Présidents de session
Tools for Evaluations
- Dimitri Rochman (NAGRA)
Tools for Evaluations
- Stéphane Hilaire (CEA DAM DIF)
Our theoretical understanding of low-energy nuclear reactions induced by light particles has reached a reasonable degree of reliability, and nuclear modeling codes are widely used to assess and guide nuclear data evaluations (with measurements remaining crucial for data testing and benchmarking). Since such modeling codes require a considerable amount of numerical input, the International...
Light-ion reactions represent one of the most fascinating areas of nuclear data & theory. Residing far from the mass region where collective mean-field descriptions are valid, only a fully microscopic quantum many-body approach can be applied in hopes of reaching a predictive regime. First principles approaches offer a completely new framework for the evaluation of nuclear data, ranging from...
Evaluations of nuclear reaction data for actinides are reviewed, with examples drawn from recent work conducted within the IAEA INDEN project. By combining state of the art theoretical modelling with selected and vetted experimental data for the major reaction channels, high quality evaluations with excellent integral performance can be achieved. Particular emphasis is placed on the key...
Current nuclear data formats such as EXFOR and ENDF-6 inherit structural constraints originating from the Fortran punch-card era. While these formats have been successfully used for decades, their ASCII-based fixed-width structure makes them difficult to understand for new users and cumbersome to use in modern computational environments. As a result, tasks such as programmatic searching,...
