LBNL Isotopes Project Report

Shamsuzzoha BasuniaLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley, CA 94720

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Isotopes Project Members

• M. S. Basunia (Staff)• A. M. Hurst (Staff)

• E. Browne* (Affiliate)

• L. A. Bernstein (Senior Staff, LLNL)• R. B. Firestone** (Affiliate)• C. M. Baglin**(Affiliate)

• Mark A. Trudel (Student) - XUNDL• Adriana Ureche (Student) - EGAF• Leo Kirsch (Student) – Experiment• Ivana Abramovic (Student) - Computation

• A. M. Rogers (Post doc, until March, 2014)

*Under contract with NNDC, BNL**Under contract with UCB NE - since Dec, 2014

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UCB ComponentData Evaluation for Applied Nuclear Science (DEANS)

Activities:

• ENSDF Responsibility: 37 mass chains: 21-30, 59, 81, 83, 90-93, 166-171, 184, 186,

187, 191-193, 210-217

• XUNDL Contributing since FY 2014

• EGAF New NA-22 (nonproliferation) initiative at LBNL

Aligned with Correlated Fission Data project at LLNL+LANL (n,) measurements with enriched targets. Statistical model calculations

, 0, structure, decay data, Sn

• Experimental effort: Targeted experiment, statistical model study of level density and photon

strength. Facilities: 88” cyclotron, LBNL; Neutron Generator, UCB; Guided neutron

beam in Budapest, Hungary, FRM, Germany, and Cyclotron facility at the University of Oslo

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Evaluation/Compilation

• ENSDF (since last NSDD meeting)

A=21, R.B. Firestone, In ENSDF A=28, M. S. Basunia, Nuclear Data Sheets, 114, 1189, 2013 A=91, C.M. Baglin, Nuclear Data Sheets 114, 1293, 2013 A=92, C.M. Baglin, Nuclear Data Sheets 113, 2187, 2012 A=192, C.M. Baglin, Nuclear Data Sheets 113, 1871, 2012 A=210, M.S. Basunia, Nuclear Data Sheets, 121, 561, 2014 A=211*, C.M. Baglin, et. al., Nuclear Data Sheets 114, 661, 2013 93(Br, Kr, Rb) and 186Po (Baglin)

• In Progress: A=26 (Hurst and Basunia)

• In production process: A=22 (Basunia), A=170, A=171, A=183 (Baglin)

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XUNDL/EGAF

• XUNDL Compiled 53 datasets from 28 articles and thesis Mark Trudel from UCB - since Nov, 2014 New students will be recruited this year

• EGAF (Detailed update later) 93Nb(n,) – Danyal Turkoglu (OSU), M. S. Basunia 139La(n,) – Adriana Ureche (UCB), A. M. Hurst 185Re(n,) – Andrew Lerch (US Army), A. M. Hurst, J. J. Carroll 242Pu(n,) – Christoph Genreith (Jülich GmbH), A. M. Hurst

16O(n,), 54,56,57,58Fe(n,) – R. B. Firestone, M. Krticka 180W(n,) – A. M. Hurst

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Experiment/Facility Development

• 88-Inch Cyclotron, LBNL– Neutron production from deuteron breakup,

Time-of-flight– 56Fe(n,n’) – CIELO (Collaborative International

Evaluated Library Organization)• 2nd run (March, 2015): coincidence

measurements with large HPGe detectors: Leo Kirsch, Lee Bernstein

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• DD Neutron Generator, NE-UCB– >1011 n/s, En ~2.5 MeV

Other activities:

• Workshop organization:– Nuclear Data Needs and Capabilities for Applications, May 27-29, 2015,

Berkeley, CA• Energy• National Security• Isotope Production, and • Industrial Applications

• Code development – A. M. Hurst– Python translator to convert ENSDF to XML, RIPL– PABS (Particle Absolute Branching) – read directly from ENSDF– Calculated beta decay branching ratio and uncertainties derived from -decay

scheme – E. Browne, Nucl. Instru. Meth. Phys. Res. A265, 541, 1988.• Baghdad Atlas compilation/evaluation

– Completed compilation of (n,n’) data into searchable SQL database

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Publications

– Experiment/EGAF• 39,40,41K(n,g) – R. B. Firestone et al., Phys. Rev. C 87, 024605 2013.• 23Na(n,) – R. B. Firestone et al., Phys Rev C 89, 014617, 2014• 182,183,184,186W(n,) – A. M. Hurst et. al., Phys Rev C 89, 014606, 2014

– revised data for EXFOR, - updated RIPL

• 155,157Gd(n,) – H. Choi et. al., Nucl. Sci. Eng. 117, 219, 2014– ND 2013 proceedings:

• EGAF: Measurement and Analysis… – R. B. Firestone et al., NDS 119, 79, 2014.• 180W(n,) – A. M. Hurst et al., NDS 119, 91, 2014• 151,153Eu(n,) – M. S. Basunia et al., NDS 119, 88, 2014.

– Low energy neutron measurements in HED plasmas using the NIF – L. A. Bernstein et al., Plasma Fusion Res. 9, 4404101, 2014.

– Co-authored: Other 15 papers/conference proceedings/meeting reports

– Gamma Ray Generator, Richard B. Firestone and Jani Reijonen, Patent US8737570 B2 (2014).

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Future Plans

• ENSDF– Training of new evaluators

• XUNDL– Student participation seems promising

• EGAF– Targeted evaluation: Experiment with enriched targets and statistical model

calculations• Experiments

– 55Mn(d,p)56Mn at the Cyclotron facility, University of Oslo, for level density studies

– Workshop on Nuclear Data Needs and Capabilities for Applications• Bay Area Nuclear Data Group (BANG)?

– LBNL, UCB, LLNL

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Collaborators

• LLNL – B. Sleaford, N. Summers, J. Escher • UCB - Nuclear Engineering – K. van Bibber, J. Vujic, K.-N. Leung, B. Goldblum, Jay James • Budapest Reactor – T. Belgya, L. Szentmiklosi • Garching FRM-II Reactor – Zs. Revay, P. Kudejova, C. Genreith • Charles University, Prague – M. Krticka, F. Becvar • University of Oslo - S. Siem, M. Guttormsen• TransActinide Nuclear Data Evaluation and Measurement (TANDEM) –

M. Rossbach, C. Genreith (Jülich Forschungszentrum) • Seoul National University, Korea – H. Choi • U.S. Army Research Laboratory – J. J. Carroll• Air Force Institute of Technology – J. W. McClory, A. G. Lerch

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