, and useful approximate expressions are derived. The calculated results are compared with the experiments by Fullwood et al. and other authors. |