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A STUDY of the range distribution of particles produced by slow neutron disintegrations of gas nuclei in a cloud chamber offers especially favourable conditions for determining the straggling coefficient since, in such circumstances, the difficulty of producing a source of homogeneous particles is avoided.
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BØGGILD, J. Cloud Chamber Investigation of Straggling of Short-Range Particles Produced by Slow Neutron Reactions. Nature 161, 810–811 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161810a0
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