Covariances of evaluated nuclear cross section data for 232Th, 180,182,183,184,186W and 55Mn

Nuclear Data Sheets

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3098-3119

  Trkov, A ^a   Capote, R ^b   Soukhovitskii, E Sh ^c   Leal, L C ^d   Sin, M ^e   Kodeli, I ^a   Muir, D W ^f  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR POWER AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH SOSNY   (Belarus)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS;

CODE SYSTEM; COVARIANCE MATRICES; CROSS SECTION DATA; DATA EVALUATION; MODELING PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR CROSS SECTIONS; NUCLEAR DATA; NUCLEAR MODEL CALCULATION; RANDOM SAMPLING; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 84855948185     PISSN: 00903752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nds.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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