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07 February 2008
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Revised Manuals

In fulfilment of Action A17 of the last NRDC meeting, the EXFOR Exchange Formats
Manual (IAEA-NDS-207) and the LEXFOR Manual (IAEA-NDS-208) have been updated. Inaddition, a minor revision of the Dictionary Manual (IAEA-NDS-213), which had been issued inAugust 2007, was made also. The revised manuals are available for download from the internal
NRDC web page http://www-nds.iaea.org/nrdc-int/
A summary of the main changes made is given below.
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Summary on Manual Updates done in February 2008
Main changes (not complete list):LEXFOR•••••••

Added explanations to Isomeric States, Spectrum Average, Status, Target
Nucleus
Rewrote much of Institute entry (using country code; and compilation
responsibilities)
Improved entry on Independent and Cumulative Data and added explanationof Supracumulative cross section
Added some physics clarifications and additional quantity type received byOtsuka (in chapters Single-Level Resonance Parameters / Resonance Strength,
Center-of-Mass System, Differential Data / momentum transfer distributions)
Moved explanation of covariance file format from LEXFOR to Manual
Many small editorial and typographical corrections collected since last
revision (including those received by Otsuka and Taova)
Added Preface

All changes are marked with a vertical bar in the margin
EXFOR Exchange Formats Manual•••••Introduced changes and additions from past NRDC meetings. Some of themore significant changes are:o Chapter 1: permitted character set; new CICs; col 80
o Chapter 6: breaking of REACTION codes; isomer extension for SF2
o Chapter 7: additions to keywords DETECTOR, MONIT-REF,REFERENCE
Rewrote most of Chapter 8
Moved explanation of covariance file format from LEXFOR to Manual
Many small editorial and typographical corrections collected since last
revision (including those received by Otsuka and Taova)
Added Preface

All changes are marked with a vertical bar in the margin
Dictionary Manual••••Correction of description of Dict. 213 (p.24)
Corrected definition of flags in Dict. 33 (p.9)
Changed description of Dict. 24 (p.20) according to Conclusion C11 /NRDC2007 (Removal of plotting flag 5 = one of multiple variables)(Note: change introduced in Manual before actual dictionary update)
Various typographical and linguistic improvements as requested by A. Nichols