Technical Meeting on Neutron Data Standards

Name: Technical Meeting on Neutron Data Standards
Start: 2026-01-26T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-30T17:00:00+01:00
Location: VIC, Vienna

26 Jan 2026, 09:00 → 30 Jan 2026, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

C0343 (VIC, Vienna)

C0343

VIC, Vienna

Description

The purpose of this technical meeting is to review ongoing activities related to the Neutron Data Standards and to discuss and coordinate required actions towards the next release of the Neutron Data Standards.

Monday 26 January
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Session
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome address 10m
    
    Speaker: Arjan KONING (IAEA)
  - 09:10
    
    Meeting logistics 15m
    
    Speaker: Georg SCHNABEL (IAEA)
  - 09:25
    
    Neutron Standards - The Evolution of Methods with Time 1h
    
    Speaker: Allan Carlson
    
    Neutron Standards.pptx
  - 10:25
    
    Roadmap for the next standards release 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Roberto Mario Capote Noy (IAEA NAPC-NDS)
    
    Capote-STD-Jan26.pptx
- 13:30 → 17:50
  Session
  - 13:30
    
    A study on the impact of different evaluation approaches on results 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Georg SCHNABEL (IAEA)
    
    TM-NDS-Schnabel.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    T-2 light element evaluations for neutron cross section standards 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Mark Paris (LANL/Theoretical Divison)
    
    paris-t2-2026-stds-jan-nn-7li-13c.pdf
Tuesday 27 January
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Session
  - 09:00
    
    Pu(n,f) cross section: TPC data and criticality benchmarks 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Andre Sieverding
  - 10:30
    
    New measurement results of differential and angle-integrated cross sections for the 10B(n,a)7Li reaction from 0.3 eV to 3.0 MeV at CSNS Back-n 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Guohui Zhang
- 13:30 → 19:10
  Session
  - 13:30
    
    Cross-section measurements of the 197Au(n,g) reaction at the CSNS Back-n White Neutron Facility 2h
    
    Speaker: Wei JIANG
  - 15:30
    
    Statistical invariants in the least squares method 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Sergej Badikov
    
    Badikov Statistical invariants TM 260126 240126.pdf
Wednesday 28 January
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Session
  - 09:00
    
    The measurement of natB(n,tot) and 10B(n,a) cross section at thermal region at CSNS Back-n 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Yonghao Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  - 10:30
    
    Updates to the GMA database and 252Cf evaluations for the next release of the IAEA Neutron Data Standards (part 1) 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Denise Neudecker (LANL)
    
    Standards_2026_Neudecker_LA-UR-26-20484.pdf
- 13:30 → 17:00
  Session
  - 13:30
    
    Updates to the GMA database and 252Cf evaluations for the next release of the IAEA Neutron Data Standards (part 2) 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Denise Neudecker (LANL)
  - 15:00
    
    Update of the Thermal Neutron Constant Database 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Gilles Noguere (CEA Cadarache)
    
    TNC_noguere_STD2026_v1.pdf
Thursday 29 January
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Session
  - 10:30
    
    Comments on the Hansell measurements of nu-bar for the spontaneous fission of 252Cf 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Allan Carlson
    
    Hansell experiment 2.pdf
- 13:30 → 17:00
  
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Friday 30 January
- 09:00 → 12:00
  
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