Imre Pázsit has been working with the theory and application of stochastic particle processes for several decades both at an academic level and with concrete applications to existing power plants in Sweden and elsewhere. He is internationally recognised for his contributions in reactor diagnostics with neutron noise methods. He is also a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Lénárd Pál is professor and scientific adviser of KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as a Member of the Leibniz Sozietät. He is the author of Fundamentals of Probability Theory and Statistics (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995) and Neutron Fluctuations: A Treatise on the Physics of Branching Processes (Elsevier, 2008)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsContentsList of most frequently used notationsPart I. Physics of Branching Processes1. Basic Notions2. Generalisation of the Problem3. Injections of Particles4. Special Probabilities5. Other Characteristic Probabilities6. Branching Processes in a Randomly Varying Medium7. One-Dimensional Branching ProcessPart II. Neutron Fluctuations8. Neutron Fluctuations in the Phase Space: The Pál-Bell Equation9. Reactivity Measurement Methods in Traditional Systems10. Reactivity Measurements in Accelerator Driven Systems11. Theory of Multiplicity in Nuclear SafeguardsAppendicesA. Elements of the Theory of Generating FunctionsB. Supplement to the Survival ProbabilityBibliographyIndex