CSEWG and USNDP 2004 Meetings

Cross Section Evaluation Working Group ( CSEWG) and US Nuclear Data Program ( USNDP) Meetings '2004

To NNDC

National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Berkner Hall B and C

CSEWG: November 2 - 4, 2004 (Tuesday - Thursday)
USNDP: November 3 - 5, 2004 (Wednesday - Friday)

Registration

Important: All participants must register. Foreign nationals must register
at least 4 weeks before the meeting for approval to enter BNL premises.

List of Registered Participants

Notes:

On November 1, 2004, Monday, there will be a meeting on Nuclear Data
for Criticality Safety (R. McKnight chair, by invitation only)

Presentations:

Presentations should be prepared in PowerPoint using standard fonts. If PowerPoint is not available or suitable for the contribution, please convert to PDF embedding all fonts if standard fonts are not used.
Please e-mail your contributions to Boris Pritychenko (pritychenko@bnl.gov) by October 26, 2004 noting which sessions the presentations are for.
Laboratory reports should cover through September 30, 2004.

Agenda

P. Oblozinsky, NNDC
Status November 23, 2004

Nov 2, 2004, Tuesday

8:30-8:40, Berkner B: CSEWG Opening, P. Oblozinsky

8:45-10:45, Berkner B: Formats and Processing (M. Greene chair)

I. Format Issues for ENDF/B-VII (1 h)
1. Status report on the compact covariance matrix format, Larson
2. Status report on the Reich-Moore extended format, Larson
3. WPEC format proposals, Trkov
4. Format for Post-fission Beta-delayed Photons, Brown
II. Processing Codes (45')
1. NJOY, MacFarlane
2. AMPX, Dunn
3. LLNL Codes, McNabb
4. ANL Codes, McKnight
III. Other Items (15')
1. Corrections and Revisions to ENDF-102, Dunford and others
2. Status of Checking Codes, Dunford
3. New Nuclear Data Format, McNabb
4. Current Projects of IAEA, Trkov

8:45-10:45, Berkner C: Measurements and Basic Physics (D. Smith chair)

Status report on U.S. experimental work from contributing labs (1 h)

Argonne National Laboratory, Kondev (10')
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Haight (15')
National Institute for Standards and Technology, Carlson (10')
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Danon (10')
Other reports (10')

Report on fusion research and related meetings, Cheng (15')
Recent measurement activity for the standards, Carlson (10')
A proposed new facility at GANIL for neutron measurements, D. Smith (5')
Nuclear data for helium production in fusion, D. Smith (15')
Covariances for Evaluated Cross Sections, D. Smith (5')

11:00-12:30, Berkner B: ENDF/B-VII evaluations and validation (M. Chadwick/R. McKnight chair)

Conversion of ENDF/B-VI.8 to ENDF/B-VII (Dunford, 10')
ENDF/B-VII status (Herman, 10')
Neutron cross section standards (Carlson, 50')

13:00-14:00, Berkner A: Working lunch of the CSEWG Executive Committee

ENDF/B-VII release
ENDF/B-VII paper
WPEC matters
Next meeting
Minutes

14:00-17:30, Berkner B: ENDF/B-VII evaluations & validation continued (M. Chadwick/R. McKnight chair)

Actinides

238-U evaluation and data testing

LANL improvements for nn' and capture (Chadwick)
ORNL resonance analysis just completed (Leal and Courcelle)
Summary of WPEC Subgroup 22 (Lubitz and Courcelle)
Preliminary data testing on latest 238-U (MacFarlane)
Benchmark Testing of Various 238-U Cross Sections (Weinman)
Others on data testing (Huria, ...)
Delayed neutrons issues? (Wilson, McKnight)

235-U evaluation

Status of evaluation (Chadwick, Leal)
Questions on 235-U capture in 10-100 keV range (Kawano)
235-U Data Testing with ICSBEP Benchmarks (Kahler)
Data testing (MacFarlane, ...)
Delayed neutrons issues?

239-Pu evaluation

Status of evaluation, plans for nn' (Chadwick et al.)
Data testing
Delayed neutrons issues?

Am evaluation

Status of 241-Am evaluation (Kawano)
Status and plans for 242,243-Am evaluation (Talou)
Critical assembly testing of 241-Am capture (MacFarlane)

Nov 3, 2004, Wednesday

8:30-12:30, Berkner B: ENDF/B-VII evaluations & validation continued (R. McKnight chair)

Actinides continued (Chadwick)

Other U evaluations, especially 233-U (all)
237-Np critical assembly tests (all)
237-Np evaluation (all)
ENDF/B-VI and Preliminary ENDF/B-VII Results for the MCNP Criticality Validation Suite (Mosteller and Little)

Fission products (Oblozinsky)

Status of WPEC FP library (Dunford)

Other evaluations

Light nuclei reactions, update (Page, Hale)
A-8 reactions, charged particle reactions (Page)
Status of photonuclear library (MacFarlane, White)

New 240,242-Pu and 238-U GNASH calculations (Chadwick)

Putting new 89-Y and 191,193-Ir and 169-Tm into B-VII? (Chadwick, Kawano, Talou, Herman)
Deuterium issue (Little, MacFarlane, Hale)
Revision of ENDF-202 (McKnight)
ICSBEP Handbook 2004 DVD (Briggs)
Miscellaneous Benchmark Results with Preliminary ENDF/B-VII (Naberezhnev)
LLNL Contributions to ENDF/B-VII (Brown)
Fixes to LANL 232, 237, 239-U(n,γ), (n,f) and (n,2n) cross section evaluations (Brown)

