Proceedings of the CSEWG & USNDP Meetings

November 6-9, 2007

Edited by Pavel Oblozinsky, National Nuclear Data Center, BNL

Summary Document
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Summary of the 57^th Cross Section Evaluation Working Group Meeting

Summary of the 10^th U.S. Nuclear Data Program Meeting

Agenda

CSEWG & USNDP Annual Meetings
November 6-9, 2007

Tuesday, Nov 6, 2007
Berkner B

8:30 - 12:30
Berkner B

CSEWG Opening, Oblozinsky, 10'
CSEWG After ENDF/B-VII.0 (chair Oblozinsky), 2h
- CSEWG organization, Oblozinsky, 10'
- Need for the Covariance Committee, D. Smith, 10'
- Plans for ENDF/B-VII.1 release, Chadwick, 10'
- ENDF database management, Herman, 10'
- Discussion, all
Evaluation Committee (chair Chadwick), 1.5h
- Overview comments, Chadwick, 5'
- Known deficiencies in B-VII, Herman, 15'
- Summary of Am cross sections as discussed at recent Santa Fe workshop, including possible future upgrades, Chadwick, 15'
- Progress at LANL on Pu isotopes, Young or designee, 15'
- Overview of JENDL activities & WPEC SG29 235U capture, Fukahori, 20'
- New LLNL evaluations of 237U, 240Am and structural materials, Brown and Summers (LLNL), 15'

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break

CSEWG Executive Committee working lunch, Berkner A
- CSEWG after ENDF/B-VII.0 (organization, VII.1 release)
- Covariance Workshop (Port Jefferson, end of June 2008)
- WPEC matters (CSEWG team, new subgroups)
- Next meeting (proposed Nov 4-6, 2008, Tue-Thu)
- AOB

14:00 - 18:00
Berkner B

Evaluation Committee cont. (chair Chadwick), 1.5h
- Titanium cross section evaluation (with LANL collaborators), Oh, 15'
- Delayed neutron spectra work, Kawano, 15'
- Tungsten upgrades including pulsed sphere testing, Leal? 10'
- Prompt Pu and U fission spectra & fiss cross sections - possible upgrades in the future LANL & LLNL plans (McNabb/Chadwick), 15'
- Fidget: a widget for simulating fission neutron spectra and fission fragment distribution, Vogt, LLNL 15'
- Evaluation work at KAERI, Lee, 10'
- Impact of ENDF/B-VII.0 release on the fusion library FENDL-2.1, Sawan, 10'
- Update on neutron cross section evaluations at IAEA, Abriola, 5'
Validation Committee (chair McKnight), 2h
- Summary of VII.0 validation, McKnight, 20'
- Recent ENDF/B-VII.0 Validation Work, Kozier, 15'
- Recent ENDF/B-VII.0 Validation Work, Zerkle, 15'
- Validation Testing of ENDF/B-VII.0 from VNIIEF, Kahler, 15'
- Library comparisons of Neutron Capture Rates, Pritychenko, 10'
- Validation testing for Ir, Y, and Tm, Chadwick, 15'
- ENDF/B-VII results in ICSBEP Handbook, Briggs, 15'
- Review of new Russian Integral Experiments for ICSBEP Handbook, Briggs, 15'

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007
Berkner B, Berkner C

8:30 - 12:30
Berkner B

Validation Committee cont. (chair McKnight), 1h
- Performance of the new JEFF and ENDF Data, Rugama, 15'
- Verification Activities, McKnight, 10'
- Testing of the new Cd-113 capture cross section, Mosteller, by Mughabghab, 15'
- ENDF/B-VII Energy Balance, MacFarlane, 10'
Measurements Committee (chair Danon), 2h

Neutron cross section measurements
- Research directions at LANSCE, Haight, 15'
- Status report of ORNL measurement activities, Dunn, 15'
- NIST measurements, including standards activity, Carlson, 15'
- Neutron Cross Section Measurements at LBNL, Firestone, 15'
- Determining the Np-237(n, f) cross section with surrogate method, Basunia, 15'
- Cross Section Measurements and Analysis at Rensselaer, Danon, 15'
- Experiments at LLNL, Wu, 15'
Other topics
- Improvement of EXFOR (WPEC SG30), Oblozinsky, 5'

