Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade [electronic resource]: Workshop Proceedings, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France, 26-28 September 2005 /
Nuclear Energy Agency.
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.
Bauge, E..
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2006.
With a declining number of nuclear data evaluators in the world and an increasing demand for high-quality data, there is a risk that evaluators will concentrate on producing new nuclear data to the detriment of developing new models and methods for evaluating existing data. In this context, it is essential to identify the basic physics issues that are going to be important for future nuclear data evaluation processes. At the same time, demand for new types of data, which will be needed in emerging nuclear applications, could warrant new evaluation techniques that are presently only used in the context of fundamental research and not in nuclear data production.  These proceedings present the main findings of the "Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade" workshop, which explored innovative approaches to nuclear data evaluation with the aim of opening new perspectives, building new research programmes and investigating prospects for international collaboration.
CONTENTS; Foreword; Committees, host and sponsors; Welcome address; Current status and future of nuclear model-based data evaluation; Microscopic models for nuclear data evaluation and prediction; The evaluation of atomic masses - present and future; Why we need nuclear mass data and how to obtain it; Towards a new parameterization of the Gogny force; Isospin dependent dispersive coupled channel optical model potential for actinides; Solution of multi-channel problems using MCAS for spectra and scattering cross sections
Microscopic inelastic scattering calculations with second order Born approximation.Link with quantum pre-equilibrium modelsNuclear level densities; The nuclear density of states and the role of the residual interaction; An effect of spin distribution in the pre-equilibrium process on cross section calculations; Pre-equilibrium light cluster production in nucleon-induced reactions at intermediate energies; Direct-semidirect thermal neutron capture calculations; Development of the Photonuclear Activation File (PAF): reaction cross sections,fission fragment and delayed neutrons
Experimental neutron above 20 MeV: What can be done? What should be done?Indirect methods for nuclear reaction data; Nuclear data for minor actinides: Am-Cm cases; Future experimental developments of possible importance to evaluators of nuclear data; Gamma production cross sections for inelastic scattering and (n,2n) reactions; Differential cross sections of complex particle emission reactions; Coupled discretised continuum channels calculations for nuclear data applications; Systematic study of deuteron induced reactions within the CDCC framework
Nuclear applications of inverse scattering, present ... and future?Microscopic study of the fission process; Monte Carlo simulation of the fission fragments evaporation process; Mysteries of the lightest nuclear systems; Random matrix theory in statistical analysis of resonances; The R-matrix formalism for low-energy neutron cross sections; Resonance self-shielding effect in covariance processing; Basic statistics and consistent covariances for nuclear data files; Nuclear data services: EXFOR, JANIS and the JEFF project
"NEA No. 6121."
Includes bibliographical references.
With a declining number of nuclear data evaluators in the world and an increasing demand for high-quality data, there is a risk that evaluators will concentrate on producing new nuclear data to the detriment of developing new models and methods for evaluating existing data. In this context, it is essential to identify the basic physics issues that are going to be important for future nuclear data evaluation processes. At the same time, demand for new types of data, which will be needed in emerging nuclear applications, could warrant new evaluation techniques that are presently only used in the context of fundamental research and not in nuclear data production.  These proceedings present the main findings of the "Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade" workshop, which explored innovative approaches to nuclear data evaluation with the aim of opening new perspectives, building new research programmes and investigating prospects for international collaboration.
Nuclear physics