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An iron evaluation story: from TALYS model parameters to validation on the ASPIS benchmark with the Monte-Carlo code TRIPOLI-4

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  1. University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  2. IAEA, NAPC-Nuclear data section, Wagramer Str. 5, 1220 Vienna (Austria)
  3. University Paris-Saclay, CEA - Centre de Saclay, Service d'Etudes des Reacteurs et de Mathematiques Appliquees - SERMA, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  4. PSI, Forschungstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen (Switzerland)
Iron is a widespread structural material in nuclear applications. However some benchmark studies show that for many libraries, including TENDL-2019, producing good iron evaluations is still an open challenge. This work aims at improving TENDL-2019 {sup 56}Fe and {sup 54}Fe evaluations through feedbacks from experimental data and Monte Carlo results of the iron benchmark ASPIS. Part of the T6 code infrastructure was used to produce the evaluations. In the new evaluations, particular attention to resonance parameters and formalism was paid to address the importance of elastic scattering. The total inelastic scattering and inelastic continuum cross sections were shaped by modifying the input parameters of TALYS, one of the T6 codes. Additionally, it was necessary to normalise some reaction channels to those of JENDL-4.0. With the new files ASPIS results, obtained with the Monte Carlo code TRIPOLI-4, improved noticeably compared to TENDL 2019. The evaluations and parameter setting modifications are to be included into TENDL-2021. (authors)
Research Organization:
American Nuclear Society - ANS, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
OSTI ID:
23203864
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English