TRANSPORT CALCULATION OF THE NEUTRON MULTIPLICITY MOMENTS WITH ENERGY DEPENDENCE
In recent work we have developed a general one-speed transport theory model for the calculation of the multiplicity moments, used in nuclear safeguards. Quantitative results were obtained for spheres, cylinders of various shapes, and shells. In all these works, similarly to the point model, the only neutron reaction was assumed to be fission. Since the quantitative results for highly multiplicative systems were not in agreement with recent experiments, we extended the model to include isotropic elastic scattering without energy loss of the neutrons. In the present work, we generalise the model further, to include inelastic scattering, which requires the introduction of energy dependence and anisotropic scattering. In the paper, the significance of the elastic scattering, as well as the need for including inelastic scattering is demonstrated, and the extension to energy dependent transport theory is described and illustrated with one example.