Field-theoretic approach to neutron noise in nuclear reactors.

An operating nuclear reactor is designed to maintain a sustained fission chain reaction in its core, which results from a delicate balance between neutron creations (i.e., fissions) and total absorptions.

Percolation properties of the neutron population in nuclear reactors.

Reactor physics aims at studying the neutron population in a reactor core under the influence of feedback mechanisms, such as the Doppler temperature effect. Numerical schemes to calculate macroscopic properties emerging from such coupled stochastic systems, however, require us to define intermediate quantities (e.g.