Thermal Neutron Scattering Improvements and Fixes for MCNP6.3 [Slides]
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Major error (10,000+ pcm) discovered when using uranium-dioxide or uranium-nitride included in ENDF80SaB2 release. Improvements are being made towards preparing the code for ENDF/B-VIII.1 (ACE) format updates. A minor error (0-10’s pcm) was discovered while working on new capability development for Lab Directed Research & Development (LDRD) project. Previously, only a single coherent or incoherent elastic channel (along with an inelastic channel) was allowed in a thermal neutron scattering evaluation and subsequent processed ACE file. Based on what is planned in ENDF/B-VIII.1 release, there will be (a) new thermal scattering evaluation(s) which uses this mixed-mode coherent and incoherent elastic scattering blocks. MCNP6.3 has been modified to be able to handle such data in the future. Some reorganization has been made in the cross section calculation (acetot, sabcol, colidn) in the presence of TSL data.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1846103
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-22-21067
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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