Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology

• Theory
• Modeling
• Simulation

• Nuclear Information Service
• Nuclear Physics
• Particle Physics
• Astrophysics
• Cosmology

Basic Nuclear Physics

• Nuclear Structure/Reactions (often as probes of fundamental physics)
• Nuclear Astrophysics (neutron stars, supernovae, nucleosynthesis,...)
• QCD and RHIC/LHC (quark-gluon plasma, jets and energy loss,...)
• Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos (ultra cold neutrons, Majorana, supernovae neutrinos,...)

Applied Nuclear Physics

• Light Nuclei (TN Burn, R-matrix, nuclear astrophysics,...)
• Heavy Nuclei
  • Nuclear Masses, R-process
  • Capture Reactions
  • Fission
• Applications
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Diagnostics for NIF
  • Threat Reduction

The standard Fortran-77 release of the NJOY Nuclear Data Processing System. The system is used to convert evaluated nuclear data in the Evaluated Nuclear Data Format (ENDF) into forms useful for a wide range of nuclear applications. This area is only to provide user support, such as updates and sample problem outputs. To obtain an official copy of NJOY99, contact one of the code centers (RSICC, NEA-Data Bank, etc.).

New version of the NJOY Nuclear Data Processing System using Fortran-90/95 style. It includes all the capabilities of NJOY 99 plus an ability to process evaluations using the newer Reich-Moore Limited (RML) resonance format now allowed in ENDF files. The NJOY 2012 User Manual LA-UR-12-27079_Rev is available here and in the Publications area. For an alternative description of NJOY 2012, see the Nuclear Data Sheets article.

Code for preparing data tables for nuclear transport codes from cross-section libraries in MATXS format. HTML instruction manual

An interactive nuclear data viewer that you can use to construct a variety of plots containing experimental data and theoretical curves. It has access to a wide variety of evaluated and processed data, and the plots can be customized to meet the user's desires.

The US standard evaluated nuclear data libraries are denoted by ENDF/B. A number of versions have been issued over the years, the current one being ENDF/B-VII.1. This area also gives access to earlier versions. Plots are available. In addition to neutron data, charged-particle data, photo-nuclear data, thermal data, and atomic data can be found.

We currently have JEFF-3.1, JEFF-3.0, and EAF2010 loaded. Users can obtain downloadable files, view interpreted versions of the evaluations, and look at plots of the processed data.

JENDL-4 is featured, but JENDL-3.3 and JENDL-3.2 are also available. Downloadable files, interpreted files, and plots are provided. As a special feature, color PDF plots of the JENDL-4 covariances are also provided.

We are providing CENDL-2. Downloadable files, interpreted files, and plots are available.

The Russian BROND-2.2 cross section library and the ADL-3T activation library. Downloadable and interpreted versions are available for each material. These materials are also available through the Nuclear Data Viewer.

Compute reaction Q-values and thresholds using experimental and theoretical nuclear masses.

Nuclear astrophysics calculations of nucleosynthesis in stars or the Big Bang, stellar evolution, and super-nova dynamics require good nuclear cross section information and nuclear properties, such as masses and lifetimes, for a very large number of nuclides. This area is intended to give the nuclear astrophysics community easy access to such data from Los Alamos.