The art of collecting experimental data internationally: EXFOR, CINDA and the NRDC network

Abstract

Abstract. The world-wide network of nuclear reaction data centres (NRDC) has, for about 40 years, provided data services to the scientific community. This network covers all types of nuclear reaction data, including neutroninduced, charged-particle-induced, and photonuclear data, used in a wide range of applications, such as fission reactors, accelerator driven systems, fusion facilities, nuclear medicine, materials analysis, environmental monitoring, and basic research. The now 13 nuclear data centres included in the NRDC are dividing the efforts of compilation and distribution for particular types of reactions and/or geographic regions all over the world. A central activity of the network is the collection and compilation of experimental nuclear reaction data and the related bibliographic information in the EXFOR and CINDA databases. Many of the individual data centres also distribute other types of nuclear data information, including evaluated data libraries, nuclear structure and decay data, and nuclear data reports. The network today ensures the world-wide transfer of information and coordinated evolution of an important source of nuclear data for current and future nuclear applications.

Modern Nuclear Data Evaluation with the TALYS Code System

“…not adjusted for new standard informationetc.) from the EXFOR database [94]. The distribution probability can then be chosen between, equiprobable, Normal or other.…”

Definitions of radioisotope thick target yields

“…Experimental excitation functions and thick target yields for charged-particle induced radioisotope production have been compiled in the experimental nuclear reaction data library (EXFOR) [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] from more than 800 experimental works by the International Network of Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (NRDC) under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In order to improve the completeness of EXFOR, the IAEA Nuclear Data Section (NDS) and Hokkaido University Nuclear Reaction Data Centre (JCPRG) have compared experimental works in EXFOR with those in the Landolt-Börnstein compilation [23] for proton, deuteron, triton, helium-3 and alpha induced reactions, and the Data Centres are compiling the articles still missing in EXFOR [15].…”

Recent upgrades to the nuclear data tool JANIS

“…The program contains the latest evaluated data libraries: JEFF-3.1, ENDF/B-VII, JENDL-3.3 and FENDL-2.1. Emphasis has been put in including the complete EXFOR database [2] in the original format, previous versions were using a Fig. 1.…”