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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

Methods of observation of the centrifugal quantum states of neutrons

R. Cubitt, Валерий Викторович Несвижевский, Alexander K. Petukhov, Alexei Yu. Voronin, G. Pignol, Konstantin V. Protasov, P. Gurshijants

Published Aug 7, 2009• 11 citations
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10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.081

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