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Nassar H. S. Haidar^*

Center for Research in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Arts, Sciences and Technology University in Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon

^*Corresponding author. E-mail address: nhaidar@suffolk.edu

Abstract: This communication reports on a demonstration that a dynamical neutron beam is superior, in penetrating the surface of a (B/Gd)-loaded cancerous region, to a stationary neutron beam of the same intensity. The reported analysis of this complex problem is based on a one-group neutron diffusion theory with a periodic external neutron beam source in a one-dimensional geometry.

Keywords: neutron diffusion, dynamical neutron source, cancer therapy.

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