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Description
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:
- 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.
- Recommend solutions to the identified nuclear data needs.
- 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:
- Nuclear Data for Reactor Source Term Calculations
- Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations
- Nuclear Data for Detector Response Calculations
The objective of each session is to obtain community consensus of nuclear data needs and recommended solutions.
Participants
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Plenary Session
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Welcome/Logistics 10mSpeaker: Dr CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)
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Nuclear Physics Overview 20mSpeaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics)
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Nuclear Data Program and Antineutrinos 15mSpeaker: Keith Jankowski (DOE Office of Science)
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DNN R&D Perspective 15mSpeaker: Donald Hornback
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DNN R&D Safeguards Perspective 15mSpeaker: Christopher Ramos (DOE/NNSA/DNN)
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WoNDRAM Motivation and Goals & NDWG 15mSpeaker: CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)
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Q&A 30mSpeakers: Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL), CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)
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Plenary Session
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Current/Future Reactor Experiments 20mSpeaker: J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux (University of California at Irvine)
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Outcome of the 2019 IAEA Technical Meeting 20mSpeaker: Paraskevi Dimitriou (International Atomic Energy Agency)
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Nuclear Data Pipeline 25mSpeaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Relevant Nuclear Databases 15mSpeaker: Ryan Lorek (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Discussion and Expectations for Topical Sessions 25mSpeaker: CATHERINE ROMANO (IB3 Global Solutions)
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Nuclear Data for the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term
Session Chairs
- Andrew Conant
- Catherine Riddle
- William WieselquistThe 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.
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Session Overview 20mSpeaker: Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Overview of Fission Yield Evaluations 20mSpeaker: Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Non-Equilibrium Corrections and MURE Code 20mSpeaker: Muriel Fallot (Subatech)
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Antineutrino Data: Reactor Operational Data Uncertainties 20mSpeaker: Anna Erickson (Georgia Tech)
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SCALE Sensitivity to Fission Products 20mSpeaker: Steve Skutnik (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Modeling of Neutrino Production and Spectra From a Magnox Reactor 20mSpeaker: Robert Mills (UK National Nuclear Laboratory)
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Nuclear Data for the Reactor Antineutrino Source Term
Session Chairs
- Andrew Conant
- Catherine Riddle
- William WieselquistThe 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.
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Advanced Reactor Instrumentation at NRIC 20mSpeaker: Nick Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Discussion 1h 25m
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Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations Session
Session Chairs:
- Bryce Littlejohn
- Pat Huber
- Shikha Prasad
- Alejandro SonzogniAntineutrinos 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.
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Introduction 5m
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Spectra of Antineutrinos from Nuclear Reactors 15mSpeaker: Anna Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Big Picture: Case Study of Diversion and Limits of AntineutrinoSafeguards Technology 15mSpeaker: Anna Erickson (Georgia Tech)
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Antineutrino Spectrum Predictions: Nuclear Data Impact and Interplay 15mSpeaker: Andrea Mattera (BNL)
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Big Picture: High Energy Physics 15mSpeaker: J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux (University of California at Irvine)
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Direct Source Term Measurement: Existing Data 15mSpeaker: Thomas Langford (Yale University)
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Direct Source Term Measurement: Future Data 20mSpeaker: Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Yale University)
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Direct Source Term Measurement: Non-IBD Reactions 15mSpeaker: Rupak Mahapatra
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Nuclear Data for Antineutrino Spectrum Calculations Session
Session Chairs:
- Bryce Littlejohn
- Pat Huber
- Shikha Prasad
- Alejandro SonzogniAntineutrinos 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.
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Towards Integral Electron Measurements of 233,235U and 239,241Pu at HFIR Decay Station 10mSpeaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL Physics Division)
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Scattering Beamlines and Irradiation Positions at the High Flux Isotope Reactor 10mSpeaker: Lowell Crow
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Magnetic electron spectrometer for characterising anti-neutrino anomaly 10mSpeaker: Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)
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Concepts for Integral Electron Measurements of 233,235U and 239,241Pu at HFIR 10mSpeaker: Mitch Allmond (ORNL)
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Discussion 20m
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Beta Feeding Measurements 15mSpeaker: Guy Savard (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Nuclear Data for the Antineutrino Detector Response Session
Session Chairs
- Bethany Goldblum
- Nathaniel Bowden
- Jon Link
- Pieter MummAdvances 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.
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Introduction 15mSpeaker: Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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IBD: Background (Above Ground) 15mSpeaker: Michael Mendenhall (LLNL)
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IBD: Background (Below Ground) 15mSpeaker: Marc Bergevin (LLNL)
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Electron Scattering: Signal & Background 15mSpeaker: Michael Smy (UCI School of Physical Sciences)
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Nuclear Data for the Antineutrino Detector Response Session
Session Chairs
- Bethany Goldblum
- Nathaniel Bowden
- Jon Link
- Pieter MummAdvances 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.
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Quenching Factors for Organic Scintillators 15mSpeaker: Thibault Laplace (University of California Berkeley)
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Transport Modelling 15mSpeaker: Alireza Haghighat (Virginia Tech)
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Discussion Session 1h 30mSpeaker: Bethany Goldblum (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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Session Summaries & Discussion
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