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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">cndcgs</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2538-8959</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2669-2023</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">61_MAZANKOVA</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47459/cndcgs.2026.61</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Experimental Measurement of Neutron Flux and Its Mathematical Data Processing</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>MAZANKOVA</surname>
            <given-names>Vera</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:vera.mazankova@unob.cz">vera.mazankova@unob.cz</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_000">Department of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>TOROKOVA</surname>
            <given-names>Lucie</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_001">Department of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>TRUNEC</surname>
            <given-names>David</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_002">Department of Plasma Physics and Technology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>KOPECKY</surname>
            <given-names>Zdenek</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_003">VF, a.s., Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>MATEJ</surname>
            <given-names>Zdenek</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_004"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_004">Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>2026</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>533</fpage>
      <lpage>538</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>09</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>This paper presents experimental measurement of neutron flux from an AmBe source using a stilbene organic scintillator and subsequent mathematical processing of the measured data. The neutron energy spectrum was reconstructed by solving a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind using maximum likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) and a novel B-spline-based MLEM-BS method with regularization. Bootstrap resampling was applied to estimate confidence intervals. Results demonstrate successful neutron spectrum unfolding, reduced noise sensitivity of the spline approach, and good agreement of the reconstructed spectrum with the ISO reference standard.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>neutron spectroscopy</kwd>
        <kwd>deconvolution</kwd>
        <kwd>AmBe source</kwd>
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