Name: US National Nuclear Data Week 2019 (CSEWG-USNDP-NDAG)
Start: 2019-11-04T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-08T20:50:00-05:00
Location: Berkner Hall

US National Nuclear Data Week 2019 (CSEWG-USNDP-NDAG)

from Monday, 4 November 2019 (08:00) to Friday, 8 November 2019 (20:50)

Monday, 4 November 2019
09:00 Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:10
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL) Dave Brown (BNL)
09:10 Validation Committee
Validation Committee
09:10 - 12:00
Contributions

09:10 Status of astrophysical abundances and rates calculation using ENDF/B libraries - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

09:25 CASL VERA benchmark results with ENDF/B-VII.1 and VIII.0 for Pressurized Water Reactors - Kang Seog Kim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:40 Data validation for fusion neutronics - Tim Bohm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:55 Energy-dependent Bias between ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 for LCT Benchmarks - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:10 CSEWG Validation – Contribution from the IAEA (Validation of codes for ACE libraries, LCT Benchmark analysis) - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency)

10:35 Impact of the ENDF/B-VIII.0 Library on Modeling Nuclear Tools for Oil Exploration - Marie-Laure Mauborgne

10:50 Validation of H-H O at Elevated Temperatures 2 using Diffusion Experiments - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:05 Status of gitlab migration and ADVANCE CI/CD system for ENDF - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory) Ramon Arcilla (NNDC-BNL)

11:15 Problems with 16O(n,n'a) gammas - Dave Brown (BNL)

11:25 Beta-effective benchmarks - David Heinrichs (LLNL)

11:40 Evolution of the ICSBEP and the Need for Modern Benchmarks and Experiments - Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
12:00 Executive Committee
Executive Committee
12:00 - 13:00

LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Validation Committee (overflow)
Validation Committee (overflow)
13:00 - 13:15
Room: B
Contributions

13:00 GNDS implementation update: results of TNSL and heated URRPT testing - Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
13:15 Measurements Committee
Measurements Committee
13:15 - 17:15
Room: B
Contributions

13:15 LENZ Measurement of the 16O(n,al) Reaction and a Chi-Nu Status Update - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

13:45 Measurement of the 35Cl(n,p)35S Reaction Cross Section at LANSCE - Sean Kuvin

13:55 Recent Experimental Activities at LANSCE on Pt Capture Cross Sections - Cathleen Fry (LANL)

14:05 The SREFT (Spatially REsolving Fission Tracker) Time Projection Chamber - Esther Leal Cidoncha

14:15 ORNL neutron cross section measurements for the US Nuclear Criticality Safety Program - Klaus Guber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:35 Experimental Activities at LBNL - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

15:10 Nuclear data measurements carried at TUNL - Fnu Krishichayan (Duke University/TUNL)

15:30 Nuclear data measurement and analysis at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

16:00 Recent work on neutron standards data - Allan Carlson (NIST)

16:20 Current status of EXFOR - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

16:40 Measurements of branching ratios in U-238 - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
08:25 Covariance Committee
Covariance Committee
08:25 - 12:00
Contributions

08:35 Covariance Analysis of Experimental Shape Data - Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:50 CSEWG Initiative of Establishing Templates of Expected Measurement Uncertainties - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

09:10 isotope production charged particle templates - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

09:15 Templates of Expected Measurement Uncertainties and EXFOR - Amanda Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)

09:25 Discussion Time on Templates

09:30 Unrecognized Sources of Uncertainties - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

09:50 Summary of SG44 and TSL Covariance Format - Vladimir Sobes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:10 Current Official GNDS Covariance Format and Format Proposals - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

10:35 Issues in ENDF/B-VIII.0 GNDS Covariances - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

10:50 Mu-bar covariances, Importance and Issues in ENDF/B-VIII.0 - Kent Parsons (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:05 Discussion Time on Formats and Issues

11:10 Covariances Between Fission Observables Coming from Theory - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)

11:25 Standardizing a Renewed Fission Product Yield Library and Related Covariances - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

11:40 Bayesian MC Evaluation Framework for Differential and Integral Data - Goran Arbanas (ORNL)
12:00 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Evaluation Committee (neutrons & photonuclear)
Evaluation Committee (neutrons & photonuclear)
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Be9 photonuclear evaluation - Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)

13:15 Plutonium isotopes - Patrick Talou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:35 R-matrix evaluation of actinides - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

13:50 Evaluations at IRSN - Luiz Leal (IRSN)

14:05 Angular and energy distribution evaluations for 62 N,Z reactions - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

14:20 U isotope evaluations and 208Pb - Ionel Stetcu (Los Alamos National Lab)

14:35 Status of Cr evaluations - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

14:50 Summary of RQ Wright nubar evaluations for Cf, U, Pu, Am isotopes

14:55 7Li and α Production – do we need an LR flag for MT=102? - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency) Skip Kahler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 Evaluation Committee (FPY & decay)
Evaluation Committee (FPY & decay)
15:20 - 17:45
Room: B
Contributions

15:20 Current status of evaluation for ENDF FPY data sublibrary - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:50 A Method for Generation of Fission Yield Covariance Matrices - Eric Matthews (UC Berkeley)

16:10 Fission Product Chain Yield Measurements - Bruce Pierson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Battelle) Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:30 Update of the compilation effort at BNL - Andrea Mattera (BNL)

