The University of Bucharest (UB) is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Romania, and enjoys a considerable national and international prestige. Its various schools are well known for their activities in all important scientific and academic domains. There are over 50 institutes, departments and research centres functioning within UB, most of which work in collaboration with similar centres in other countries.
The Faculty of Physics was founded in 1967 as an independent branch of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, one century and a half old center of traditions in basic and technical science, teaching and research. The Department of Atomic and Nuclear Physics offers Master and PhD. programs in: Atomic and Molecular Interactions, Astrophysics, Nuclear Interactions, Elementary Particles, and Applied Nuclear Physics. The teaching staff is recognised internationally for their research activities and collaborations with prestigious institutions in the field (NEA, IAEA, IRMM, PTB, LNHB, BNL, CERN, GSI, ...).
Role and main tasks
Within CHANDA project, UB will provide theoretical support for obtaining accurate data relevant for the reactor safety: neutron-induced fission cross sections, neutron capture cross sections, neutron elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections (WP8).
Scientific and technical personnel involved
- Mihaela Sin: Associate Professor at the Department of Atomic and Nuclear Physics of the Faculty of Physics since 1989. She is specialized in nuclear models and data evaluation. Along the years, she gave courses and seminars on Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Reaction Models and Fission, Nuclear Data Evaluation, Applications of Nuclear Technologies for undergraduate and master students, being involved also in post-graduate programs of training in Nuclear Radiation and Isotope Applications. Together with her students and co-workers, she was involved in several national research contracts, but most of her research activities in the nuclear data field have been carried on in collaboration with the Nuclear Data Section of IAEA and the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. In the last years she has been participating directly or through support activities in five IAEA Coordinated Research Projects. As member of the developers team of the nuclear reaction code EMPIRE is co-author of evaluations adopted by ENDF/B-VII, RIPL-3 and other specialized nuclear data libraries. Presently she is also involved in the FP7 project Accurate Nuclear Data for Nuclear Energy Sustainability contributing to new and accurate evaluations of neutron reaction data for U-238 and Am-241.