CSEWG and USNDP Meetings 2005

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

CSEWG: November 8 - 10, 2005 (Tuesday - Thursday)
USNDP: November 9 - 11, 2005 (Wednesday - Friday)

CSEWG Minutes on ENDF/B-VII Validation

CSEWG & USNDP'2005 Photos

Registration:
Each participant must register, foreign nationals must register at least 4 weeks before the meeting.
Note:
Non-members of CSEWG and USNDP should seek explicit approval of the chair if they want to attend.
Accommodation:
Kindly do your own arrangements using links from the present webpage. For on-site housing, a block of efficiency apartments, dorm rooms and guest house rooms have been set aside for the meetings. Please use the #147225 confirmation number when making your reservation.
Transportation:
Several Airport Limo Services are available. We usually use Chrisdee with long experience servicing BNL. When doing your booking, make sure that the driver can enter BNL premises, meaning, among others, that he/she is US citizen.
Presentations:
Presentations in .ppt or .pdf should be submitted 1 week before the meeting so that we can produce a hand-out booklet as in the last year. Kindly send them to pritychenko@bnl.gov, copy to oblozinsky@bnl.gov.

Agenda

P. Oblozinsky, NNDC
Status: Final

Monday, Nov 7, 2005
Berkner C

08:30-18:00
NDAG Criticality Safety Meeting
(Nuclear Data Advisory Group, R. McKnight chair). This meeting is by invitation only.

Tuesday, Nov 8, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

08:30-08:45 CSEWG Opening, Oblozinsky
08:45-10:45 Formats and Processing (Greene chair, parallel session) Format and Related Issues Formats for the near future (Larson) Experiences and/or comments of extended Reich-Moore format (all) Approval of post-fission beta-delayed photon format (Brown) Discreate photon angular distribution (MacFarlane) WPEC format interests (Trkov) Processing Codes Status of LANL code NJOY (MacFarlane) Status of ORNL code AMPX (Dunn) Status of LLNL code (Brown) Status of ANL code VIM (McKnight) Other Items Status of ENDF-102 (Herman), 5' Status of checking codes (Herman), 5' Formats for consideration (Lubitz) Explicit bound atom cross sections Explicit dilute-average cross sections in URR Explicit precision requirements for total cs and its components	08:45-10:45 Measurements and Basic Physics (D. Smith chair, parallel session) Laboratory measurement programs Argonne (Kondev), 10' Los Alamos (Haight), 20' NIST (Carlson), 10' RPI (Danon), 10' Idaho (Cole), 10' Oak Ridge (Leal), 10' Reports on meetings 12th Int. Conf. on Emerging Nucl. Energy Systems (Cheng), 10' IAEA TC Meeting on Nuclear Data for IFMIF (Smith, Cheng, Haight), 15' Special topics LANL actinide nuclear data measurements (Reifarth), 15' Experiments at Yalina sub-critical assembly in Belarus (Kondev), 10' Status of CSISRS compilation (Rochman), 10'
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 ENDF/B-VII Evaluation & Validation (Chadwick chair) Status of ENDF/B-VII Overview Comments, Chadwick, 15' Status of ENDF/B-VII (beta1, known deficiencies), Herman, 25' Phase 1 testing, Zajac, 5' Status of ENDF/B-VII Validation, MacFarlane, 20' Benchmarking ENDF/B-VII beta1, Van der Marck, presented by McKnight, 20'
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break CSEWG Executive Committee Working Lunch, Berkner A ENDF/B-VII Release ENDF/B-VII Paper WPEC Matters Next Meeting
14:00-18:00 ENDF/B-VII Evaluation & Validation, continues (Chadwick chair) Specific Improvements in beta1 Library Actions from July'05 Meeting, Chadwick & Oblozinsky, 15' LANL Evaluations for ENDF/B-VII, Chadwick, 30' ²⁴⁰Am, Brown, 5' ²³²Th Evaluation, Trkov, 15' S(α,β) Changes, MacFarlane, 20' H-1 Evaluation from Hale, MacFarlane, 10' Fission Products, Oblozinsky, 25' ^74,75As, Brown, 5' Gd Isotopes and Covariances in Fast Region, Rochman, 10' Covariance Data in the Resonance Region, Leal & Kawano, 30' Neutron Cross Section Standards, Carlson, 30'

