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Pulse Shape Discrimination of Neutrons and Gamma Rays Using Kohonen Artificial Neural Networks

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research
Volume 3 (2013): Issue 2 (April 2013)
By: Tatiana Tambouratzis,  Dina Chernikova and  Imre Pzsit  
Open Access
|Dec 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2014-0006
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