Low-energy Neutron Mini-Workshop

Mar 21, 2011, 9:00 AM → Mar 23, 2011, 3:45 PM 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

Mon, March 21

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Welcome and practical issues

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

9:00 AM Practical issues

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

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

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

10:30 AM 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 AM How are the nuclear data formatted? A brief description of ENDF format

Slides EMendoza_ENDF_Format.pdf EMendoza_ENDF_Format.ppt

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

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

11:20 AM Needs from High Energy Collider experiments

Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides NeutronTransportAndLateralShowerShape.pdf NeutronTransportAndLateralShowerShape.pptx

11:35 AM Needs from Nuclear physics experiments

12:00 PM → 12:20 PM Coffee break

12:20 PM → 1:20 PM 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 PM 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 PM Needs of underground HEP experiments

Speaker: Dr Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNGS)

1:00 PM Discussion

1:20 PM → 2:35 PM Lunch break

2:35 PM → 3:45 PM 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

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Evaluated neutron data libraries for GEANT4

Convener: E. Mendoza

slides EMendoza_EvaluatedG4Data.pdf

4:15 PM → 6:15 PM Validation of the new neutron data libraries (I)

Convener: E. Mendoza

slides EMendoza_G4Validation.pdf

6:15 PM → 6:45 PM Summary of the day

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

9:00 PM → 11:00 PM Joint dinner

Tue, March 22

9:30 AM → 10:15 AM The low energy neutron project of LLNL/SLAC

Convener: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)

slides G4LEND_GIDI.pdf G4LEND_GIDI.pptx

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

Convener: E. Mendoza

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 11:55 AM 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 AM → 12:45 PM Identification of problems/bugs/updated and planning of the future actions

Convener: All

slides G4NeutronHPImprovements.pdf G4NeutronHPImprovements.ppt

12:45 PM → 12:55 PM Summary of necessary improvements

Convener: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

12:55 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Event generators and evaluated Protons

2:00 PM Event generators for specific processes

Speaker: Mr Alexandro Algedo

Slides Geant4_Madrid_algora.pdf

2:20 PM The G4ProtonHP project

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

2:40 PM Current status of the G4ProtonHP

Speaker: Mr Emilio Mendoza Cembranos

Slides G4ParticleHP.pdf G4ParticleHP.ppt

3:40 PM → 3:55 PM Coffee break

3:55 PM → 5:25 PM Review of the day topics: code improvements and future projects

Convener: All

Wed, March 23

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Informal discussions

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM The GEANT4 Spain initiative

Convener: Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

9:50 AM → 11:10 AM Definition of the possible validation scenarios

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

Convener: All

11:10 AM → 12:20 PM 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 PM → 1:30 PM Planning of the future actions and distribution of tasks (II)

Convener: All

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Summary of the meeting and definition of guidelines

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

2:00 PM → 3:15 PM Lunch and end of the meeting