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This workshop offers an opportunity to overview nuclear reaction data measurements, compilation, evaluation and applications, gain practical experience with nuclear reaction databases, and become familiar with the compilation process for addition of newly measured data to the EXFOR library.

This is the first Joint ICTP-IAEA workshop covering the nuclear reaction data flow from experiments to application including compilation and evaluation. The participants will be guided through EXFOR retrieval tools and will be involved in compilation of data measured in their institutes, countries or geographical regions for addition to the EXFOR library. The EXFOR library is a unique collection of nuclear reaction data (e.g., cross sections) measured in the world for neutron, charged particle and photon beams. The international collaboration on EXFOR development started in 1970 and accumulated data from more than 25k experiments. EXFOR offers free and sustainable open access to the data and it makes the data more citable. Participants are expected to bring articles reporting data measured in their geographical areas but missing in EXFOR.


Topics:

  • Time-of-flight measurement
  • Activation measurement
  • Fission yield measurement
  • Resonance analysis and reaction modelling
  • Uncertainty and covariance
  • Energy, medical and nuclear astrophysics applications
  • EXFOR retrieval and compilation

Speakers:

O. Cabellos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
S. Dunaeva, IAEA, Austria (Formerly)
A. Georgiadou, NEA, France
G. Gkatis, EC-JRC, Belgium
F. Gunsing, CEA Saclay, France
M. Herman, LANL, USA (formerly)
A. Mengoni, INFN Bologna, Italy
N. Otsuka, IAEA, Austria
C. Paradela, EC-JRC, Belgium
S. M. Qaim, FZJ, Germany
P. Schillebeeckx, SCK/CEN and EC-JRC, Belgium
O. Serot, CEA Cadarache, France
S. Takacs, ATOMKI, Hungary


Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Material

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data: Experiment and Compilation | (smr 4244)
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  • Monday, 2 November 2026
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Registration Formalities 
      REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities in the lobby. The Registration Desk will be open in the morning starting from 08:30.
    • 09:00 - 21:00
      • 09:00 Opening address from the IAEA 5'
        Speaker: Arjan KONING (Remote) (IAEA)
      • 09:05 Opening address and introduction from the ICTP 10'
        Speaker: Natasa STOJIC (ICTP)
      • 09:15 Introduction 30'
        Speaker: Naohiko OTSUKA (IAEA)
      • 09:45 Introduction to neutron induced interactions 30'
        Speaker: Peter SCHILLEBEECKX (SCK CEN)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:15 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:45 Transmission and capture 1h0'
        Speaker: Peter SCHILLEBEECKX (SCK CEN)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:45 Evaluation and propagation of measurement uncertainty 1h0'
        Speaker: Peter SCHILLEBEECKX (SCK CEN)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:45 Lunch break 1h15'
      • 14:00 EXFOR retrieval and plotting + Exercise 1h30'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster presentation 1h0'
      • 17:00 Welcome Reception 2h0' 
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception.

PLEASE NOTE: The reception will be held at the Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria.
  • Tuesday, 3 November 2026
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Resonance in neutron induced reactions 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank GUNSING (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
      • 10:00 Neutron scattering measurements 1h0'
        Speaker: Georgios GKATIS (European Commission Joint Research Centre)
      • 11:00 Group Photo 10'
      • 11:10 Coffee break 20'
      • 11:30 EXFOR format – BIB section 30'
        Speaker: Naohiko OTSUKA (IAEA)
      • 12:00 EXFOR editor – BIB section 30'
        Speaker: Svetlana DUNAEVA (IAEA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Exercise (Compilation 1) 1h30'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Exercise (Compilation 2) 1h30'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
  • Wednesday, 4 November 2026
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Fission cross sections 1h0'
        Speaker: Carlos PARADELA DOBARRO (European Commission Joint Research Centre)
      • 10:00 Measurement and evaluation of fission product yields 1h0'
        Speaker: Olivier SEROT (CEA-Cadarache, DES, IRESNE, DER, SPRC, LEPh)
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:30 Energy application 1h0'
        Speaker: Oscar CABELLOS (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
      • 14:00 EXFOR format – COMMON/DATA section 30'
        Speaker: Naohiko OTSUKA (IAEA)
      • 14:30 EXFOR editor – COMMON/DATA section 30'
        Speaker: Svetlana DUNAEVA (IAEA)
      • 15:00 Exercise (Compilation 3) 1h0'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
      • 16:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:30 Exercise (Compilation 4) 1h0'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
  • Thursday, 5 November 2026
    • 09:00 - 18:00
      • 09:00 Cross section measurement of charged particle induced reactions using activation method: Technical aspects 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandor TAKACS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research (Atomki))
      • 10:00 Nuclear data for medical applications 1h0'
        Speaker: Syed Muhammad QAIM (Forschungszentrum Julich Gmbh, Institute Fur Nuklearchemie)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:30 Reaction modelling for fast region 1h0'
        Speaker: Michal Wladyslaw HERMAN (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Checking, transmission and dissemination 30'
        Speaker: Naohiko OTSUKA (IAEA)
      • 14:30 Digitization + Exercise 1h0'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, GANDHI Aman
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Exercise (Compilation 5) 1h30'
        Speaker: OTSUKA Naohiko, DUNAEVA Svetlana, GANDHI Aman, SU Yang, GUNSING Frank
  • Friday, 6 November 2026
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      • 09:00 Evaluated nuclear data libraries: What happens after EXFOR 1h0'
        Speaker: Anastasia GEORGIADOU (Nuclear Energy Agency)
      • 10:00 Processing of nuclear data libraries 1h0'
        Speaker: Oscar CABELLOS (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
        Material: Handbook Practice exercises Slides
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:30 Nuclear data for nuclear astrophysics 1h0'
        Speaker: Alberto MENGONI (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Bologna)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Closing 30'
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