HINDAS A European Nuclear Data Program for Accelerator-Driven Systems

Abstract

In the HINDAS program, nuclear data in the 20-2000 MeV range are evaluated by means of a combination of nuclear tmodels and well-selected intermediate- and high-energy experiments. A panoply of European accelerators is utilized to provide complete sets of experimental data for iron, lead and uranium over a large energy range. Nuclear model codes are being improved and validated against these new experimental data. This should result in enhanced ENDF-formatted data libraries up to 200 MeV, and cross sections for high-energy transport codes above 200 MeV. The impact of the new data libraries and high-energy models will be directly tested on some important parameters of an accelerator-driven system (ADS). Here, we report the recent progress of the various experimental and theoretical activities in HINDAS.

Keywords:

• intermediate energy
• measurement program
• ADS
• 20-2000 MeV
• double-differential
• elastic
• residual production cross section
• multiplicity
• inverse kinematics
• nuclear models
• TALYS
• INC
• data library