Nuclear Data Week 2024 (CSEWG-NDAG)
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US/Eastern
Berkner Hall
Berkner Hall
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
USA
Catherine-Anne Dunn,
David Brown
(NNDC-BNL),
Elizabeth McCutchan
(BNL),
Gustavo Nobre
(BNL)
Description
The November 2024 Cross Section Evaluation Working Group meeting will happen during Election Week 2024!
- NCSP NDAG - Monday AM
- WANDA 2025 Planning - Monday PM
- CSEWG - Tuesday - Thursday all day
Non-U.S. citizens must complete an additional Brookhaven Lab Guest Form and be approved in the Guest Information System (GIS) if they would like to attend this meeting. This applies to both in-person and remote attendees!
For in-person events, it is advisable not to make travel arrangements until you are approved in the Guest Information System.
If you have a current Brookhaven Lab guest appointment and a valid BNL Guest Number or you have a pending Guest Registration (GR) Number, it is not necessary to complete the additional Brookhaven Lab Guest Form again.
Registration Deadlines:
- US citizens: October 28, 2024
- non-US citizens: October 14, 2024
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NDAGConveners: Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
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WelcomeSpeakers: Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
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Review and Adoption of the AgendaSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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TEX-Hf BenchmarkSpeakers: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jesse Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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NNL Data Testing Results using TEX-HfSpeaker: Dr Timothy Trumbull (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Discussion of path forward for Hf
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09:50
Break
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LANL Immersion Density Measurement Process – How Can NCSP Help Address the Nuclear Data NeedSpeaker: Robert Little (LANL)
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RPI Quasi-Differential Scattering CalculationsSpeaker: Greg Siemers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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Status update on RPI LINAC, GELINA and LANSCE
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Open Discussion
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Date and Location of Next MeetingSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Summary of ActionsSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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12:00
Lunch
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WANDAConvener: Dr Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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NDWG and WANDA IntroductionSpeaker: Dr Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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WANDA 2025 OverviewSpeakers: Ellen O'Brien (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jesse Brown (ORNL)
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ValidationConveners: Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
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WelcomeSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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LANL Validation Testing using ENDF/B-VIII.1Speakers: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division), Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Wim Haeck (LANL)
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Testing ENDF/B-VIII.1 at AWESpeaker: Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)
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Benchmarking of ENDF/B-VIII.1 for Reactor Dosimetry and Ex-core Neutron Transport ApplicationsSpeaker: Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)
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Update on the validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1 in GNDS formatSpeaker: Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
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Tables of Neutron Thermal Cross Sections, Westcott Factors, Resonance Integrals, Maxwellian Averaged Cross Sections, Astrophysical Reaction Rates, and r-process Abundances Calculated from the ENDF/B-VIII.1, JEFF-3.3, JENDL-5.0, BROND-3.1, and CENDL-3.2 Evaluated Data LibrariesSpeaker: Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
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Testing of ENDF TSL Libraries Using Advanced Reactor and Criticality BenchmarksSpeaker: Nina Fleming (North Carolina State University)
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IRPhE and ICSBEP validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1 graphite TSLsSpeaker: Dr Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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10:40
Break
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TEX-Hf benchmarkSpeaker: Jesse Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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NNL Validation Testing using ENDF/B-VIII.1Speaker: Linden Cotchen (NNL)
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Pulse Neutron Die-Away Experiments (PNDA) for Nuclear Data ValidationSpeaker: Ruby Araj (LLNL)
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RPI Quasi-differential Scattering Measurements on Ta, Teflon and CuSpeaker: Greg Siemers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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New Benchmarks in the 2023 and 2024 Editions of the ICSBEP HandbookSpeaker: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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12:30
Executive Committee Meeting
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12:30
Lunch
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Measurements
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The development of megaSPIDER instrument for measurements of independent fission product yieldsSpeaker: Panagiotis Gastis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Zr-88+n: the kick-off to study small radioactive samples with DICER at LANSCESpeaker: Thanos Stamatopoulos (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Chlorine at Lujan: Extending the LANSCE Measurements Down to ThermalSpeaker: Kenneth Hanselman (LANL)
