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Fleming, M.*; Chadwick, M.*; Brown, D.*; Capote, R.*; Ge, Z.*; Herman, M.*; Ignatyuk, A.*; Ivanova, T.*; Iwamoto, Osamu; Koning, A.*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 239, p.15003_1 - 15003_5, 2020/09
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：94.48(Nuclear Science & Technology)Dupont, E.*; Bossant, M.*; Capote, R.*; Carlson, A. D.*; Danon, Y.*; Fleming, M.*; Ge, Z.*; Harada, Hideo; Iwamoto, Osamu; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 239, p.15005_1 - 15005_4, 2020/09
Times Cited Count：19 Percentile：99.59(Nuclear Science & Technology)Trkov, A.*; Griffin, P. J.*; Simakov, S. P.*; Greenwood, L. R.*; Zolotarev, K. I.*; Capote, R.*; Aldama, D. L.*; Chechev, V.*; Destouches, C.*; Kahler, A. C.*; et al.
Nuclear Data Sheets, 163, p.1 - 108, 2020/01
Times Cited Count：129 Percentile：99.74(Physics, Nuclear)The version II of the International Reactor Dosimetry and Fusion File (IRDFF-II) has been released as a consistent set of nuclear data for fission and fusion neutron metrology applications up to 60 MeV neutron energy. The library is intended to support: (a) applications in research reactors; (b) safety and regulatory applications in the nuclear power generation in commercial fission reactors; and c) material damage studies in support of the research and development of advanced fusion concepts. The paper describes the contents of the library, documents the thorough verification process used in its preparation, and provides an extensive set of validation data gathered from a wide range of neutron benchmark fields. The new library is expected to become the international reference in neutron metrology for multiple applications.
Kawano, Toshihiko*; Cho, Y. S.*; Dimitriou, P.*; Filipescu, D.*; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Plujko, V.*; Tao, X.*; Utsunomiya, Hiroaki*; Varlamov, V.*; Xu, R.*; et al.
Nuclear Data Sheets, 163, p.109 - 162, 2020/01
Times Cited Count：120 Percentile：99.69(Physics, Nuclear)Chadwick, M. B.*; Capote, R.*; Trkov, A.*; Herman, M. W.*; Brown, D. A.*; Hale, G. M.*; Kahler, A. C.*; Talou, P.*; Plompen, A. J.*; Schillebeeckx, P.*; et al.
Nuclear Data Sheets, 148, p.189 - 213, 2018/02
Times Cited Count：76 Percentile：97.98(Physics, Nuclear)The CIELO collaboration has studied neutron cross sections on nuclides that significantly impact criticality in nuclear facilities - 
U, 
U, 
Pu, 
Fe, 
O and 
H - with the aim of improving the accuracy of the data and resolving previous discrepancies in our understanding. This multi-laboratory pilot project, coordinated via the OECD/NEA Working Party on Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) Subgroup 40 with support also from the IAEA, has motivated experimental and theoretical work and led to suites of new evaluated libraries that accurately reflect measured data and also perform well in integral simulations of criticality. This report summarizes our results and outlines plans for the next phase of this collaboration.
Capote, R.*; Hilaire, S.*; Iwamoto, Osamu; Kawano, Toshihiko*; Sin, M.*
EPJ Web of Conferences, 146, p.12034_1 - 12034_4, 2017/09
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：93.89(Nuclear Science & Technology)Chadwick, M. B.*; Capote, R.*; Trkov, A.*; Kahler, A. C.*; Herman, M. W.*; Brown, D. A.*; Hale, G. M.*; Pigni, M.*; Dunn, M.*; Leal, L.*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 146, p.02001_1 - 02001_9, 2017/09
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：96.56(Nuclear Science & Technology)The CIELO collaboration has studied neutron cross sections on nuclides (O, Fe, 
U and Pu) that significantly impact criticality in nuclear technologies with the aim of improving the accuracy of the data and resolving previous discrepancies in our understanding. This multi-laboratory pilot project, coordinated via the OECD/NEA Working Party on Evaluation Cooperation (WPEC) Subgroup 40 with support also from the IAEA, has motivated experimental and theoretical work and led to suites of new evaluated libraries that accurately reflect measured data and also perform well in integral simulations of criticality.
