Energy-Dependent, Self-Adaptive Mesh h(p)-Refinement of an Interior-Penalty Scheme for a Discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis Spatial Discretization of the Multi-Group Neutron Diffusion Equation with Dual-Weighted Residual Error Measures

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