Recent needs for more accurate fission product yields include covariance information to allow improved uncertainty estimations of the parameters used by design codes. The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility to generate more reliable and complete uncertainty information on in- dependent mass fission yields. Mass yields covariances are estimated through a convolution between the multi-Gaussian empirical model based on Brosa’s fission modes, which describe the pre-neutron mass yields, and the average prompt neutron multiplicity curve. The covariance generation task has been approached using the Bayesian generalized least squared method through the CONRAD code. Preliminary results on mass yields variance-covariance matrix will be presented and discussed from physical grounds in the case of 235U(nth,f) and 239Pu(nth,f) reactions.

Covariance Matrix Evaluations for Independent Mass Fission Yields / N. Terranova; O. Serot; P. Archier; C. De Saint Jean; M. Sumini. - In: NUCLEAR DATA SHEETS. - ISSN 0090-3752. - STAMPA. - 123:(2015), pp. 225-230. [10.1016/j.nds.2014.12.039]

Covariance Matrix Evaluations for Independent Mass Fission Yields

TERRANOVA, NICHOLAS;SUMINI, MARCO
2015

Abstract

Recent needs for more accurate fission product yields include covariance information to allow improved uncertainty estimations of the parameters used by design codes. The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility to generate more reliable and complete uncertainty information on in- dependent mass fission yields. Mass yields covariances are estimated through a convolution between the multi-Gaussian empirical model based on Brosa’s fission modes, which describe the pre-neutron mass yields, and the average prompt neutron multiplicity curve. The covariance generation task has been approached using the Bayesian generalized least squared method through the CONRAD code. Preliminary results on mass yields variance-covariance matrix will be presented and discussed from physical grounds in the case of 235U(nth,f) and 239Pu(nth,f) reactions.
2015
Covariance Matrix Evaluations for Independent Mass Fission Yields / N. Terranova; O. Serot; P. Archier; C. De Saint Jean; M. Sumini. - In: NUCLEAR DATA SHEETS. - ISSN 0090-3752. - STAMPA. - 123:(2015), pp. 225-230. [10.1016/j.nds.2014.12.039]
N. Terranova; O. Serot; P. Archier; C. De Saint Jean; M. Sumini
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