Carlson, A. D.*; Pronyaev, V.*; Hale, G. M.*; Zhenpeng, C.*; Capote, R.*; Dur
n, I.*; Hambsch, F.-J.*; Kawano, Toshihiko*; Kunieda, Satoshi; 13 of others*
EPJ Web of Conferences, 146, p.02025_1 - 02025_4, 2017/09
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：88.83(Nuclear Science & Technology)Evaluations are being done for the 
H(n,n), 
Li(n,t), 
B(n,
), B(n,
), C(n,n), 
Au(n,
), U(n,f) and U(n,f) standard cross sections. Evaluations are also being done for data that are not traditional standards including: the Au(n,) cross section at energies below where it is considered a standard; reference cross sections for prompt -ray production in fast neutron-induced reactions; reference cross sections for very high energy fission cross sections; the U thermal neutron fission spectrum and the 
Cf spontaneous fission neutron spectrum and the thermal constants.
H, O, Fe, U, and PuChadwick, M. B.*; Dupont, E.*; Bauge, E.*; Blokhin, A.*; Bouland, O.*; Brown, D. A.*; Capote, R.*; Carlson, A. D.*; Danon, Y.*; De Saint Jean, C.*; et al.
Nuclear Data Sheets, 118, p.1 - 25, 2014/04
Times Cited Count：110 Percentile：98.39(Physics, Nuclear)CIELO (Collaborative International Evaluated Library Organization) provides a new working paradigm to facilitate evaluated nuclear reaction data advances. It brings together experts from across the international nuclear reaction data community to identify and document discrepancies among existing evaluated data libraries, measured data, and model calculation interpretations, and aims to make progress in reconciling these discrepancies to create more accurate ENDF-formatted files. The focus will initially be on a small number of the highest-priority isotopes, namely H, O, Fe, U, and Pu. This paper identifies discrepancies between various evaluations of the highest priority isotopes. The evaluated data for these materials in the existing nuclear data libraries are reviewed, and some integral properties are given. The paper summarizes a program of nuclear science and computational work needed to create the new CIELO nuclear data evaluations.
Chadwick, M. B.*; Herman, M.*; Oblo
insk
, P.*; Dunn, M. E.*; Danon, Y.*; Kahler, A. C.*; Smith, D. L.*; Pritychenko, B.*; Arbanas, G.*; Arcilla, R.*; et al.
Nuclear Data Sheets, 112(12), p.2887 - 2996, 2011/12
Times Cited Count：2260 Percentile：99.99(Physics, Nuclear)The ENDF/B-VII.1 library is our latest recommended evaluated nuclear data file for use in nuclear science and technology applications, and incorporates advances made in the five years since the release of ENDF/B-VII.0. These advances focus on neutron cross sections, covariances, fission product yields and decay data, and represent work by the US Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) in nuclear data evaluation that utilizes developments in nuclear theory, modeling, simulation, and experiment. It features extension of covered nuclei, covariance data for 190 nuclei, R-matrix analyses of neutron reactions on light nuclei, updates for some medium-heavy and actinoid nuclei, etc. Criticality benchmark tests with a transport simulation code MCNP shows improved performances.
Kodeli, I.*; Trkov, A.*; Capote, R.*; Nagaya, Yasunobu; Maslov, V.*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 610(2), p.540 - 552, 2009/11
Times Cited Count：27 Percentile：83.94(Instruments & Instrumentation)The prompt fission neutron spectra covariance matrices of U, U and Pu were evaluated using the Monte Carlo method for two empirical spectra formulations, Watt and Kornilov, and compared to the existing evaluations such as JENDL-3.3. The fission spectra, together with the covariance matrices and the methods for the calculation of the corresponding sensitivity profiles were validated on several applications, including shielding (VENUS-3 benchmark, pressure vessel dosimetry) as well as on fast and thermal reactor systems (KRITZ and SNEAK critical experiments). A new set of parameters for a Kornilov model is proposed that improve both benchmark performance and the agreement with recently measured differential spectra. A recommendation to use constrained sensitivity coefficients was confirmed for the case of the fission spectrum induced uncertainty in the effective multiplication factor and in the detector responses, in order to assure the proper normalisation of the corresponding covariance matrices.
