A beam of 2-MeV neutrons is incident on a slab of heavy water (D2O). The total cross-sections of deuterium and oxygen are 2.6b and 1.6b respectively.
a) what is the macroscopic total cross section of D2O at 2 MeV?
b) how this must the slab be to reduce the intensity of the uncolided beam by a factor of 10?
c) if an incident neutron has a collision in the slab, wha tis the relative probability that it colides with deuterium?