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

08:30-08:45 USNDP Opening Oblozinsky, Berkner B
08:45-12:30 ENDF/B-VII Evaluation & Validation, continues (Chadwick chair) Data Testing Testing of ENDF/B-VII b0, Lubitz, 20' Testing at LANL, MacFarlane, 30' Data Testing, Kahler, 20' ²³³U Testing, Heinrichs, 20' Testing at ANL, McKnight, 20' Testing at INL, Schaefer, 20' Testing at LLNL, Brown, 10' Comparison of B-VI and initial B-VII results for MCNP criticality validation suite, Mosteller/Little, 15' Problems with nuclear data for D-U systems, Kozier, 15'	08:45-12:30 USNDP Structure WG (Baglin chair) 8:45-9:20 Status Reports (5' - 10' each) ENSDF (J. Tuli) NSR (D. Winchell) XUNDL (J. Cameron or B. Singh) ENSDF Analysis and Utility Codes (T. Burrows) 9:20-9:45 BRICC: Newly-released Band/Raman conversion-coefficient calculation utility (T. Burrows), 20' 9:45-10:00 Report on new evaluator recruitment, training and assimilation efforts (J. Tuli), 10' April 2005 and February 2006 evaluator training workshops (ICTP, Trieste) Mentoring/collaboration with newly-trained evaluators 10:00-10:15 Report on IAEA-CRP "Updated Decay Library for Actinides" and its potential implications for ENSDF (F. Kondev), 15'
	10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
	10:30-12:30 USNDP Structure WG, continues (Baglin chair) 10:30-11:00 Update on ENSDF Editor software (A. Sonzogni), 30' 11:00-12:30 Formats/Procedures / Jπ rules, etc. Revision of notation for B(σL) entries in ENSDF. Jπ values in reaction-γ data sets. Update on rotational band nomenclature and new strongly-coupled band Jπ rule (F. Kondev), 5'. Quality/legibility of level scheme and band drawings in Nuclear Data Sheets and ENSDF retrievals. Interactions between ENSDF evaluators, reviewers and editor - are new procedures working? Possible need for program to extract MR from ce data.
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-18:00 ENDF/B-VII Evaluation & Validation, continues (McKnight chair) Data Testing, continues Photofission testing, White, 15' Testing at BNL, Zajac & Aronson (?), 10' Fission products testing, Trkov, 10' Anomalies with Reflected Assemblies, Briggs, 15' ICSBEP Handbook 2005 Edition, Briggs, 5' Other Topics New ENDF/B-VII decay data sublibrary, Sonzogni, 10' ENDF/B-VI with EGAF data, Sleaford, 15' Minor actinide evaluations, Wright/Dunn, 10' Others	14:00-15:30 User Community-USNDP Discussion Forum (Winchell chair) Overview of USNDP Products and Services (D. Winchell, A. Sonzogni, B. Pritychenko), 30' Physics opportunities of gamma-ray tracking detectors (I.Y. Lee), 30' The Study of Proton-Rich Nuclei in the Pb Region (M. Carpenter), 30'
	15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
	15:45-18:15 User Community-USNDP Discussion Forum, continues (Winchell chair) Small, medium and big ideas for NNDC and nuclear data (P. Cottle), 30' Hypernuclear Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy (J. Millener), 30' Discussion, 90' How are current services utilized How can current services be improved How research community can contribute Would a USNDP user group be worthwhile Other?

Thursday, Nov 10, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

08:30-10:30 ENDF/B-VII Evaluation & Validation, continues (McKnight chair) Concluding Discussion What to do with covariances from ENDF/B-VI.8? ENDF/B-VII Release ENDF/B-VII Paper Other topics Next meeting Minutes	08:30-10:45 USNDP Structure WG (Baglin chair) 8:30-8:45 New web interface for evaluated B(E2) data (B. Pritychenko), 10'. 8:45-9:20 Nuclear Data Sheets Impact factors (A. Sonzogni; 20'). Content Accessibility (as libraries cut subscriptions). 9:20-10:00 Possible development of an electronic Table of Isotopes type of product (J. Tuli). 10:00-10:30 Next year's Working Group meeting schedule. Other items?
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 Common Session CSEWG + USNDP Homeland Security (McNabb chair, 1 hour) ¹³C(p,γ)¹⁴N as source reaction for interrogation and ¹⁰B(p,α)⁷Be reaction (Page), 10' Monte-Carlo simulation of fission fragments evaporation (Talou), 10' Update in Nuclear Wallet Cards for Homeland Security (Tuli), 10' Motivation for adding (γ,γ') resonances to photonuclear sublibrary (McNabb), 10' Discussions of data needs (McNabb), 10' Modeling & Astrophysics (Kawano chair, 1 hour), 10' each Code PRECO (Kalbach) Code EMPIRE (Herman) Code McGNASH (Talou) JAERI code (Fukahori) Astrophysics online computer system (Nesaraja) s-process modeling (Reifarth) CSEWG adjourns
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break USNDP Coordinating Committee Working Lunch, Berkner A Report FY05 Workplan FY07 Budget Briefing FY08 Next Meeting
14:00-15:00 USNDP Modeling & Astrophysics, continues (Kawano chair) Berkner B Covariance Methodology, 15' each Resonance region (Leal/Larson/Arbanas) EMPIRE+KALMAN (Herman) Covariance work at LLNL (McNabb/Brown)
15:00-16:00 USNDP Dissemination (Burrows chair) Recent Developments in NNDC Web Service, Pritychenko, 15' USNDP Database Computer System Upgrade, Arcilla, 10' Nuclear Astrophysics Data Dissemination, Nesaraja, 10' Discussion: New services, products, improvements
16:00-18:00 USNDP Reports (TF Reports, Lab Reports) (Oblozinsky chair) TF Nuclear Data for Astrophysics, C. Nesaraja TF Nuclear Data for/from RIA, Kawano TF Nuclear Data for Homeland Security, McNabb NNDC Report, Oblozinsky ANL Report, Kondev LANL Report, Kawano

Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Berkner B

08:30-10:00 USNDP Reports (Lab Reports), continues (Oblozinsky chair) LBNL Report, Baglin LLNL Report, McNabb MacMaster Report, Cameron NIST Report, Carlson ORNL Report, C. Nesaraja TUNL Report, Kelly
10:00-11:30 USNDP Reporting, Coordination, Planning (Oblozinsky chair) Annual Report FY05 Budget FY06, update from Congress, Haight Workplan FY07 Budget Briefing FY08
11:30-12:00 Next Meeting, Minutes, AOB
Lunchtime: USNDP adjourns

CSEWG and USNDP Meetings 2005

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

CSEWG Minutes on ENDF/B-VII Validation

Agenda

Monday, Nov 7, 2005 Berkner C

Tuesday, Nov 8, 2005 Berkner B, Berkner C

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005 Berkner B, Berkner C

Thursday, Nov 10, 2005 Berkner B, Berkner C

Friday, Nov 11, 2005 Berkner B

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

Monday, Nov 7, 2005
Berkner C

Tuesday, Nov 8, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

Thursday, Nov 10, 2005
Berkner B, Berkner C

Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Berkner B