TENDL-2015 By A.J. Koning1, D. Rochman2, J. Kopecky3, J.Ch. Sublet4, M. Fleming4, E. Bauge7, S. Hilaire7, P. Romain7, B. Morillon7, H. Duarte7, S.C van der Marck6, S. Pomp5, H. Sjostrand5, R. Forrest1, H. Henriksson8, O. Cabellos9, S. Goriely10, J. Leppanen11, H. Leeb12, A. Plompen13, and R. Mills14 1 IAEA, 2 PSI,3 JUKO Research, 4CCFE, 5Uppsala Univ., 6NRG, 7CEA,8Vattenfall, 9NEA, 10ULB, 11VTT, 12ATI, 13IRMM, 14NNL.
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TENDL-2015: (release date: 18 January 2016)
Last update: 5 October 2016
TENDL is a nuclear data library which provides the output of the TALYS nuclear model code system for direct use in both basic physics and applications. The 8th version is TENDL-2015, which is based on both default and adjusted TALYS calculations and data from other sources (previous releases can be found here: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014).
Up to 2014, TENDL was produced at NRG Petten. Since 2015, the production place has changed: TENDL-2015 is physically produced at the CEA Bruyeres-le-Chatel, and developped at PSI, the IAEA, CCFE and the CEA. Many people contributes to TENDL with the testing and processing of the files.
TENDL contains evaluations for seven types of incident particles, for all isotopes living longer than 1 second (about 2800 isotopes), up to 200 MeV, with covariances.
TENDL is not a default or shadow library. Not a single neutron evaluation is based on default calculations. With the HFR approach, all resonances are unique, following statistical rules. For important isotopes, great care was used in the evaluations.
All TENDL-2015 files are original except 15. Natural carbon is taken from JENDL-4.0 (renamed to C12) and the 14 following files are taken from ENDF/B-VII.1: 1,2,3H, 3,4He, 6,7Li, 10,11B, 9Be, 14,15N, 16O and 19F.
TENDL-2015 was this year physically produced in Petten (the Netherlands) and in Bruyeres-le-Chatel (France). A set of tools, called T6, was used to produce it. T6 stands for TALYS, TEFAL, TASMAN, TARES, TAFIS and TANES. Each code produces a part of the library. Processing tools such NJOY, CALENDF, PREPRO are also used in T6. These codes, and the processing steps are developed by A.J. Koning, D. Rochman and J.Ch. Sublet. Still, the help and feedback of the whole nuclear data, processing and user community is extremely useful. TENDL would not exist without the constructive remarks from all over the world.