Extracting thermal neutron cross-sections from ENDF libraries?

[Hologram0110]

Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know of a tool that can extract thermal neutron cross-section data from endf for all availible isotopes? I'm trying to help my professor compile some data to modernize one of his courses. I'm trying to find a list of capture and scattering cross-sections for a wide list of isotopes. I've found the databases online (here and here) but short of manually looking up every isotope and recording the cross-sections I don't see a way to extract the data.

Anyone have any ideas? Doing it manually seems like it would likely result in mistakes.

 

[mathman]

Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know of a tool that can extract thermal neutron cross-section data from endf for all availible isotopes? I'm trying to help my professor compile some data to modernize one of his courses. I'm trying to find a list of capture and scattering cross-sections for a wide list of isotopes. I've found the databases online (here and here) but short of manually looking up every isotope and recording the cross-sections I don't see a way to extract the data.

Anyone have any ideas? Doing it manually seems like it would likely result in mistakes.

Many years ago I was head of a group which developed codes for neutron transport. As part of the program we developed codes which extracted cross-sections from ENDF/B tapes and massaged them for our codes. I believe the codes eventually ended up in the archive of one of the National Labs (Brookhaven ?). Try contacting them.

 

[Astronuc]

I believe NJOY is the application most use.

http://t2.lanl.gov/njoy/njoy01.html
http://users.ictp.it/~pub_off/lectures/lns005/Number_1/MacFarlane_2.pdf
http://www.oecd-nea.org/dbprog/njoy-links.html

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/nprcsafc/Group%20C/Kahler%20afc%20processing.pdf

http://t2.lanl.gov/publications/methods.pdf

 

[Hologram0110]

Thanks Astronuc! That is exactly the sort of program I was looking for. I knew there had to be one out there.