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, November 4, 2019 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 8, 2019 (8:50 PM)

Monday, November 4, 2019
9:00 AM Welcome
Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: B
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL) Dave Brown (BNL)
9:10 AM Validation Committee
Validation Committee
9:10 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:10 AM Status of astrophysical abundances and rates calculation using ENDF/B libraries - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

9:25 AM CASL VERA benchmark results with ENDF/B-VII.1 and VIII.0 for Pressurized Water Reactors - Kang Seog Kim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

9:40 AM Data validation for fusion neutronics - Tim Bohm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

9:55 AM Energy-dependent Bias between ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 for LCT Benchmarks - William Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Evolution of the ICSBEP and the Need for Modern Benchmarks and Experiments - Catherine Percher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
12:00 PM Executive Committee
Executive Committee
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Validation Committee (overflow)
Validation Committee (overflow)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:00 PM GNDS implementation update: results of TNSL and heated URRPT testing - Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL)
1:15 PM Measurements Committee
Measurements Committee
1:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:15 PM LENZ Measurement of the 16O(n,al) Reaction and a Chi-Nu Status Update - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

1:45 PM Measurement of the 35Cl(n,p)35S Reaction Cross Section at LANSCE - Sean Kuvin

1:55 PM Recent Experimental Activities at LANSCE on Pt Capture Cross Sections - Cathleen Fry (LANL)

2:05 PM The SREFT (Spatially REsolving Fission Tracker) Time Projection Chamber - Esther Leal Cidoncha

2:15 PM ORNL neutron cross section measurements for the US Nuclear Criticality Safety Program - Klaus Guber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:35 PM Experimental Activities at LBNL - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

3:10 PM Nuclear data measurements carried at TUNL - Fnu Krishichayan (Duke University/TUNL)

3:30 PM Nuclear data measurement and analysis at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

4:00 PM Recent work on neutron standards data - Allan Carlson (NIST)

4:20 PM Current status of EXFOR - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

4:40 PM Measurements of branching ratios in U-238 - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
8:25 AM Covariance Committee
Covariance Committee
8:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

8:35 AM Covariance Analysis of Experimental Shape Data - Keegan Kelly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

8:50 AM CSEWG Initiative of Establishing Templates of Expected Measurement Uncertainties - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

9:10 AM isotope production charged particle templates - Lee Bernstein (LBNL/UCB)

9:15 AM Templates of Expected Measurement Uncertainties and EXFOR - Amanda Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)

9:25 AM Discussion Time on Templates

9:30 AM Unrecognized Sources of Uncertainties - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

9:50 AM Summary of SG44 and TSL Covariance Format - Vladimir Sobes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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

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

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

11:05 AM Discussion Time on Formats and Issues

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

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

11:40 AM Bayesian MC Evaluation Framework for Differential and Integral Data - Goran Arbanas (ORNL)
12:00 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Evaluation Committee (neutrons & photonuclear)
Evaluation Committee (neutrons & photonuclear)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Be9 photonuclear evaluation - Jason Thompson (NNL-KAPL)

1:15 PM Plutonium isotopes - Patrick Talou (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

1:35 PM R-matrix evaluation of actinides - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

1:50 PM Evaluations at IRSN - Luiz Leal (IRSN)

2:05 PM Angular and energy distribution evaluations for 62 N,Z reactions - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

2:20 PM U isotope evaluations and 208Pb - Ionel Stetcu (Los Alamos National Lab)

2:35 PM Status of Cr evaluations - Gustavo Nobre (BNL)

2:50 PM Summary of RQ Wright nubar evaluations for Cf, U, Pu, Am isotopes

2:55 PM 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)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM Evaluation Committee (FPY & decay)
Evaluation Committee (FPY & decay)
3:20 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: B
Contributions

3:20 PM Current status of evaluation for ENDF FPY data sublibrary - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

3:50 PM A Method for Generation of Fission Yield Covariance Matrices - Eric Matthews (UC Berkeley)

4:10 PM Fission Product Chain Yield Measurements - Bruce Pierson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Battelle) Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:30 PM Update of the compilation effort at BNL - Andrea Mattera (BNL)

4:50 PM A new evaluation of the 147Nd beta-minus decay - Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

5:10 PM Cumulative fission yield correlations - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

