2021 Nuclear Data for Reactor Antineutrino Measurements Workshop

21 Jun 2021, 11:00 → 24 Jun 2021, 17:00 US/Eastern

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WoNDRAM is a “mini” workshop organized by the Nuclear Data Working Group (https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/ndwg/) to address the impact of nuclear data on reactor antineutrino measurements.

The goals of the workshop are:

1. Identify nuclear data needs for the reactor source term, the antineutrino spectrum calculation and the detector response that impact the fundamental research and applications of reactor antineutrino measurement systems.
2. Recommend solutions to the identified nuclear data needs.
3. Bring together the various communities involved in reactor antineutrino measurements along with the nuclear data community to enhance communication and understanding.

The workshop consists of a plenary and three topical discussion sessions:

1. Nuclear Data for Reactor Source Term Calculations
2. Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations
3. Nuclear Data for Detector Response Calculations

The objective of each session is to obtain community consensus of nuclear data needs and recommended solutions. 

Monday, 21 June

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary Session

11:00 Welcome/Logistics

Speaker: Dr CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)

11:10 Nuclear Physics Overview

Speaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics)

Hallman_WNDRAM_06212021.pptx

11:30 Nuclear Data Program and Antineutrinos

Speaker: Keith Jankowski (DOE Office of Science)

USNDP for Antineutrino 20210621.pptx

11:45 DNN R&D Perspective

Speaker: Donald Hornback

12:00 DNN R&D Safeguards Perspective

Speaker: Christopher Ramos (DOE/NNSA/DNN)

12:15 WoNDRAM Motivation and Goals & NDWG

Speaker: CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)

WoNDRAM Plenary - Romano.pptx

12:30 Q&A

Speakers: Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL), CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)

13:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 16:00 Plenary Session

13:15 Reactor Antineutrino 101

Speaker: Rachel Carr (MIT)

WoNDRAM_Carr.pdf

13:35 History of Reactor Experiments

Speaker: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

WonDRAM_Huber.pdf

13:55 Current/Future Reactor Experiments

Speaker: J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux (University of California at Irvine)

WoNDRAM_Plenary_Ochoa_June2021.pdf

14:15 Outcome of the 2019 IAEA Technical Meeting

Speaker: Paraskevi Dimitriou (International Atomic Energy Agency)

Dimitriou-WoNDRAM2021.pdf

14:35 Nuclear Data Pipeline

Speaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

NDPipeline-dbrown.pptx

15:00 Current Decay Experiments

Speaker: Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

decay_data.pptx

15:20 Relevant Nuclear Databases

Speaker: Ryan Lorek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

WoNDRAM 21 June 2021 - Ryan Lorek.pdf

15:35 Discussion and Expectations for Topical Sessions

Speaker: CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)

Tuesday, 22 June

11:00 → 13:00 Nuclear Data for the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term

Session Chairs
- Andrew Conant
- Catherine Riddle
- William Wieselquist

The goal of the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term session is to focus nuclear data needs for nuclear reactor modeling & simulation, operation, and applications that directly impact the simulated reactor antineutrino source term. The session covers nuclear data uncertainties through the fission process and other in-reactor nuclear reactions. Additionally, the impact of uncertainties in reactor operations will be addressed. Examples of topics to be covered include: fission yields, non-fuel effects, advanced reactors and spent fuel storage. Nuclear data needs will be identified along with proposed solutions and recommended improvements in modeling & simulation capabilities to support reactor antineutrino measurements.

