Name: Mini-CSEWG 2023
Start: 2023-04-25T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-04-27T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Livermore Valley Open Campus

Mini-CSEWG 2023

from Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, April 27, 2023 (6:00 PM)

Monday, April 24, 2023
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory) Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

9:10 AM Clarification of ENDF sum rules (#145) - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:20 AM Correct a minor omission in File 4 (#141) - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Thermal neutron capture primary gamma-rays: Issue and repair - Emanuel Chimanski (BNL) Ian Thompson (LLNL)

9:40 AM Ability to use MT=900-999 for primary gammas (#139) - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

9:50 AM Clarification for collapsing of probability matrices (#143) - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

10:00 AM LTY=0 matrices options clarification (#142) - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

10:10 AM Format Proposal for Isotopic Distribution in TSL Files for ENDF/B-VIII.1 (#144) - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:40 AM FUDGE - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

11:00 AM NJOY - Wim Haeck (LANL)

11:20 AM AMPX - Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

11:40 AM General discussion: How to use the new TSL data effectively in user code - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Timeline Discussions - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

2:00 PM ADVANCE Discussion - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:15 PM Automated updates to masses, Q-values, thresholds and electrons - Bret Beck (LLNL)

2:30 PM Exit distributions - Hye Young Lee (LANL) Ian Thompson (LLNL)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory) Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

9:10 AM Validation of Nuclear Data Files from the Third Preliminary Release of ENDF/B-VIII.1 - Noah Kleedtke (LANL)

9:50 AM Validating ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 with LLNL pulsed-sphere neutron-leakage spectra - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

10:00 AM NNL Testing of ENDF/B-VIII.1(beta1) - Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)

10:55 AM Initial Assessment of ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 with VALID Criticality Benchmarks - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:15 AM AWE Fast Crit Testing of beta1 - Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)

11:30 AM LLNL MERCURY ENDF/B-VIII.1(β1) testing results using GNDS processed by FUDGE - Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)

11:45 AM Recent experimental benchmark results for TEX-Pu for TSL testing - Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM E8R1 beta1 testing in Studsvik’s CASMO5 lattice physics code - Rodolfo Ferrer (Studsvik Scandpower)

1:45 PM Evaluation of the Pool Critical Assembly (PCA) Benchmark with ENDF/B-VIII.1beta1 using MCNP6 - Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)

2:05 PM Open Discussion
Thursday, April 27, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory) Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division) Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

9:10 AM Evaluation observations - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

9:25 AM Ongoing 239Pu resonance work for beta2 consideration - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

9:40 AM Updates on 9Be and 6Li for beta2 consideration - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

9:55 AM Updates on 238U for beta2 consideration and comments on other isotopes - Fl, Cu, Ni, 16O, TSL - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

10:25 AM On integral benchmarks for resolving TSL conflicts for ENDF/B-VIII.1 release - Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)

10:55 AM Updates on 236U for beta2 consideration - Ionel Stetcu (Los Alamos National Lab)

11:10 AM Capture spectra - Amanda Lewis (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)

11:25 AM Prospectus: consistent evaluation of Pt isotopes - Mike Herman (LANL)

11:40 AM Photonuclear cross section comparisons for beta2 - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM MF=34 format and O-16 covariance testing - Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

1:50 PM Pu-9, U-5, U-8 - Kent Parsons (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:05 PM Covariance ADVANCE testing - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:20 PM Covariance LLNL testing - Robert Casperson (LLNL)

2:30 PM Covariance Testing Progress for ENDF/B-VIII.1β1 at ORNL - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:55 PM Covariance processing from ORNL + Ta-181 - Jesse Brown (ORNL) Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)

3:35 PM Covariance testing and Update on 239Pu and 235U PFNS covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division) Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Patrick Talou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:55 PM Full Energy Covariance Generation of Pb-208 - Peter Brain (RPI)

4:10 PM Pu-9, U-5, U-3 RRR covariances - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

4:25 PM n+239Pu covariance evaluation at LLNL - Konstantinos Kravvaris Kyle Wendt (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

4:35 PM INDEN Covariances - Andrej Trkov (Jozef Stefan Institute)

4:45 PM Pu-9(n,f) cross section covariances - Georg Schnabel (IAEA)

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