5:30 PM LLNL Efforts on FPY Evaluations - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
9:00 AM Formats & Processing Committee
Formats & Processing Committee
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM ENDF-102 Clarification for Discrete Gamma Emission (Tracker #1155) - Bret Beck (LLNL)

9:10 AM Proposal to Include a “Background” R-matrix Term in the LRF=7 Format (Tracker #1151) - Jesse Brown (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

9:25 AM Format proposal: CODATA2018 - Jeremy Conlin (LANL)

9:30 AM Define relativistic flag (KRL) in LRF=7 - Ian Thompson (LLNL) Mark Paris (LANL T-2)

9:40 AM SAMMY Code Report - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

9:55 AM PREPRO2019 Processing Code Release - Michael Dunn (Spectra Tech, Inc.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:55 AM ENDF Manual Update - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Evaluation Committee (ML, TSL, CP)
Evaluation Committee (ML, TSL, CP)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: B
Contributions

1:00 PM Validating nuclear data by means of machine learning methods - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

1:15 PM Los Alamos ARCHIMEDES Project - Robert Little (LANL)

1:30 PM New paradigm for nuclear data evaluation - Mike Herman (BNL)

1:45 PM ENDF as a Gaussian Process Regression model and the ENDF Belief Network - Dave Brown (BNL)

2:00 PM TSL Evaluations - Ayman Hawari (North Carolina State University)

2:15 PM TSL Evaluations - Chris Chapman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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

2:45 PM Charged particle evaluations - Ian Thompson (LLNL)
3:00 PM Break & Group Photo
Break & Group Photo
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM Evaluation Committee (yet more evaluations!)
Evaluation Committee (yet more evaluations!)
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: B
Contributions

3:20 PM Evaluation and Validation of the α+17,18O Cross Sections - Marco Pigni (ORNL)
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM NDIAWG FOA discussion - Catherine Romano (ORNL) Dave Brown (BNL)

3:45 PM Lessons learned from NDREW and WANDA2019 - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

4:00 PM Review and discussion of WANDA2020 agenda - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

4:20 PM Session topics decisions and selection of session leads - Catherine Romano (ORNL)
Thursday, November 7, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening Remarks & Introductions - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

9:05 AM Review and Adoption of the Agenda

9:10 AM NDAG Membership Discussion - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

9:20 AM 35Cl(n,p) Reaction Measurement and Evaluation Plans - Hye Young Lee (LANL) Marco Pigni (ORNL)

9:50 AM WPEC SG46 Summary - Mike Herman (BNL)

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

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

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

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

11:35 AM Other Business

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

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

11:55 AM Summary of Action Items - Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)
ENSDF
ENSDF
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM USNDP General Topics - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

9:30 AM ENSDF Policies and Procedures - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

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

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

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

11:45 AM Update on Beta-Shape - Xavier Mougeot (CEA)
12:30 PM LUNCH
LUNCH
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM New Developments in Web and Mobile applications at NNDC

4:00 PM A new gamma+X-ray coincidence database - Aaron Hurst (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:30 PM Gamma-ray emission probability in transient equilibrium: Cases of 137gCe and 85gY - Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)

5:00 PM Inconsistency in listing time-dependent gamma-ray intensities in ENSDF - Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)

5:10 PM Update on AME and discussion on superheavies - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:30 PM Update on the beta-p horizontal evaluation - Jon Batchelder (University of California Berkeley)
Friday, November 8, 2019
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 8:50 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM BNL Report (NSR+EXFOR) - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

9:20 AM BNL Report (ENSDF+XUNDL+NDS) - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

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

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

11:20 AM LLNL - Ian Thompson (LLNL)

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

12:05 PM ORNL - Michael Smith (ORNL)

1:20 PM TAMU - NINEL NICA (TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, CYCLOTRON INSTITUTE)

2:00 PM The Need for Gamma Spectroscopy Remeasurements of 226Ra Decay - Shaofei Zhu (NNDC,BNL)

2:20 PM McMaster - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Balraj Singh (McMaster University)

2:40 PM Horizontal evaluations at ANL and ANL report - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

3:40 PM Decay data issues in activation measurements and the Medical Isotope Browser - Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

4:00 PM TUNL - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)

4:15 PM NIST - Allan Carlson (NIST)

4:30 PM Training the next generation through ENSDF related projects - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

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