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Nuclear Data Week 2024 (CSEWG-NDAG)
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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
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The November 2024 Cross Section Evaluation Working Group meeting will happen during Election Week 2024! ย
- NCSP NDAG - Monday AM
- WANDA 2025 Planning - Monday PM
- CSEWG - Tuesday - Thursday all day
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Non-U.S. citizensย 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.ย 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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Welcome 5mSpeakers: Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
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Review and Adoption of the Agenda 5mSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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08:10
TEX-Hf Benchmark 20mSpeakers: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jesse Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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NNL Data Testing Results using TEX-Hf 20mSpeaker: Dr Timothy Trumbull (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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ORNL Data Testing Results using TEX-Hf 20mSpeaker: Luiz Leal (ORNL)
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Discussion of path forward for Hf 20m
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Break 20m
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LANL Immersion Density Measurement Process โ How Can NCSP Help Address the Nuclear Data Need 30mSpeaker: Robert Little (LANL)
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RPI Quasi-Differential Scattering Calculations 30mSpeaker: Greg Siemers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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Status update on RPI LINAC, GELINA and LANSCE 20m
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Open Discussion 20m
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Date and Location of Next Meeting 5mSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Summary of Actions 5mSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Lunch 2h
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WANDAConvener: Dr Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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NDWG and WANDA Introduction 10mSpeaker: Dr Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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WANDA 2025 Overview 2h 50mSpeakers: 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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Welcome 5mSpeakers: Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory), Dr Michael Zerkle (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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LANL Validation Testing using ENDF/B-VIII.1 20mSpeakers: 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 AWE 15mSpeaker: Mark Cornock (AWE.Plc)
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Benchmarking of ENDF/B-VIII.1 for Reactor Dosimetry and Ex-core Neutron Transport Applications 20mSpeaker: Greg Fischer (Westinghouse)
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Update on the validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1 in GNDS format 10mSpeaker: 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 Libraries 20mSpeaker: Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
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Testingย of ENDF TSL Libraries Using Advancedย Reactor and Criticality Benchmarks 20mSpeaker: Nina Fleming (North Carolina State University)
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IRPhE and ICSBEP validation of ENDF/B-VIII.1 graphite TSLs 20mSpeaker: Dr Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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Break 10m
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TEX-Hf benchmark 20mSpeaker: Jesse Norris (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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NNL Validation Testing using ENDF/B-VIII.1 20mSpeaker: Linden Cotchen (NNL)
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Pulse Neutron Die-Away Experiments (PNDA) for Nuclear Data Validation 20mSpeaker: Ruby Araj (LLNL)
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RPI Quasi-differential Scattering Measurements on Ta, Teflon and Cu 20mSpeaker: Greg Siemers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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New Benchmarks in the 2023 and 2024 Editions of the ICSBEP Handbook 20mSpeaker: Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Executive Committee Meeting 1h
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Lunch 1h
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Measurements
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The development of megaSPIDER instrument for measurements of independent fission product yields 15mSpeaker: Panagiotis Gastis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Zr-88+n: the kick-off to study small radioactive samples with DICER at LANSCE 15mSpeaker: Thanos Stamatopoulos (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Chlorine at Lujan: Extending the LANSCE Measurements Down to Thermal 15mSpeaker: Kenneth Hanselman (LANL)
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CoGNAC Neutron Scattering Project at LANL 15mSpeaker: Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Updates for LENZ on radioactive isotope studies and SREFT 15mSpeaker: Sean Kuvin
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Remeasurement of the 239Pu(n,f)/235U(n,f) cross section ratio with the fissionTPC 15mSpeaker: Lucas Snyder (LLNL)
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Direct and Indirect Measurements at LLNL 15mSpeaker: Andrew Ratkiewicz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Break 15m
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Zr-91 Measurements at GELINA 15mSpeaker: Jesse Brown (ORNL)
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Thermal total cross section measurements of different grades of nuclear graphite 15mSpeaker: Dr Kemal Ramic (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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Nuclear Data measurements at RPI 20mSpeaker: Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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Recent experimental work on (n,n'gamma) using GENESIS at LBNL 20mSpeakers: 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 project 20mSpeaker: 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 Reactor 20mSpeaker: Marian Jandel (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA)
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Measurements of Reaction rates at NSLS-II 15mSpeaker: Andrea Mattera (BNL)
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Formats and ProcessingConveners: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Michael Dunn (Spectra Tech, Inc.)
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AMPX 20mSpeaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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SAMMY 20mSpeaker: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
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Break 20m
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Decay Data and Processing in GNDS 20mSpeaker: Vincent Cheung (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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Covariance for TSL 15mSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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GNDS Discussion 30mSpeakers: Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Nathan Gibson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Lunch 1h
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CovariancesConvener: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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ENDF/B-VIII.1 covariance testing 20mSpeaker: Oscar Cabellos (UPM)
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USU and Covariance 20mSpeaker: Georg Schnabel (IAEA)
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Standards 25mSpeaker: Allan Carlson (NIST)
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Reevaluating the 252Cf(sf) PFNS and associated covariances 20mSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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Break 15m
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Photo! 10m
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Verifiable Covariance Estimation in the RRR 20mSpeakers: Jacob Forbes (University of Tennessee), Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee)
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RRR Covariance Testing Discussion 10mSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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TSL Covariance 20mSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Self-Consistent Atomic Thermal Disorder for Perturbing Phonon Density of States and Thermal Scattering Law 20mSpeakers: 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 responses 20mSpeaker: Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)
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Evaluation: Evaluations I
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Perspectives on the next ENDF 20mSpeaker: 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-19 30mSpeaker: Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)
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R-matrix analysis of n+natCl reactions 30mSpeaker: Dr Marco Pigni (ORNL)
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12C+n evaluation work extending to 16MeV neutron 20mSpeaker: Hirokazu Sasaki (LosAlamos National Laboratory)
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Break 20m
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Unique Questions and Answers Revealed in Automated Resonance Fitting and Demonstrated on Ta-181 20mSpeaker: Vladimir Sobes (University of Tennessee)
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Framework for simultaneously evaluating both thermal scattering & resolved resonance parameters 20mSpeaker: Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Progress on the Implementation of NeTS for Multiphysics Reactor Analysis 20mSpeaker: Jonathan Crozier (NCSU)
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Towards the Development of High-Fidelity TSL Evaluations 20mSpeaker: Junhyoung Gil (NCSU)
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Aluminium TSL evaluation at high temperatures, as well as the planned work on graphite. 20mSpeaker: Al-Qasir Iyad (ORNL)
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Evaluation: Evaluation II
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LLNL FPY modeling and evaluation 20mSpeaker: Nicolas Schunck (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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LANL FPY evaluation 20mSpeakers: Amy Lovell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Break 20m
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n+Pu239 cross sections in the fast region 20mSpeaker: Andre Sieverding (LLNL)
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Resolved resonance region evaluation of 139La and 14N 20mSpeaker: Jordan McDonnell (UT-Battelle)
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Semi-microscopic (JLM-B) approach to neutron-nucleus scattering 15mSpeaker: T Aaina (LLNL)
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