Neutron Resonance Analysis School

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EC-JRC-IRMM, Geel, Belgium

The third Neutron Resonance Analysis School will be hosted at the EC-JRC-IRMM in Geel, Belgium, from the 15th to the 19th of December, 2014. Previous schools took place in 2008 and 2011. The school is organized within the FP7 project CHANDA (Solving Challenges in Nuclear Data for the Safety of European Nuclear Facilities) in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Neutron-induced nuclear reactions are important in a wide range of applications ranging from stellar nucleosynthesis, symmetry breaking effects in compound nuclei, the investigation of nuclear level densities, to applications of nuclear technology, including the transmutation of nuclear waste, accelerator driven systems and nuclear fuel cycle investigations. Accurate measurements and a careful analysis of measured nuclear data are the crucial basis for evaluated nuclear data libraries, which in their turn form the basis for technological applications.

This school is intended to provide a practical introduction to the analysis of measured neutron-induced resonance reaction data and to the processing of experimental and evaluated data. Lectures and hands-on computer exercises will be alternated. Topics include neutron-induced reactions, R-matrix theory, neutron time-of-flight measurements, uncertainty and covariance assessment, data formats (ENDF, EXFOR), use of the resonance analysis code REFIT and related topics.

A web page with further details on the event can be found here.

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