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R-Matrix Codes for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions in the Resolved Resonance Region (3), Summary Report of an IAEA Consultants' Meeting IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 28-30 June 2017

A Consultants Meeting was held at the IAEA Headquarters, from 28 to 30 June 2017, to discuss the results of a test exercise that had been defined and assigned to all participants of the previous meeting held in December 2016. Five codes were used in this exercise: AMUR, AZURE2, RAC, SFRESCO and SAMMY. The results obtained from these codes were compared and further actions were proposed. Participants’ presentations and technical discussions, as well as proposed additional actions have been summarized in this report.

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Updates to R-matrix Evaluations of Fissile Actinides: 233,235 U, 239 Pu [Slides]

This presentation begins by discussing the importance and significance of cross section fluctuations. It also discusses the motivation and overarching goals which are to establish the highest fidelity nuclear evaluated data. In conclusion, a procedure to accurately model the measured cross section fluctuations for inclusion into evaluated nuclear data files was developed and tested on 239 Pu total cross sections. The procedure consisted of defining population of levels as well as related amplitudes extrapolated from the systematics of the resonance parameters in the resolved resonance region. By using realistic population of extrapolated levels, the fit of measured total cross section produced a continuous S-matrix function S( E ) in Reich-Moore approximation. The S-matrix function averaged over a suitable energy interval was used to obtain averaged cross sections consistent with the measured data. Transmittable formatted files (ENDF, GNDS) with LSSF=1 will consist of File 3 which are smoothed cross sections and File 2 which are average resonance parameters fitted to the energy bins defined in File 3. The capability to store probability tables is a way to show the fluctuating cross sections.

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