Consultancy Meeting on Evaluation and Uncertainty Assessment for Be, C, Ne Atomic Data

Meeting Report

A meeting was held at IAEA Headquarters from 13 – 15 July 2015 to evaluate, assess uncertainties in, and recommend collisional data involving beryllium, carbon and neon for fusion applications.

An article resulting from work carried out as part of this evaluation project was published in Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables:
Dipti, T. Das, K. Bartschat, I. Bray, D. Fursa, O. Zatsarinny, C. Ballance, H. Chung, Y. Ralchenko, "Recommended electron-impact excitation and ionization cross sections for Be I", Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables (2018). [link to article]

Consultancy Meeting on Evaluation and Uncertainty Assessment for Be, C, Ne Atomic Data group photo

Agenda

Monday, 13 July 2015

09:30 – 10:00Opening, Introduction of Participants, Adoption of Agenda
10:00 – 10:30Klaus BARTSCHAT (Drake University, United States of America)
B-spline R-matrix with pseudostates calculations for electron-impact excitation and ionization of beryllium
10:30 – 11:00Connor BALLANCE (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Report on R-matrix/RMPS calculations for Be , C and Ne
11:00 – 11:20Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:50Dmitry FURSA (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University, Australia)
Electron collisions with beryllium and its ions
11:50 – 12:20Yuri RALCHENKO (National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America)
Analysis and fits of collisional data
12:20 – 13:50Lunch
13:50 – 15:20Review of electron collisional data for Beryllium (Be I, Be II)
15:20 – 15:40Coffee Break
15:40 – 17:00Review of electron collisional data for Beryllium (Be III, Be IV)

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

09:00 – 11:00Recommendation of electron collisional data for Beryllium with uncertainties
11:00 – 11:20Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:20Recommendation of electron collisional data for Beryllium with uncertainties
12:20 – 13:50Lunch
13:50 – 15:20Review of electron collisional data for Ne
15:20 – 15:40Coffee Break
15:40 – 17:00Review of electron collisional data for C

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

09:00 – 11:00Discussion on atomic data for plasma kinetics modeling
11:00 – 11:20Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:20Discussion on uncertainty assessment for atomic data
12:20 – 13:50Lunch
13:50 – 15:20Summary and Discussion on Future work
15:20 – 15:30Final Comments; Adjournment of Meeting

Presentations

Connor BALLANCE (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Report on R-matrix/RMPS calculations for Be , C and Ne

Klaus BARTSCHAT (Drake University, United States of America)
B-spline R-matrix with pseudostates calculations for electron-impact excitation and ionization of beryllium

Dmitry FURSA (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University, Australia)
Electron collisions with beryllium and its ions

Yuri RALCHENKO (National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States of America)
Analysis and fits of collisional data