escape probability

escape probability

[ə′skāp ‚präb·ə‚bil·əd·ē]
(nucleonics)
The proportion of neutrons produced in a reactor which eventually leaves the reactor without being absorbed.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The optimal escape probability occurs at 27 days for nonworkers and 209 days (about seven months) for those who take a transitional job.
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Note that this model is still consistent with notified workers having a higher probability of avoiding unemployment, since this probability consists of the escape probability at t = 0 plus the accumulated escape over the pre-displacement interval [-k, 0].
A puzzling aspect of the effect of advance notice of unemployment
k [approximately equal to] 2Nu x " Escape probability" x 1/K.
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