Second Research Coordination Meeting on Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis. Summary Report

The second meeting of the Co-ordinated Research Project on 'Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis'; was held at the IAEA, Vienna from 7-9 May, 2007. A summary of the presentations made by participants is given, along with reports on specifically assigned tasks and subsequent discussions. In order to meet the overall objectives of this CRP, the outputs have been reiterated and new task assignments made. The aims of the Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on 'Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis' are to improve the status of the database of nuclear constants for k0-NAA, to contribute to the quantification of nuclear structure and decay data, and to remove or reduce some of the discrepancies that exist between the integral constants and values derived from differential data. This CRP originated following the support of the International Nuclear Data Committee (INDC) which advises the Nuclear Data Section (NDS) on nuclear data issues. The INDC recommended in the Summary Report of their meeting of May 2002, INDC/P(02)-23, that a CRP on 'Reference Database for Neutron Activation Analysis' be initiated in 2005