Theoretical analysis of 2n accidentals rates

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Introduction

Every individual pulse of photons may cause any number of neutron-producing reactions, hereafter denoted by [math]n[/math], ranging form zero to "infinity". [math]n[/math], being the number of neutron-producing reactions actually occurring per pulse, is assumed to follow the Poissonian distribution as a limiting case of the binomial distribution. Each neutron-producing interaction produces [math]v_{i}[/math] neutrons, where [math]v_{i}[/math] is the distribution of the number of neutrons produced from a single given neutron-producing reaction. For our purposes, [math]v_{i}[/math] is a combination of the 1n-knockout cross-section and the photo-fission multiplicity distribution.