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Spectral Unfolding: A Mathematical Perspective

Modern Neutron Detection. Proceedings of a Technical Meeting, 2020

Authors:   Koslowsky M.
Journal: Modern Neutron Detection. Proceedings of a Technical Meeting
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE-1935_web.pdf
Abstract: Given a set of measurements from a set of one or more neutron detectors, the ability to determine the energy spectrum of the incident radiation field is of great value for a number of applications. We address the problem of calculating this spectrum, known as spectral unfolding. Several different methods of spectral unfolding are considered, including maximum likelihood estimation, maximum a posteriori probability, and maximum entropy, as well as a handful of other methods.