11:00 Session Overview

Speaker: Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

WONDRAM_Reactor_Antineutrino_Source_Term_2021-06-22.pdf

11:20 Overview of Fission Yield Evaluations

Speaker: Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

WoNDRAM_Lovell.pdf

11:40 Non-Equilibrium Corrections and MURE Code

Speaker: Muriel Fallot (Subatech)

TalkWONDRAM2021-v2.pdf

12:00 Antineutrino Data: Reactor Operational Data Uncertainties

Speaker: Anna Erickson (Georgia Tech)

WoDRAM_Reactor Operational Data Uncertainties.pdf

12:20 SCALE Sensitivity to Fission Products

Speaker: Steve Skutnik (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2021-WoNDRAM-SCALE-Sensitivity-Uncertainty-rev3.pptx

12:40 Modeling of Neutrino Production and Spectra From a Magnox Reactor

Speaker: Robert Mills (UK National Nuclear Laboratory)

01- WoNDRAM 22 June 2021 - Mills.pptx

13:00 → 13:15 Break

13:15 → 15:00 Nuclear Data for the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term

Session Chairs
- Andrew Conant
- Catherine Riddle
- William Wieselquist

The goal of the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term session is to focus nuclear data needs for nuclear reactor modeling & simulation, operation, and applications that directly impact the simulated reactor antineutrino source term. The session covers nuclear data uncertainties through the fission process and other in-reactor nuclear reactions. Additionally, the impact of uncertainties in reactor operations will be addressed. Examples of topics to be covered include: fission yields, non-fuel effects, advanced reactors and spent fuel storage. Nuclear data needs will be identified along with proposed solutions and recommended improvements in modeling & simulation capabilities to support reactor antineutrino measurements.

13:15 Advanced Reactor Instrumentation at NRIC

Speaker: Nick Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)

13:35 Discussion

Wednesday, 23 June

11:00 → 12:55 Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations Session

Session Chairs:
- Bryce Littlejohn
- Pat Huber
- Shikha Prasad
- Alejandro Sonzogni

Antineutrinos produced by nuclear reactors are potentially useful for non-proliferation and reactor monitoring applications, for validating other existing and future datasets in the nuclear data pipeline, and for performing fundamental particle physics measurements. These three spheres of application rely to varying degrees on an accurate and precise understanding of the true aggregate antineutrino energy spectrum emitted by each primary fission isotope. The goals of this session are to identify future experimental, theory and software improvements that can expand understanding of directly-measured and indirectly-predicted antineutrino spectra, and to define the extent to which each of these improvements will benefit the three spheres of application described above.

11:00 Introduction

WoNDRAM_Day3.pdf

11:05 Spectra of Antineutrinos from Nuclear Reactors

Speaker: Anna Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Hayes-ND-2021.pdf

11:20 Big Picture: Case Study of Diversion and Limits of AntineutrinoSafeguards Technology

Speaker: Anna Erickson (Georgia Tech)

WoDRAM_Case Study of Diversion and Limits of Antineutrino Safeguards Technology.pdf

11:35 Antineutrino Spectrum Predictions: Nuclear Data Impact and Interplay

Speaker: Andrea Mattera (BNL)

Mattera_antineutrino-workshop-June2021.pdf

11:50 Big Picture: High Energy Physics

Speaker: J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux (University of California at Irvine)

WoNDRAM_SnowmassFeedback_Ochoa_June2021.pdf

12:05 Direct Source Term Measurement: Existing Data

Speaker: Thomas Langford (Yale University)

210623-WoNDRAM-Langford.pdf

12:20 Direct Source Term Measurement: Future Data

Speaker: Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Yale University)

Wondram_Surukuchi.pdf

12:40 Direct Source Term Measurement: Non-IBD Reactions

Speaker: Rupak Mahapatra

Reactor_CENNS_Mahapatra.pptx

12:55 → 13:05 Break

13:05 → 15:00 Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations Session

Session Chairs:
- Bryce Littlejohn
- Pat Huber
- Shikha Prasad
- Alejandro Sonzogni

Antineutrinos produced by nuclear reactors are potentially useful for non-proliferation and reactor monitoring applications, for validating other existing and future datasets in the nuclear data pipeline, and for performing fundamental particle physics measurements. These three spheres of application rely to varying degrees on an accurate and precise understanding of the true aggregate antineutrino energy spectrum emitted by each primary fission isotope. The goals of this session are to identify future experimental, theory and software improvements that can expand understanding of directly-measured and indirectly-predicted antineutrino spectra, and to define the extent to which each of these improvements will benefit the three spheres of application described above.

