Mini-CSEWG 2023
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Livermore Valley Open Campus
Livermore Valley Open Campus
Brown David
(NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory),
Gustavo Nobre
(BNL)
Description

Participants
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Formats & Processing
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9:00 AM
Welcome 10mSpeakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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9:10 AM
Clarification of ENDF sum rules (#145) 10mSpeaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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9:20 AM
Correct a minor omission in File 4 (#141) 10mSpeaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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9:30 AM
Thermal neutron capture primary gamma-rays: Issue and repair 10mSpeakers: Emanuel Chimanski (BNL), Ian Thompson (LLNL)
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9:40 AM
Ability to use MT=900-999 for primary gammas (#139) 10mSpeaker: Ian Thompson (LLNL)
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9:50 AM
Clarification for collapsing of probability matrices (#143) 10mSpeaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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10:00 AM
LTY=0 matrices options clarification (#142) 10mSpeaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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10:10 AM
Format Proposal for Isotopic Distribution in TSL Files for ENDF/B-VIII.1 (#144) 10mSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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10:20 AM
Break 20m
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11:00 AM
NJOY 20mSpeaker: Wim Haeck (LANL)
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11:20 AM
AMPX 20mSpeaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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11:40 AM
General discussion: How to use the new TSL data effectively in user code 20mSpeaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
Lunch 1h 30m
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1:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Release Discussion
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1:30 PM
Timeline Discussions 30mSpeaker: Gustavo Nobre (BNL)
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2:00 PM
ADVANCE Discussion 15mSpeaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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2:15 PM
Automated updates to masses, Q-values, thresholds and electrons 15mSpeaker: Bret Beck (LLNL)
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2:30 PM
Exit distributions 15mSpeakers: Hye Young Lee (LANL), Ian Thompson (LLNL)
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1:30 PM
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3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
CSEWG Executive Committee Meeting
AGENDA
- refine paper timeline
- lay down rules for Big Paper authorship & author ordering
- set up time for discussing TSL conflicts
- Any Other Business
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
Validation I
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9:00 AM
Welcome 10mSpeakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
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9:10 AM
Validation of Nuclear Data Files from the Third Preliminary Release of ENDF/B-VIII.1 40mSpeaker: Noah Kleedtke (LANL)
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9:50 AM
Validating ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 with LLNL pulsed-sphere neutron-leakage spectra 10mSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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10:00 AM
NNL Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.1(beta1) 30mSpeaker: Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)
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10:30 AM
Break 25m
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10:55 AM
Initial Assessment of ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 with VALID Criticality Benchmarks 20mSpeaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- 11:15 AM
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11:30 AM
LLNL MERCURY ENDF/B-VIII.1(β1) testing results using GNDS processed by FUDGE 15mSpeaker: Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
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11:45 AM
Recent experimental benchmark results for TEX-Pu for TSL testing 15mSpeaker: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
Lunch 1h 30m
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1:30 PM
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4:30 PM
Validation II
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1:30 PM
E8R1 beta1 testing in Studsvik’s CASMO5 lattice physics code 15mSpeaker: Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower)
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1:45 PM
Evaluation of the Pool Critical Assembly (PCA) Benchmark with ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 using MCNP6 20mSpeaker: Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)
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2:05 PM
Open Discussion 1h
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1:30 PM
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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12:00 PM
Evaluations
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9:00 AM
Welcome 10mSpeakers: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division), Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
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9:10 AM
Evaluation observations 15mSpeaker: Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
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9:25 AM
Ongoing 239Pu resonance work for beta2 consideration 15mSpeaker: Marco Pigni (ORNL)
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9:40 AM
Updates on 9Be and 6Li for beta2 consideration 15mSpeaker: Mark Paris (LANL T-2)
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9:55 AM
Updates on 238U for beta2 consideration and comments on other isotopes - Fl, Cu, Ni, 16O, TSL 30mSpeaker: Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)
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10:25 AM
On integral benchmarks for resolving TSL conflicts for ENDF/B-VIII.1 release 25mSpeaker: Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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10:50 AM
Break 5m
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10:55 AM
Updates on 236U for beta2 consideration 15mSpeaker: Ionel Stetcu (Los Alamos National Lab)
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11:10 AM
Capture spectra 15mSpeaker: Amanda Lewis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
- 11:25 AM
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11:40 AM
Photonuclear cross section comparisons for beta2 20mSpeaker: Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
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9:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
Lunch 1h 30m
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1:30 PM
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4:50 PM
Covariances
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1:30 PM
MF=34 format and O-16 covariance testing 20mSpeaker: Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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2:05 PM
Covariance ADVANCE testing 15mSpeaker: Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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2:30 PM
Covariance Testing Progress for ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 at ORNL 25mSpeaker: William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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2:55 PM
Covariance processing from ORNL + Ta-181 20mSpeakers: Jesse Brown (ORNL), Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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3:15 PM
Break 20m
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3:35 PM
Covariance testing and Update on 239Pu and 235U PFNS covariances 20mSpeakers: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division), Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Patrick Talou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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3:55 PM
Full Energy Covariance Generation of Pb-208 15mSpeaker: Peter Brain (RPI)
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4:10 PM
Pu-9, U-5, U-3 RRR covariances 15mSpeaker: Marco Pigni (ORNL)
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4:25 PM
n+239Pu covariance evaluation at LLNL 10mSpeakers: Konstantinos Kravvaris, Kyle Wendt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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4:45 PM
Pu-9(n,f) cross section covariances 5mSpeaker: Georg Schnabel (IAEA)
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1:30 PM
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9:00 AM
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