Fission Workshop Agenda
Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
September 10-12, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
| 8:00am | Registration |
| 8:15am | Welcome |
Experiments, 8:30am to 10:10am
| 8:30am | Fission Activities at LANSCE, R.C.Haight |
| 9:00am | Recent and Future Research Activities on Nuclear Fission at n_TOF, N.Colonna |
| 9:30am | Measurement of the 242Pu(n,f) cross-section at the CERN n_TOF facility, A.Tsinganis |
| 9:50am | Neutron-induced fission cross sections for U-233,234,236,238 up to 200 MeV, F.Tovesson |
Break, 10:10am to 10:40am
Theory, 10:40am to 12:30pm
| 10:40am | Nuclear fission as resonance-mediated conductance, G.Bertsch |
| 11:10am | Self-consistent adiabatic description of the fission: automatic production of class-II PES, N.Dubray |
| 11:30am | Microscopic Calculations of Fission Barriers in the Actinide Region, M.H.Koh |
| 11:50am | Why the finite element method could be a powerful tool to model fission dynamics, D.Regnier |
| 12:10pm | Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Density Functional Theory for Nuclear Fission, J.McDonnell (cancelled) |
Lunch, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Cross Sections, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
| 2:00pm | The Fission Time Projection Chamber, M.Heffner |
| 2:30pm | Measurements of high energy neutron standards at NFS, GANIL, France, C.Gustavsson |
| 2:50pm | Neutron-induced cross sections of actinides via the surrogate reaction method, Q.Ducasse |
| 3:10pm | Fission cross-sections evaluation based on nuclear structure models, P.Tamagno |
Break, 3:30pm to 4:00pm
Applications, 4:00pm to 5:40pm
| 4:00pm | Use of Fission Data in MCNP6, M.James |
| 4:30pm | Rapid 3-D Gamma-Ray Response Calculations, D.Mitchell |
| 5:00pm | Correlations in Prompt Neutron and Gamma Ray Emissions from Fission, S.Pozzi |
| 5:20pm | Delayed Neutron and Gamma Measurements of Special Nuclear Materials at the Royal Military College of Canada, M.Andrews |
Adjourn
Poster Session, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Programs, 9:00am to 10:10am
| 9:00am | Nuclear Fission Research at Los Alamos, M.B.Chadwick |
| 9:30am | Experimental Fission Research at the Gaerttner LINAC Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Y.Danon |
| 9:55am | Prompt Fission Neutron Spectrum Measurements Using a Gamma Tagging Method, E.Blain |
Break, 10:10am to 10:40am
Detectors/Facilities, 10:40am to 12:30pm
| 10:40am | Current and future fission research at DANCE, M.Jandel |
| 11:10am | Development of a New Tool called FALSTAFF to Study the Fission Process, C.Golabek |
| 11:30am | Fission activities at the ILL Lohengrin spectrometer: review and perspectives, C.Sage |
| 11:50am | A Neutron Source for Fission Yield studies at IGISOL-JYFLTRAP, A.Mattera |
| 12:10pm | The University of New Mexico Fission Fragment Spectrometer, A.Hecht |
Lunch, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Neutrons and Gammas, 2:00pm to 3:40pm
Break, 3:40pm to 4:10pm
Prompt and Delayed Neutrons, 4:10pm to 5:40pm
Adjourn
Conference Dinner, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Invited Speaker:
Invited Speaker:
John C. Browne, Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Friday, September 12, 2014
Yields, 8:30am to 10:10am
| 8:30am | Recent developments in fission product yield evaluation, R.Mills |
| 9:00am | The SOFIA Experiment, J.Taieb |
| 9:30am | First Results of Fission Mass Yield Measurements with SPIDER at LANSCE, K.Meierbachtol |
| 9:50am | Nucleon-Induced Fission Fragment Angular Distributions and the Reaction, L.S.Leong (cancelled) |
Break, 10:10am to 10:40am
Theory, 10:40am to 12:30pm
Lunch, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Yields / Spectroscopy, 2:00pm to 3:40pm
| 2:00pm | Progress with STEFF and Neutron-induced Fission, G.Smith |
| 2:30pm | Prompt X-Rays from Fast-Neutron-Induced Fission of 238U, R.Nelson |
| 3:00pm | Fission yield measurements at IGISOL, A.Solders |
| 3:20pm | Prompt gamma-ray spectroscopy of fission fragments, N.Fotiades |
Farewell Coffee, 3:40pm to 4:10pm
End of Workshop
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