Nuclear Data Sheets

A new trend was initiated by NDS in 2006. Publishing of Recent References was discontinued in view of convenient web access to NSR, and the freed space was made available to Special Issues on Nuclear Reaction Data. This was prompted by the need to establish a suitable vehicle for publishing important papers on nuclear reaction data that are often too extensive or too detailed for other journals.

The opening of Nuclear Data Sheets to nuclear reaction data (1 issue compared to 11 issues on structure data per year) is in line with NDS broadly defined scope "A Journal Devoted to Compilations and Evaluations of Experimental and Theoretical Results in Nuclear Physics". The potential benefit to NDS is considerable. By publishing highly cited papers on reaction data, the relevance of the journal can significantly increase.

Special Issues were dedicated to the following nuclear reaction data topics:

2006 - Evaluated Nuclear Data File ENDF/B-VII.0, containing "Big Paper" on the new US library and a paper on the library validation. 2007 - Evaluations of Neutron Cross Sections, containing "Big Paper no.2" on uranium evaluations, paper on the code EMPIRE, and two papers on radchem data. 2008 - Covariance Workshop Proceedings, containing more than 30 papers presented in Port Jeff, NY on June 24-27, 2008. To be published in December 2008.