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EMPIRE-2.18 (Mondovi)
Mandatory; contains FORTRAN sources, input parameter library, scripts, GUI, and manual; size 8.5 Mb

Installation script
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Recommended; Bash script for installing and setting up the whole EMPIRE-II package

EXFOR library
Optional; needed only for plotting comparison with experimental data; status May 18, 2001; size 62 Mb!

HF-BCS level densities
Optional; needed only if tabulated HF-BCS level densities are to be used; size 43 Mb!

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Documentation

Manual (PS)
Manual (pdf)
Tsukuba contribution
CGS11 contribution

Installation

Guide
Test cases

Developers

• M. Herman (BNL), co-ordinator
• R. Capote (IAEA)
• P. Oblozinsky (BNL)
• A. Trkov (IAEA)

Features

• Broad range of energies (from above the resonance region up to a few hundreds of MeV)
• Projectile: any nucleon or nucleus (including HI)
• ENDF-6 formatting
• Automatic retrieval of experimental data from the EXFOR library
• Automatic plotting of experimental and calculated results (excitation functions, ang. distr. and double diff.)
• GUI assisted interactive plotting of experimental and calculated excitation functions with a possibility of comparing up to three calculations/evaluations and option for merging plots.
• Easy operation through Graphic User Interface (GUI) written in Tcl/Tk

Parameter libraries

• nuclear masses (Nix-Moller and Audi95)
• ground state deformations (Nix-Moller)
• optical model parameters (RIPL-2)
• discrete levels and decay schemes (RIPL-2)
• level densities (including HF-BCS from RIPL-2)
• fission barriers (BARFIT)
• moments of inertia (MOMFIT)
• gamma-ray strength functions (RIPL-1)

Incorporated Codes

• ECIS-95 coupled channels by J. Raynal
• SCAT2 spherical optical model by O. Bersillon
• CCFUS simplified coupled channels calculation of HI fusion cross section by C.H. Dasso and S. Landowne
• ORION+TRISTAN TUL approach to Multistep Direct by H. Lenske
• DDHMS Monte Carlo preequilibrium by M. Chadwick
• DEGAS exciton model by E. Betak and P. Oblozinsky
• BARMOM fission barriers and moments of inertia by A. Sierk

Reaction mechanisms

• Spherical Optical Model
• Coupled Channels (CC) and DWBA
• Simplified CC for HI fusion
• TUL Multistep Direct
• NVWY Multistep Compound with gamma emission
• Second-chance preeq. emission
• Exciton Model
• Monte Carlo preequilibrium
• HRTW for widths fluctuations
• Hauser-Feshbach model with full gamma-cascade and dynamical deformation effects

Outputs

• Total, elastic and reaction cross sections
• Cumulative residue production cross sections
• Multi-chance fission cross sections
• Elastic and inelastic angular distributions
• Double-differential cross sections for inelastic scattering
• Particle and gamma-spectra
• Cross sections for discrete gamma transitions
• Population of discrete levels (isomeric ratios)
• Recoil spectra (emission and excitation energy correlations taken into account)

Utility codes

• EMPEND converts EMPIRE results into ENDF-VI format (written by A. Trkov)
• X4TOC4 converts experimental data retrieved from EXFOR into computational format (written by D. E. Cullen)
• FIXUP used to reconstruct MT=4, 103, and 107 (written by D.E. Cullen)
• LEGEND calculate linearly interpolable angular distributions from ENDF data (written by D.E. Cullen)
• LSTTAB tabulates ENDF and EXFOR data in PLOTTAB format (written by A.Trkov)
• SIXTAB converts ENDF file MF6 to Law 7 representation (written by A.Trkov)
• PLOTC4 plots comparison between EMPIRE results and EXFOR data (written by D.E. Cullen and extended by A. Trkov)
• ZVView publication quality interactive plotting package written by V. Zerkin (ZVView Guide)