Nuclear Data Standards for Nuclear Measurements

ENDF/B-6 Standards of 1987

Evaluated data in ENDF-6 format for H-1(n,n) integral and differential, He-3(n,p), Li-6(n,t), B-10(n,a), C(n,n) integral and differential, Au-197(n,g), U-235(n,f). A second file contains cross-section uncertainties and recommended values for the 2200 m/s neutron cross-sections of U-233, 235, Pu-239, 241, and nu-bar of Cf-252. The International Nuclear Data Committee recommended the ENDF/B-6 standards data as international reference standards.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-88, Rev. 3.

XG Standards

X-ray and gamma-ray standards for detector calibration. See under Nuclear Structure and Decay Data.
Also included in the handbook NEANDC-311.

1991 NEANDC/INDC Nuclear Standards File

See the handbook NEANDC-311 = INDC(SEC)-101, Nuclear Data Standards for Nuclear Measurements. H. Cond‚ (ed.). It includes the ENDF/B-6 Standards, the XG Standards, and some other data.

Standard monitor reactions for neutrons

Z. Bödy. - See Handbook on Nuclear Activation Data, IAEA Technical Report Series No. 273, Vienna 1987, p./29-82.

Properties of Neutron Sources

Proceedings of an IAEA Meeting, Leningrad, 1986. IAEA-TECDOC-410 (1987). K. Okamoto (ed.).
Contents: 1. White neutron sources (pulsed); 2. Fast neutron fields; 3. Californium-252 prompt fission-neutron spectrum; 4. Monoenergetic sources and filtered beams; 5. 14 MeV neutron sources; 6. Medical applications; etc. - No computerized data files.

Cf-252 neutron spectrum

Evaluation of the californium-252 spontaneous fission neutron spectrum, by W. Mannhart, PTB Braunschweig, FRG, 1986/87.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-98.
Compare also Handbook on Nuclear Activation Data, IAEA Technical Report Series No. 273, Vienna 1987, p. 163-186.
This data set was also included in the ENDF/B-6 decay data library under MAT 9861.

Neutron cross-section standards for the energy region above 20 MeV

No recommended data tables available yet. For a status report see report NEANDC-305, Paris 1991 (= proceedings of a meeting in Uppsala, 21-23 May 1991). Not available from IAEA, to be requested from the NEA Data Bank.

The following should be regarded as superseded:

ENDF/B-5 Standards, modification of 1986.
Documentation:

Note: the ENDF/B-5 standards are superseded by the ENDF/B-6 standards.

1982 INDC/NEANDC Nuclear Standards File: See handbook IAEA Technical Report No. 227, Nuclear Data Standards for Nuclear Measurements, 97 pages.