16:50 A new evaluation of the 147Nd beta-minus decay - Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

17:10 Cumulative fission yield correlations - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

17:30 LLNL Efforts on FPY Evaluations - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
09:00 Formats & Processing Committee
Formats & Processing Committee
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 ENDF-102 Clarification for Discrete Gamma Emission (Tracker #1155) - Bret Beck (LLNL)

09:10 Proposal to Include a “Background” R-matrix Term in the LRF=7 Format (Tracker #1151) - Jesse Brown (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

09:25 Format proposal: CODATA2018 - Jeremy Conlin (LANL)

09:30 Define relativistic flag (KRL) in LRF=7 - Ian Thompson (LLNL) Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

09:40 SAMMY Code Report - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

09:55 PREPRO2019 Processing Code Release - Michael Dunn (Spectra Tech, Inc.)

10:00 New MT's to support IRDFF - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency)

10:10 NJOY Processing Code Report - Jeremy Conlin (LANL)

10:30 AMPX Processing Code Report - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

10:50 FUDGE Processing Code Report - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

11:25 EG-GNDS Status Report - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:40 SG-43 Status Report - Jeremy Conlin (LANL)

11:55 ENDF Manual Update - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Evaluation Committee (ML, TSL, CP)
Evaluation Committee (ML, TSL, CP)
13:00 - 15:00
Room: B
Contributions

13:00 Validating nuclear data by means of machine learning methods - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

13:15 Los Alamos ARCHIMEDES Project - Robert Little (LANL)

13:30 New paradigm for nuclear data evaluation - Mike Herman (BNL)

13:45 ENDF as a Gaussian Process Regression model and the ENDF Belief Network - Dave Brown (BNL)

14:00 TSL Evaluations - Ayman Hawari (North Carolina State University)

14:15 TSL Evaluations - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:30 TN Evaluations - Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

14:45 Charged particle evaluations - Ian Thompson (LLNL)
15:00 Break & Group Photo
Break & Group Photo
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 Evaluation Committee (yet more evaluations!)
Evaluation Committee (yet more evaluations!)
15:20 - 15:30
Room: B
Contributions

15:20 Evaluation and Validation of the α+17,18O Cross Sections - Marco Pigni (ORNL)
15:30
15:30 - 17:50
Contributions

15:30 NDIAWG FOA discussion - Catherine Romano (ORNL) Dave Brown (BNL)

15:45 Lessons learned from NDREW and WANDA2019 - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

16:00 Review and discussion of WANDA2020 agenda - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

16:20 Session topics decisions and selection of session leads - Catherine Romano (ORNL)
Thursday, 7 November 2019
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 Opening Remarks & Introductions - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

09:05 Review and Adoption of the Agenda

09:10 NDAG Membership Discussion - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

09:20 35Cl(n,p) Reaction Measurement and Evaluation Plans - Hye Young Lee (LANL) Marco Pigni (ORNL)

09:50 WPEC SG46 Summary - Mike Herman (BNL)

10:05 Update on IRSN Activities - Luiz Leal (IRSN)

10:20 Status of the Atlas of Neutron Resonances - Dave Brown (BNL)

10:45 Nuclear Data Requests -Review of 5-year plan, Appendix B

11:25 Planning NDAG Review of FY2021 NCSP IE and ND Proposals

11:35 Other Business

11:45 FY2020 NCSP Calendar - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:50 Time and Place of Next NDAG Meeting - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

11:55 Summary of Action Items - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
ENSDF
ENSDF
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 USNDP General Topics - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

09:30 ENSDF Policies and Procedures - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

10:00 ENSDF Data Storage - Adam Hayes (BNL)

10:30 ENSDF Policies and Procedures - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

11:00 GOSIA Coulex Results as ENSDF Data - Adam Hayes (BNL)

11:45 Update on Beta-Shape - Xavier Mougeot (CEA)
12:30 LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 18:00
Contributions

13:30 New Developments in Web and Mobile applications at NNDC

16:00 A new gamma+X-ray coincidence database - Aaron Hurst (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 Gamma-ray emission probability in transient equilibrium: Cases of 137gCe and 85gY - Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)

17:00 Inconsistency in listing time-dependent gamma-ray intensities in ENSDF - Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)

17:10 Update on AME and discussion on superheavies - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:30 Update on the beta-p horizontal evaluation - Jon Batchelder (University of California Berkeley)
Friday, 8 November 2019
09:00
09:00 - 20:50
Contributions

09:00 BNL Report (NSR+EXFOR) - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

09:20 BNL Report (ENSDF+XUNDL+NDS) - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

10:00 Code developments at MSU and MSU report - Jun Chen (NSCL/MSU)

11:00 LANL - Hye Young Lee (LANL) Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:20 LLNL - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

11:35 LBNL - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

12:05 ORNL - Michael Smith (ORNL)

13:20 TAMU - NINEL NICA (TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, CYCLOTRON INSTITUTE)

14:00 The Need for Gamma Spectroscopy Remeasurements of 226Ra Decay - Shaofei Zhu (NNDC,BNL)

14:20 McMaster - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

14:40 Horizontal evaluations at ANL and ANL report - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:40 Decay data issues in activation measurements and the Medical Isotope Browser - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

16:00 TUNL - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)

16:15 NIST - Allan Carlson (NIST)

16:30 Training the next generation through ENSDF related projects - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

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