Formats and Processing Committee (chair Dunn), 1h
- Proposed LB=8 covariance format modification, Trkov
- Definition of 'stable nuclei' for cumulative yields, Mills and Trkov
- Inclusion of LCT flag in MF34, Trkov
- Resolve ambiguity of data representation in MF35, Trkov
- Issue with File 5 requirement for JEFF 3.1 Be-9 MT16 (n,2n), Dean
- Total prompt energy deposition in fission, LANL
- Reduced scattering radius uncertainty, BNL
- Format proposal related to PKA/KERMA, Fukahori, 5'
- Fission Energy Release Format Revision, Kahler, 10'
- Other format proposals

12:30 - 13:50
Lunch break

13:50 - 14:00
Common Photo

14:00 - 18:00
Berkner B

Formats and Processing Committee cont. (chair Dunn), 1.5h

Resonance scattering kernel, Dagan, 10'
Processing Codes, 1h
- NJOY Status Report, Kahler & MacFarlane, 10'
- AMPX Status Report, Dunn, 10'
- LLNL Status Report, Brown, 10'
- ANL Status Report, McKnight, 10'
- Report on Other Processing Codes, All, 10'
- Status of MCNP B-VII.0 library, Little, 5'
- ENDF/B-VII.0 library in ACE Format, Arcilla, 5'
BNL Activities Related to Formats and Processing
- Checking Codes, Herman, 5'
- ENDF-102 Manual, Herman, 10'

Covariance Committee (chair D. Smith), 1.5h, with USNDP
- Lessons from low-fidelity project: Fast neutrons, Pigni, 15'
- Lessons from low-fidelity project: Thermal and RRR, Dunn/Williams, 15'
- Status of WPEC SG 26 work on covariances, Oblozinsky/Dunn, 10'
- Covariance activities in Japan, Fukahori, 15'
- How does KALMAN work, Kawano, 20'
- Covariance Web interface at NNDC, Arcilla, 10'
Model code development (chair Kawano), common session with USNDP, 0.5h

10:00 - 12:30
Berkner C

USNDP Opening, Oblozinsky, 10', Berkner C
USNDP Nuclear Structure WG (chair Baglin), Berkner C
- NDS Publication Issues (discussion leader Tuli)
  - Opening remarks, Tuli, 5'
  - New NDS production software, Singh, 10'
  - Discussion of new NDS format, all

12:30 - 13:50
Lunch break

13:50 - 14:00
Common Photo

14:00 - 17:30
Berkner C and B

USNDP Nuclear Structure WG cont. (chair Baglin), Berkner C
- Databases
  - ENSDF Status, Tuli, 10'
  - NSR Status, Bhattacharya 10'
  - XUNDL Status, Singh, 10'
- Software, Web services
  - NuDat Revision, Sonzogni 10'
  - Status of ENSDF Analysis and Utility Codes, Burrows, 15'
- Reports
  - ENSDF and NSR efforts and future plans at IAEA, Abriola, 20'
  - CRP on Updated Decay Data Library for Actinides, Kondev, 30'
  - Proposed topical evaluation near N~20 Island of Inversion, Basunia, 10'
  - BRICC: How good are CCs now? Burrows, 20'
  - Recent precision ICC measurements at TAMU, Nica, 20'
USNDP Nuclear Reaction WG, common session with CSEWG, Berkner B
- Covariances, with CSEWG
- Model code development, comon session with CSEWG (chair Kawano)
  - PRECO status and future plans, Walker, 10'
  - GNASH status and future plans, Talou, 10'
  - EMPIRE status and future plans, Oblozinsky/Herman, 10'

