Methods and approaches to provide feedback from nuclear and covariance data adjustment for improvement of nuclear data files

SG39 meeting, May 2017

The 9^th Subgroup meeting was held at the OECD Headquarters, Paris, France, 16-17 May 2017

Agenda

Summary record

Presentations

• SG39-0: "Welcome and actions review", Giuseppe PALMIOTTI, Massimo SALVATORES, Oscar CABELLOS
• SG39-1: "Notes on an NJOY Processing Caution when Doppler Broadening", Oscar CABELLOS

Methods

• SG39-2: "Comparison of PIA sequences by using the UR U238 capture cross-section as a standard", Sandro PELLONI
• SG39-3: "Continuous Energy Cross Section Adjustment: recent advances in the method development and verification", Manuel AUFIERO (presented by G. Palmiotti)

Adjustments, experiment analysis and tools

• SG39-4: "Nuclear data adjustments based on MAESTRO and ERMINE reactivity worth experiments from MINERVE", Pierre LECONTE
• SG39-5: "Correlations between integral experiments in the same series, and the impact of these correlations on adjustments", Ian HILL
• SG39-6: "Status of NEA tools DICE (sensitivity coefficients) and NDaST (propagate proposed adjustments, or ND covariances, to integral experiment results via the DICE sensitivities)", Ian HILL, James DYRDA

Adjustments, experiment analysis and tools

• SG39-7: "Updated adjustment result by adding HCLWR-PROTEUS and SNEAK on the basis of the SG33 benchmark", Kenji YOKOYAMA
• SG39-8: "Impact of CIELO evaluation on C/E of a large integral experiments data base", Giuseppe PALMIOTTI
• SG39-9: "Am241 data issues in the frame of criticality safety assessment", Andrew BARNES (cancelled)
• SG39-10: "Some notes on covariance evaluation process for CIELO and ENDF/B-VIII files", Patrick TALOU

Discussion on perspectives and actions

• SG39-11: "Overview of the SG44 kick-off meeting", Vladimir SOBES
• SG39-12: "The new subgroup "Efficient and Effective Use of Integral Experiments for Nuclear Data Validation" proposal", Massimo SALVATORES, Giuseppe PALMIOTTI
• Proposal Mandate SG46: "The new subgroup "Efficient and Effective Use of Integral Experiments for Nuclear Data Validation" proposal

Last update: 19 September 2017