13:05 Recent measurements of fission beta spectra ratios

Speaker: P. Mumm (NIST)

WonDRAM2021_mumm.pdf

13:20 Towards Integral Electron Measurements of 233,235U and 239,241Pu at HFIR Decay Station

Speaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL Physics Division)

KR_final_WoNDRAM.pdf

13:30 Scattering Beamlines and Irradiation Positions at the High Flux Isotope Reactor

Speaker: Lowell Crow

Crow_HFIR_June23_21.pdf

13:40 Magnetic electron spectrometer for characterising anti-neutrino anomaly

Speaker: Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)

2021AntineutrinoWS_Kibedi.pdf

13:50 Concepts for Integral Electron Measurements of 233,235U and 239,241Pu at HFIR

Speaker: Mitch Allmond (ORNL)

Allmond-Uelec.pdf

14:00 Discussion

14:20 Measuring Beta Spectra For Forbidden Decays

Speaker: Charlie Rasco

BCR_WoNDRAM_2021_Final.pdf

14:35 Beta Feeding Measurements

Speaker: Guy Savard (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:50 Software Tools for Modelling Neutrino Source Terms

Speaker: Xianyi Zhang

Conflux_WONDRAM.pdf

Thursday, 24 June

11:00 → 12:45 Nuclear Data for the Antineutrino Detector Response Session

Session Chairs
- Bethany Goldblum
- Nathaniel Bowden
- Jon Link
- Pieter Mumm

Advances in detector modeling capabilities would further the development of basic and applied antineutrino physics technologies. This session focuses on identifying and prioritizing nuclear data needs that impact the ability to model antineutrino detector performance in the reactor energy range—important for detector design, development, and data interpretation. This includes data deficiencies for modeling both neutrino signal and background for a wide range of detection techniques such as CEvNS, electron elastic scattering, and inverse beta decay.

11:00 Introduction

Speaker: Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Detector_Response_Intro.pdf

11:15 CEvNS: Signal

Speaker: Phil Barbeau (Duke University)

Barbeau_Wondram.pdf

11:30 CEvNS: Background

Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

wondram-scholberg.pdf

11:45 IBD: Signal

Speaker: Timothy Classen (LLNL)

WoNDRAM_IBD_Signal_062421.pdf

12:00 IBD: Background (Above Ground)

Speaker: Michael Mendenhall (LLNL)

Mendenhall_WoNDRAM_Surface_Backgrounds.pdf

12:15 IBD: Background (Below Ground)

Speaker: Marc Bergevin (LLNL)

Bergevin-UndergroundBackgrounds.pdf

12:30 Electron Scattering: Signal & Background

Speaker: Michael Smy (UCI School of Physical Sciences)

smy_wondram21.pdf

12:45 → 13:00 Break

13:00 → 15:00 Nuclear Data for the Antineutrino Detector Response Session

Session Chairs
- Bethany Goldblum
- Nathaniel Bowden
- Jon Link
- Pieter Mumm

Advances in detector modeling capabilities would further the development of basic and applied antineutrino physics technologies. This session focuses on identifying and prioritizing nuclear data needs that impact the ability to model antineutrino detector performance in the reactor energy range—important for detector design, development, and data interpretation. This includes data deficiencies for modeling both neutrino signal and background for a wide range of detection techniques such as CEvNS, electron elastic scattering, and inverse beta decay.

13:00 Quenching Factors for Organic Scintillators

Speaker: Thibault Laplace (University of California Berkeley)

WONDRAM_QuenchingFactorsForOrganicScintillators.pptx

13:15 Transport Modelling

Speaker: Alireza Haghighat (Virginia Tech)

Haghighat-WoNDRAM-workshop-2021.pdf

Haghighat-WoNDRAM-workshop-2021.pptx

13:30 Discussion Session

Speaker: Bethany Goldblum (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:00 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 17:00 Session Summaries & Discussion