14:00-14:10, Berkner B: USNDP Opening, P. Oblozinsky

14:15-17:30, Berkner B: ENDF/B-VII other topics (M. Chadwick/R. McKnight chair)

Decay Data (Wilson, 15')

Comment by Reich
Comment by Sonzogni

Delayed Neutrons (Wilson, 10')
Fission Yields (Wilson, 10')
Thermal Neutron Scattering (MacFarlane, 10')
Testing of Delayed Neutrons (Schaefer, 15')
Covariances (Kawano, 20')
Elemental evaluations (Herman, 5')
Paper on ENDF/B-VII (Oblozinsky, 5')

14:15-17:30, Berkner C: USNDP Structure WG (C. Baglin chair)

I. Status reports (5' - 10' each, except as noted):
1. NSR (Winchell)
2. XUNDL (Cameron for Singh)
3. ENSDF (Tuli)
4. DDEP (Browne)
5. ENSDF Analysis and Utility Codes (Burrows)
6. Implementation of Band/Raman conversion coefficient table (Burrows, 15')
7. NuDat (Sonzogni, 15')
8. Table of nuclear moments (Stone, 20')
II. Report on Minisymposium at October'04 DNP meeting (Winchell, 5')

III. Reports on evaluator recruitment and training efforts (Tuli, 10')
1. November 2003 training session (Trieste)
2. April 2005 training session (Trieste)
3. Mentoring activities
IV. Possibilities for ENSDF Editor software (Sonzogni, 20')

V. Formats/Procedures/J^π rules
1. Nomenclature for rotational bands and configurations (Kondev, 10')
2. Interactions between ENSDF evaluators, reviewers and editor (Cameron, 10')
3. Are A-chain responsibilities reasonably distributed? (Tuli, 10')
4. Should we recommend inclusion of cross section data in transfer reaction datasets for which there are no spectroscopic factor determinations? (5')
5. Consistency (or lack of it!) in treatment of multipolarity and J^π assignments in ENSDF for high-spin reaction data; what do our present rules really mean and what revisions should we make? (Baglin, 10')
6. Unpublished references (Tuli, 10')

Nov 4, 2004, Thursday

8:30-10:30, Berkner B: Nuclear Data for Homeland Security
(Common session of CSEWG + USNDP, D. McNabb chair)

Nuclear Wallet Cards for Homeland Security (Tuli, 15')
Photon production from Ge + n (Herman, 15')
Neutron activation data for neutron interrogation applications (D. Smith, 15')
p + ¹³C => gamma source reaction for interrogation & photonuclear work (Page, 15')
Neutron capture spectra and other nuclear data plans (McNabb, 15')
Attribution work on Americium (Kawano, 15')
Nuclear data for gamma-ray telescope simulations (Phlips, 15')
Discussion of needs document (McNabb)

10:45-12:00, Berkner B: Reaction Modeling & Astrophysics (Common session of CSEWG Evaluation Committee + USNDP Reaction WG) , (T. Kawano chair)

Code PRECO (Kalbach, 5')
Code EMPIRE (Herman, 5')
Code McGNASH (Talou, 5')
Summary of reaction code developments (Kawano, 5')
Code TALYS, Monte Carlo and Covariances (Koning, 15')
Structure models relevant for r-process (Moller, 10')
Capture cross sections with DANCE for s-process (Kawano, 10')
Computational infrastructure for Nuclear Astrophysics (M. Smith, 10')

12:00-12:30: CSEWG concluding session, P. Oblozinsky

ENDF/B-VII release
Next meeting
Minutes
Other business

12:30 CSEWG adjourns

10:45-12:30, Berkner C: USNDP Structure WG (C. Baglin chair)

Completion of discussion of previous afternoon's topics, if relevant
Discussion of any structure/decay topics emerging from Homeland Security session
Did this year's meeting schedule work or do we need a different schedule next year? (5')

13:00-14:00, Berkner A: Working lunch of the USNDP Coordinating Committee

Reporting and planning: New format?
New chairman of reaction WG
Budget briefing
ENSDF evaluations and related initiatives
Format and date of the next meeting

14:00-17:30, Berkner B: USNDP data dissemination, TF and lab reports (P. Oblozinsky chair)

New NNDC Web service (Pritychenko, 15')
Other contributions on dissemination

Nuclear Data for Astrophysics (M. Smith)
Nuclear Data for RIA (Kawano)
Nuclear Data for Homeland Security (McNabb)
Impact of Nuclear Data on society (Kelly)

NNDC report (Oblozinsky)
ANL report (Kondev)
Georgia Tech report (Wood)
Idaho report (Reich)
LANL report (Kawano)
LBNL report (Baglin)
LLNL report (McNabb)
NIST report (Carlson)
McMaster report (Cameron for Singh)
ORNL report (M. Smith)
TUNL report (Kelly)

Nov 5, 2004, Friday

8:30-12:00, Berkner B: USNDP Concluding Session (P. Oblozinsky, chair)

Reporting, coordination and planning

Annual report FY04 (Dunford)
Workplan FY06 (Dunford)
Coordination

Proposals

High Energy Nuclear Database (Brown, 10')
MINIT Initiative (M. Smith, 10')

Budget briefing (Oblozinsky)

Issues
Initiatives

Next meeting
Minutes
Other business

12:00 USNDP adjourns