Low-energy Neutron Mini-Workshop

21 Mar 2011, 09:00 → 23 Mar 2011, 15:45 Europe/Zurich

CIEMAT

Practical issues

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Audioconference details:

Start Date: 3/21/2011 10:00 AM, Europe/Zurich

End Date: 3/23/2011 10:00 AM, Europe/Zurich

Duration: 9:00

Recurrence: Every day from 3/21/2011 to 3/23/2011

Slides

• G4LEND_GIDI.pdf
• G4LEND_GIDI.pptx
• Status_of_Neutron_High_Precision_Models.pdf
• Status_of_Neutron_High_Precision_Models.pptx

Monday 21 March

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome and practical issues

Conveners: Daniel Cano Ott (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT)), Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

09:00 Practical issues

Speaker: Daniel Cano Ott (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

10:30 → 11:20 Evaluated nuclear (neutron) data

Convener: Daniel Cano Ott (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

10:30 What are evaluated nuclear (neutron) data?

Speaker: Daniel Cano Ott (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

Slides D_Cano_Ott_Evaluated_neutron_cross_section_libraries.pdf D_Cano_Ott_Evaluated_neutron_cross_section_libraries.ppt

10:50 How are the nuclear data formatted? A brief description of ENDF format

Slides EMendoza_ENDF_Format.pdf EMendoza_ENDF_Format.ppt

11:20 → 12:00 Nuclear Data needs (I): particle and nuclear physics

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:20 Needs from High Energy Collider experiments

Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides NeutronTransportAndLateralShowerShape.pdf NeutronTransportAndLateralShowerShape.pptx

11:35 Needs from Nuclear physics experiments

12:00 → 12:20 Coffee break

12:20 → 13:20 Nuclear Data needs (II)

Underground Physics - Medical Physics

Conveners: Daniel Cano Ott (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT)), Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

12:20 Some issues from medical applications

Speakers: Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno), Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

12:40 Needs of underground HEP experiments

Speaker: Dr Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

13:00 Discussion

13:20 → 14:35 Lunch break

14:35 → 15:45 Recent developments made for GEANT4 G4NeutronHP and Validation process of the standard G4NDL libraries distributed with GEANT4: methodology used

Convener: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

slides Status_of_Neutron_High_Precision_Models.pdf Status_of_Neutron_High_Precision_Models.pptx

15:45 → 16:15 Evaluated neutron data libraries for GEANT4

Convener: E. Mendoza

slides EMendoza_EvaluatedG4Data.pdf

16:15 → 18:15 Validation of the new neutron data libraries (I)

Convener: E. Mendoza

slides EMendoza_G4Validation.pdf

18:15 → 18:45 Summary of the day

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

21:00 → 23:00 Joint dinner

Tuesday 22 March

09:30 → 10:15 The low energy neutron project of LLNL/SLAC

Convener: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

slides G4LEND_GIDI.pdf G4LEND_GIDI.pptx

10:15 → 11:00 Necessary improvements of G4NeutronHP for the new libraries. Resolved and open questions.

Convener: E. Mendoza

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 11:55 Low energy model improvements

Convener: Jose Manuel Quesada Molina (Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)

slides JMQuesada_Overview_of_low_energy_hadronic_models_in_Geant4.pdf

11:55 → 12:45 Identification of problems/bugs/updated and planning of the future actions

Convener: All

slides G4NeutronHPImprovements.pdf G4NeutronHPImprovements.ppt

12:45 → 12:55 Summary of necessary improvements

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

12:55 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 Event generators and evaluated Protons

14:00 Event generators for specific processes

Speaker: Mr Alexandro Algedo

Slides Geant4_Madrid_algora.pdf

14:20 The G4ProtonHP project

Speaker: Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

14:40 Current status of the G4ProtonHP

Speaker: Mr Emilio Mendoza Cembranos

Slides G4ParticleHP.pdf G4ParticleHP.ppt

15:40 → 15:55 Coffee break

15:55 → 17:25 Review of the day topics: code improvements and future projects

Convener: All

Wednesday 23 March

09:00 → 09:30 Informal discussions

09:30 → 09:50 The GEANT4 Spain initiative

Convener: Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

09:50 → 11:10 Definition of the possible validation scenarios

• In house validation
• Creation of a group of advanced users
• Participation to Internation benchmarks

Convener: All

11:10 → 12:20 Planning of the future actions and distribution of tasks:

• Code development and integration
• Code maintenance
• Neutron library maintenance
• User support (beginners/advanced)
• Code/data validation
• Integration in GEANT4
• Dissemination

Convener: All

12:20 → 13:30 Planning of the future actions and distribution of tasks (II)

Convener: All

13:30 → 14:00 Summary of the meeting and definition of guidelines

Conveners: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN), Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

14:00 → 15:15 Lunch and end of the meeting