Dispersion of the neutron emission in U-
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R.P. Feynman; F. De Hoffmann; R. Serber
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1956
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Elsevier Science
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The neutron-intensity fluctuations of the original Los Alamos Water Boiler (LOPO) were used to measure the dispersion in Y, the number of neutrons per fission. The result obtained was 5 = 7.8 f 0.6 for U-235 thermal fission.