RESONANCETABLES

RESONANCETABLES is a software package to unify databases for thermal cross sections, resonance integrals, MACS and other average resonance parameters. The final database is the result of a priority setting of various original databases. The provided database can be used directly, or the code can be installed for user-specified reproduction of the database.

Documentation and reference

A description of the code and its options can be found in the RESONANCETABLES tutorial (pdf). The reference to be used for RESONANCETABLES is

D. Rochman, A.J. Koning, J.-Ch. Sublet, A statistical analysis of evaluated neutron resonances with TARES for JEFF-3.3, JENDL-4.0, ENDF/B-VIII.0 and TENDL-2019, Nuclear Data Sheets 163, 163 (2020).

Installation

Prerequisites:

The following are the prerequisites for compiling RESONANCETABLES:

• git (only if the package is downloaded via Github)
• a recent Fortran compiler such as gcc (gfortran)

Downloads:

To download RESONANCEtables, you can use one of the following options:

1. Download the tar file:

https://nds.iaea.org/talys/resonancetables.tar
tar zxf resonancetables.tar

2. Using git:

git clone https://github.com/arjankoning1/resonancetables.git

Installation instructions:

This is only relevant if you want to construct the database yourself. If not, the database is directly available. To install RESONANCETABLES, you can use one of the following options:

1. Using make:

git clone https://github.com/arjankoning1/resonancetables.git
cd resonancetables/source
make

2. Using the install_resonancetables.bash script:

git clone https://github.com/arjankoning1/resonancetables.git
cd resonancetables
install_resonancetables.bash

The above instructions will produce a resonancetables executable in the resonancetables/bin directory. The compiler and its flags can be set in either the source/Makefile or in code_build.bash.

The RESONANCETABLES package

The resonancetables/ directory contains the following directories and files:

• README.md is this README file
• LICENSE is the License file
• install_resonancetables.bash, code_build.bash and path_change.bash installation scripts
• source/ contains the Fortran source code of RESONANCETABLES and the Makefile
• bin/ contains the executable after successful installation
• doc/ contains the tutorial in pdf format
• files/ contains the input files for RESONANCETABLES: the original databases
• libs/ contains the results from the available nuclear data libraries
• macs/ contains the produced Maxwellian-averaged cross section (MACS) tables
• thermal/ contains the produced thermal cross section tables
• resonance/ contains the produced average resonance parameter tables

In total, you will need about 20 Mb of free disk space to install RESONANCETABLES.

Sample cases

A successful installation can be verified by simply running resonancetables in an empty directory. This will take about 30 seconds.

License and Copyright

This software is distributed and copyrighted according to the LICENSE file.