Chiba, Satoshi; Soukhovitski, E. Sh.*; Capote, R.*; Quesada, J.*
Proceedings of 2009 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '09) (CD-ROM), p.9172_1 - 9172_7, 2009/05
Coupled-channels optical model code OPTMAN is widely applied to analyze experimental nucleon-nucleus interaction data. Sophisticated dispersive optical potential forms had been included in the code along with the possibility to calculate direct excitations of isobar analog states in (p,n) reactions. The latter along with accounting of the proton "effective" energy decrease due to Coulomb repulsion by nuclei, leads to full Lane-consistent optical potential. Such approach had been successfully applied to nucleon-nucleus interaction reaction analyses of experimental data for several nuclei up to 200 MeV incident energies.
Soukhovitski, E.*; Chiba, Satoshi; Capote, R.*; Quesada, J.*; Kunieda, Satoshi; Morogovskij, G.*
JAEA-Data/Code 2008-025, 55 Pages, 2008/12
JAEA-Data-Code-2008-025.pdf:1.8MB
A coupled-channel code to calculate nuclear cross sections, OPTMAN, has been improved after OPTMAN version 8 was published as JAERI-Data/Code 2005-002. The most important addition is the inclusion of dispersive relationships between imaginary and real parts of the optical potential within a Lane consistent formalism. The obtained CCOM potentials allow for the description of nucleon induced reactions up to 200 MeV, including (p,n) reactions with excitation of isobaric analog states. Relativistic corrections consistent with those used in the ECIS06 code are also added.
Capote, R.*; Chiba, Satoshi; Soukhovitskij, E. Sh.*; Quesada, J. M.*; Bauge, E.*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 45(4), p.333 - 340, 2008/04
Times Cited Count：49 Percentile：93.41(Nuclear Science & Technology)A global dispersive coupled-channel optical model (DCCOM) potential is proposed to describe neutron and proton interactions with actinide nuclei at 0.001 to 200 MeV range. A linear dependence of the geometrical parameters on mass number 
is employed, and deformation parameters are adjusted for each nucleus to extend the DCCOM determined previously for U and 
Th to neighboring nuclei, 
Am, 
Pu and 
U. Fitted deformations are in reasonable agreement with those derived theoretically. The present DCCOM is capable of describing not only the cross sections but also the total cross section differences between Th and U up to 200 MeV within experimental uncertainty, verifying that the isovector potential and assumed geometrical parameters are adequate to describe the minute difference of the cross sections of actinide nuclei and its energy dependence.
Quesada, J. M.*; Capote, R.*; Soukhovitskii, E. Sh.*; Chiba, Satoshi
Physical Review C, 76(5), p.057602_1 - 057602_3, 2007/11
Times Cited Count：25 Percentile：80.66(Physics, Nuclear)A previously derived dispersive coupled-channel optical model potential for nucleon scattering on Th and U nuclei has been challenged against experimental data on quasi-elastic (
) scattering to the isobaric analog states of corresponding target nuclei. The Lane potential derived from the isovector term of the dispersive coupled-channel optical model potential has been shown to approximately reproduce available experimental differential cross-section data for the quasi-elastic () reaction; therefore the approximated Lane consistency of that potential has been established.
Ar nuclei with excitation of the 2
(1.46 MeV) and 3
(3.68 MeV) collective levels for incident energies of 25.1, 32.5, and 40.7 MeVOkumusoglu, N. T.*; Gorur, F. K.*; Birchall, J.*; Soukhovitskij, E. Sh.*; Capote, R.*; Quesada, J. M.*; Chiba, Satoshi
Physical Review C, 75(3), p.034616_1 - 034616_10, 2007/03
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：35.07(Physics, Nuclear)Elastic and inelastic scattering of unpolarized and polarized protons by Ar nuclei for incident energies between 20 and 50 MeV has been studied by reanalyzing experimental scattering spectra for the 2 (1.46 MeV) and 3 (3.68 MeV) levels in the angular range 30
- 160 for incident protons of energies of 25.1, 32.5, and 40.7 MeV. An isospin dependent soft-rotator coupled channels optical model with the potential containing a dispersive term with a nonlocal contribution is used to analyze the data.