Thursday, Nov 8, 2007
Berkner B, Berkner C

8:30 - 13:00
Berkner B

Covariance Committee cont. (chair D. Smith), 1.5h
- Material-material correlations in ENDF, Muir, 15'
- Paradigm shift for resonance-region uncertanties, Larson, 10'
- Covariances in XML, Brown, 10'
- Organization of the Covariance Committee, All
- What users really want (thermal, RRR, URR, fast)? All
- Formats, visualization etc. All
- Covariance Workshop in 2008, Oblozinsky, 5'
Services and Other Topics (chair Herman)
- Sigma Web interface, Pritychenko, 15'
- Introduction to NSR, Bhattacharya, 10'
Concluding Session (Oblozinsky)

13:00
CSEWG adjourns

8:30 - 12:30
Berkner C

USNDP Nuclear Structure WG cont. (chair Baglin)

Reports continued
- Role of ENSDF in reaction evaluations, Herman, 20'
- Status of Atomic Mass Evaluation Effort, Kondev, 10'
- Update on efforts to increase European support for ENSDF evaluations, Tuli, 10'
Outreach
- Outreach activities at the NNDC, Pritychenko, 10'
- Nuclear Data Mini-symposium at an APS/DNP meeting? Kelley, 5'
- USNDP visibility at major 2008 conferences (NS'08, ENAM'08)?
- Other ways to increase our visibility?
Formats/Procedures/Policies
- Include both Absolute and Relative Intensities in ENSDF? Browne
- Excessively large BM3W values in ENSDF, Singh
- Evaluation with EGAF thermal neutron capture data, Firestone, 15'
- How should PGAA data (2007ChZX) be used in ENSDF?
- Guidance needed for handling widely different T_1/2 values for first 2+ states in some nuclides, Singh
- Priority addition of newly-discovered nuclides in ENSDF in mass regions not handled by McMaster, Singh
- Treatment of cluster decay in ENSDF; Consistency of T_1/2 in ENSDF and Wallet Cards, Sonzogni, 10'
- Reminder of format/procedure changes following NSDD'2007 meeting
Other business/discussions

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break

USNDP Coordinating Committee working lunch, Berkner A
- Situation in USNDP laboratories
- Report FY07 & Workplan FY09
- Budget briefing FY10
- Next meeting (proposed Nov 5-7, 2008, Wed-Fri)
- AOB

14:00 - 17:30
Berkner B

USNDP User Forum (chair Sonzogni)
- NNDC services, Sonzogni, 10'
- Nuclear Astrophysics at the National Ignition Facility, R. Boyd, LLNL, 30'
- Current Status of REACLIB, R. Cyburt, JINA, 30'
- The UNEDF Project in Nuclear Structure Theory, G. Bertsch, U. of Washington, 30'
- Nuclear Structure Physics Research in Jyvaskyla, H. Penttila, Jyvaskyla, 30'
- Discussion, all

Friday, Nov 9, 2007
Berkner B

8:30 - 13:00
Berkner B

Task Force Reports (chair Tuli) 10' each
- Nuclear data for astrophysics, Smith/Nesaraja
  - Astrophysics reaction rates, Pritychenko, 5'
- Nuclear data for homeland security, McNabb/Brown
Laboratory Reports (chair Tuli) 10' each
- NNDC report, Oblozinsky
- ANL report, Kondev
- LANL report, Kawano
- LBNL report, Clark/Baglin
- LLNL report, Brown
- NIST report, Carlson
- McMaster report, Chen/Singh
- ORNL report, Smith/Nesaraja
- TUNL report, Kelley
Concluding Discussion (Oblozinsky)

13:00
USNDP adjourns

Proceedings of the CSEWG & USNDP Meetings

November 6-9, 2007

Edited by Pavel Oblozinsky, National Nuclear Data Center, BNL

Summary Document Photo

Summary of the 57th Cross Section Evaluation Working Group Meeting

Summary of the 10th U.S. Nuclear Data Program Meeting

Agenda

CSEWG & USNDP Annual Meetings November 6-9, 2007

Tuesday, Nov 6, 2007 Berkner B

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007 Berkner B, Berkner C

Thursday, Nov 8, 2007 Berkner B, Berkner C

Friday, Nov 9, 2007 Berkner B