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Luiz C Leal

Bio: Luiz C Leal is an academic researcher from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear data & Neutron. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 104 publications receiving 4348 citations. Previous affiliations of Luiz C Leal include United States Department of Energy & Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire.


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TL;DR: The ENDF/B-VII.1 library as mentioned in this paper is the most widely used data set for nuclear data analysis and has been updated several times over the last five years. But the most recent version of the ENDF-B-VI.0 library is based on the JENDL-4.0 standard.

2,171 citations

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TL;DR: The ENDF/B-VII.0 as discussed by the authors file contains data primarily for reactions with incident neutrons, protons, and photons on almost 400 isotopes, based on experimental data and theory predictions.

1,913 citations

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TL;DR: The paper summarizes a program of nuclear science and computational work needed to create the new CIELO nuclear data evaluations and identifies discrepancies between various evaluations of the highest priority isotopes.

103 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of evaluations for 54,56,57,58 Fe has been developed in the framework of the CIELO international collaboration, where new resolved resonance ranges were evaluated for 54 Fe and 57 Fe, while modifications were applied to resonances in 56 Fe.

59 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have made new, improved measurements of the Si28-30 (n, gamma) cross sections and have done a resonance analysis of these data including previous total cross sections.
Abstract: We have made new, improved measurements of the Si28-30 (n, gamma) cross sections and have done a resonance analysis of these data including previous total cross sections. Together with the calculated contributions due to direct capture, we calculated the astrophysical (n, gamma) reaction rates and investigated the s-process abundances of the Si isotopes. Measured isotopic anomalies of intermediate and heavy elements in SiC grains from meteorites appear to be attributable to the s-process in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. But the Si isotopic ratios in these grains are substantially different than s-process models predict. Therefore, recent papers have invoked galactic chemical evolution or other effects to explain the Si isotope ratios in these grains. Our new reaction rates are significantly different than previous rates, and s-process calculations using these rates lead to much larger isotopic shifts in Si-30. However, these exploratory calculations demonstrate that even with these substantially different rates the large observed variation in SiC grain from AGB stars cannot be explained by standard s-process models.

39 citations


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John Allison1, K. Amako2, John Apostolakis3, Pedro Arce4, Makoto Asai5, Tsukasa Aso6, Enrico Bagli, Alexander Bagulya7, Sw. Banerjee8, G. Barrand9, B. R. Beck10, Alexey Bogdanov11, D. Brandt, Jeremy M. C. Brown12, Helmut Burkhardt3, Ph Canal8, D. Cano-Ott4, Stephane Chauvie, Kyung-Suk Cho13, G.A.P. Cirrone14, Gene Cooperman15, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo16, G. Cosmo3, Giacomo Cuttone14, G.O. Depaola17, Laurent Desorgher, X. Dong15, Andrea Dotti5, Victor Daniel Elvira8, Gunter Folger3, Ziad Francis18, A. Galoyan19, L. Garnier9, M. Gayer3, K. Genser8, Vladimir Grichine3, Vladimir Grichine7, Susanna Guatelli20, Susanna Guatelli21, Paul Gueye22, P. Gumplinger23, Alexander Howard24, Ivana Hřivnáčová9, S. Hwang13, Sebastien Incerti25, Sebastien Incerti26, A. Ivanchenko3, Vladimir Ivanchenko3, F.W. Jones23, S. Y. Jun8, Pekka Kaitaniemi27, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis28, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis29, M. Karamitrosi30, M.H. Kelsey5, Akinori Kimura31, Tatsumi Koi5, Hisaya Kurashige32, A. Lechner3, S. B. Lee33, Francesco Longo34, M. Maire, Davide Mancusi, A. Mantero, E. Mendoza4, B. Morgan35, K. Murakami2, T. Nikitina3, Luciano Pandola14, P. Paprocki3, J Perl5, Ivan Petrović36, Maria Grazia Pia, W. Pokorski3, J. M. Quesada16, M. Raine, Maria A.M. Reis37, Alberto Ribon3, A. Ristic Fira36, Francesco Romano14, Giorgio Ivan Russo14, Giovanni Santin38, Takashi Sasaki2, D. Sawkey39, J. I. Shin33, Igor Strakovsky40, A. Taborda37, Satoshi Tanaka41, B. Tome, Toshiyuki Toshito, H.N. Tran42, Pete Truscott, L. Urbán, V. V. Uzhinsky19, Jerome Verbeke10, M. Verderi43, B. Wendt44, H. Wenzel8, D. H. Wright5, Douglas Wright10, T. Yamashita, J. Yarba8, H. Yoshida45 
TL;DR: Geant4 as discussed by the authors is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter, which is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection.
Abstract: Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection. Over the past several years, major changes have been made to the toolkit in order to accommodate the needs of these user communities, and to efficiently exploit the growth of computing power made available by advances in technology. The adaptation of Geant4 to multithreading, advances in physics, detector modeling and visualization, extensions to the toolkit, including biasing and reverse Monte Carlo, and tools for physics and release validation are discussed here.

2,260 citations

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TL;DR: The ENDF/B-VII.1 library as mentioned in this paper is the most widely used data set for nuclear data analysis and has been updated several times over the last five years. But the most recent version of the ENDF-B-VI.0 library is based on the JENDL-4.0 standard.

2,171 citations

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TL;DR: The ENDF/B-VII.0 as discussed by the authors file contains data primarily for reactions with incident neutrons, protons, and photons on almost 400 isotopes, based on experimental data and theory predictions.

1,913 citations

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TL;DR: The fourth version of the Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library has been produced in cooperation with the Japanese Nuclear Data Committee as mentioned in this paper, and much emphasis is placed on the improvement of the original library.
Abstract: The fourth version of the Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library has been produced in cooperation with the Japanese Nuclear Data Committee. In the new library, much emphasis is placed on the impro...

1,699 citations

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TL;DR: The new ENDF/B-VIII.0 evaluated nuclear reaction data library as mentioned in this paper includes improved thermal neutron scattering data and uses new evaluated data from the CIELO project for neutron reactions on 1 H, 16 O, 56 Fe, 235 U, 238 U and 239 Pu described in companion papers.

1,249 citations