-only isotope 
Pb from 1 eV to 440 keVDomingo-Pardo, C.*; Abbondanno, U.*; Aerts, G.*; 
lvarez, H.*; Alvarez-Velarde, F.*; Andriamonje, S.*; Andrzejewski, J.*; Assimakopoulos, P.*; Audouin, L.*; Badurek, G.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 75(1), p.015806_1 - 015806_9, 2007/01
Times Cited Count：37 Percentile：87.78(Physics, Nuclear)The neutron capture cross section of Pb has been measured at the CERN n_TOF installation with high resolution in the energy range from 1 eV to 440 keV. In the interval between 100 keV and 440 keV we report the average cross section. The background in the entire energy range was reliably determined from the measurement of a 
Pb sample. We obtain a Maxwellian average capture cross section for Pb at 
= 30 keV of 79(3) mb, in agreement with previous experiments. However our cross section at = 5 keV is about 35 % larger than the values reported so far. The implications of the new cross section for the -process abundance contributions in the Pb/Bi region are discussed.
PbDomingo-Pardo, C.*; Abbondanno, U.*; Aerts, G.*; lvarez, H.*; Alvarez-Velarde, F.*; Andriamonje, S.*; Andrzejewski, J.*; Assimakopoulos, P.*; Audouin, L.*; Badurek, G.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 74(5), p.055802_1 - 055802_6, 2006/11
Times Cited Count：30 Percentile：82.14(Physics, Nuclear)The radiative neutron capture cross section of Pb has been measured at the CERN n_TOF facility using the pulse height weighting technique in the resoleved region. The measurement has been performed with an optimized setup of two 
scintillation detectors, which allowed us to reduce scattered neutron backgrounds down to a negligible level. Resonance parameters have been determined for 16 resonances by means of an R-matrix analysis in the neutron energy range from 3 keV to 320 keV. Good agreement with previous measurements was found at low neutron energies, whereas substantial discrepancies appear beyond 45 keV. With the present results, we obtain an s-process contribution of 77
8 % to the solar abundance of Pb.
BiDomingo-Pardo, C.*; Abbondanno, U.*; Aerts, G.*; lvarez, H.*; Alvarez-Velarde, F.*; Andriamonje, S.*; Andrzejewski, J.*; Assimakopoulos, P.*; Audouin, L.*; Badurek, G.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 74(2), p.025807_1 - 025807_10, 2006/08
Times Cited Count：48 Percentile：90.23(Physics, Nuclear)The neutron capture cross section of Bi has been measured at the CERN n_TOF facility by employing the pulse-height-weighting technique. Improvements over previous measurements are mainly because of an optimized detection system, which led to a practically negligible neutron sensitivity. Because Bi is the last stable isotope in the reaction path of the stellar s-process, the Maxwellian averaged capture cross section is important for the recycling of the reaction flow by alpha decays. In the relevant stellar range of thermal energies between = 5 and 8 keV our new capture rate is about 16% higher than the presently accepted value used for nucleosynthesis calculations. The present cross section measurement is also of relevance for the design of accelerator driven systems based on a liquid metal Pb/Bi spallation target.
Th measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN in the unresolved resonance region up to 1 MeVAerts, G.*; Abbondanno, U.*; lvarez, H.*; Alvarez-Velarde, F.*; Andriamonje, S.*; Andrzejewski, J.*; Assimakopoulos, P.*; Audouin, L.*; Badurek, G.*; Baumann, P.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 73(5), p.054610_1 - 054610_10, 2006/05
We have measured the neutron capture reaction yield of Th at the neutron tim-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN in the energy range from 1 eV to 1 MeV. The average capture cross section has been extracted in the energy range from 4 keV up to 1 MeV with an overall accuracy better than 4 %. An independent IAEA evaluation shows good agreement with the data.