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CoGNAC Neutron Scattering Project at LANLSpeaker: Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Updates for LENZ on radioactive isotope studies and SREFTSpeaker: Sean Kuvin
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Remeasurement of the 239Pu(n,f)/235U(n,f) cross section ratio with the fissionTPCSpeaker: Lucas Snyder (LLNL)
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Direct and Indirect Measurements at LLNLSpeaker: Andrew Ratkiewicz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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15:15
Break
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Zr-91 Measurements at GELINASpeaker: Jesse Brown (ORNL)
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Thermal total cross section measurements of different grades of nuclear graphiteSpeaker: Dr Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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Nuclear Data measurements at RPISpeaker: Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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Recent experimental work on (n,n'gamma) using GENESIS at LBNLSpeakers: Lee Bernstein (Staff@lbl.gov;Member@lbl.gov;Other@lbl.gov), Prof. Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)
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The present status of the EXFOR projectSpeaker: Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
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Capture gamma-ray production cross section measurements in thermal neutron capture on Mn, Cu and Ni at UMass Lowell Research ReactorSpeaker: Marian Jandel (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA)
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Measurements of Reaction rates at NSLS-IISpeaker: Andrea Mattera (BNL)
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Formats and ProcessingConveners: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Michael Dunn (Spectra Tech, Inc.)
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AMPXSpeaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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SAMMYSpeaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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10:00
Break
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Decay Data and Processing in GNDSSpeaker: Vincent Cheung (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Covariance for TSLSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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GNDS DiscussionSpeakers: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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12:00
Lunch
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CovariancesConvener: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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ENDF/B-VIII.1 covariance testingSpeaker: Oscar Cabellos (UPM)
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USU and CovarianceSpeaker: Georg Schnabel (IAEA)
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Reevaluating the 252Cf(sf) PFNS and associated covariancesSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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14:45
Break
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15:00
Photo!
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Verifiable Covariance Estimation in the RRRSpeakers: Jacob Forbes (University of Tennessee), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee)
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RRR Covariance Testing DiscussionSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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TSL CovarianceSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Self-Consistent Atomic Thermal Disorder for Perturbing Phonon Density of States and Thermal Scattering LawSpeakers: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Iyad Al-Qasir (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Adjusting VIII.0 mean values and covariances with different integral responsesSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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Evaluation: Evaluations I
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Perspectives on the next ENDFSpeaker: Mark Chadwick (Lanl)
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INDEN plans covering on-going work on Pu-239 and U-233, planned work on iron (Fe-56,Fe-54), chromium, nickel, F-19Speaker: Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)
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R-matrix analysis of n+natCl reactionsSpeaker: Dr Marco Pigni (ORNL)
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12C+n evaluation work extending to 16MeV neutronSpeaker: Hirokazu Sasaki (LosAlamos National Laboratory)
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10:00
Break
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Unique Questions and Answers Revealed in Automated Resonance Fitting and Demonstrated on Ta-181Speaker: Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee)
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Framework for simultaneously evaluating both thermal scattering & resolved resonance parametersSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Progress on the Implementation of NeTS for Multiphysics Reactor AnalysisSpeaker: Jonathan Crozier (NCSU)
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Towards the Development of High-Fidelity TSL EvaluationsSpeaker: Junhyoung Gil (NCSU)
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Aluminium TSL evaluation at high temperatures, as well as the planned work on graphite.Speaker: Al-Qasir Iyad (ORNL)
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12:00
Lunch
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Evaluation: Evaluation II
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LLNL FPY modeling and evaluationSpeaker: Nicolas Schunck (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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LANL FPY evaluationSpeakers: Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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14:40
Break
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n+Pu239 cross sections in the fast regionSpeaker: Andre Sieverding (LLNL)
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Resolved resonance region evaluation of 139La and 14NSpeaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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Semi-microscopic (JLM-B) approach to neutron-nucleus scatteringSpeaker: T Aaina (LLNL)
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