Official Announcement and Call for Papers for SATIF-4 Meeting
Official Announcement and Call for Papers for SATIF-4 Meeting
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANISATION DE COOPERATION ET DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUES
Nuclear Energy Agency
Agence pour l'Energie Nucleaire
12, Boulevard des Iles
F-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
FRANCE
From: Dr. Pedro VAZ
Telephone: +33 (1) 45 24 10 74
Telefax: +33 (1) 45 24 11 10
E-mail: vaz@nea.fr
To: Participants in SATIF-4 and SARE-4
Subject: Official Announcement and Call for Papers - SATIF-4 Meeting
Date: 8th April 1998
Particle accelerators have evolved over the last decades from simple devices
to powerful machines and are having an increasingly important impact on
research, technology and lifestyle. Today, they cover a wide range of
applications. It has become common practice to use them also for Material
Science and medical applications. In recent years, requirements from new
technological and research applications have emerged and the number of
accelerator facilities in operation, being commissioned, designed or planned
has significantly increased. Their parameters (such as the beam energy, beam
currents and intensities, targets composition, etc.) vary widely giving rise
to new Radiation Shielding aspects and problems.
The activities of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets
and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF) are sponsored by the OECD Nuclear Energy
Agency (NEA) and its Nuclear Science Committee (NSC). The main objectives of
the SATIF Meetings are:
* to promote the exchange of information among experts in the field of
accelerator shielding and related topics,
* to identify areas where international co-operation can be fruitful and
* to carry on a program of work in order to achieve progress in specific
priority areas
In this context, and on behalf of its Technical and Organizing Committee, we
announce that the fourth Specialists Meeting on Shielding Aspects of
Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-4) will take place in
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A., from 17-18 September 1998, jointly organized by
* the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
* the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
* the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) and
* the Shielding Working Group of the Reactor Physics Committee of Japan,
following the fourth Meeting on "Simulating Accelerator Radiation Environment"
(SARE-4). The Chairperson of the SATIF-4 Meeting will be Dr. Robert Roussin
from ORNL.
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Similarly to the preceding SATIF Specialists Meetings, e.g. SATIF-1 in 1994
at Arlington, Texas (U.S.A.), SATIF-2 in 1995 at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
and SATIF-3 in 1997 at the University of Tohoku, Sendai (Japan), special
emphasis will be devoted during the SATIF-4 Meeting to monitor the progress
achieved in agreed projects, to identify and initiate new co-operative actions
and to improve common understanding of problems that have technical and safety
significance in the following areas:
* Basic data (new measurements, compilation of existing neutron, proton, light
ion and pion cross-section data in the intermediate energy range above a few
dozens of MeV, forward bremsstrahlung yields from thick targets at energies
above 100 MeV, photoproduction data namely photonuclear cross-sections and
photonuclear yields and angular distributions for all common elements at all
energies, photopion yields and angular distributions at energies above
200 MeV, isotope production data, etc.)
* Nuclear Models and Computer Codes in the Intermediate Energy Range (code
validation, intercomparison of codes, comparison between experimental data
and predictions from existing computer codes implementing nuclear models)
* Shielding Experiments (measurements of forward and lateral attenuation of
iron and concrete for proton and ion accelerators up to a few tens of GeV
and as deep as possible, measurement of forward and lateral attenuation at
electron accelerators)
* Benchmark data (development of new benchmark exercises, further compilation
of existing benchmark data sets, etc.)
* New or better measurements of many activation detector excitation functions
(in particular C-11 production by neutrons and pions in the energy range
above 100 MeV and Bi production)
* Anthropomorphic computational models (compilation of existing models,
phantom geometries and material compositions, etc.)
* Conversion coefficients (calculation methods and results for high-energy
radiation)
In order to establish the approximate number of participants and presentations
made we would appreciate if you could fill in the enclosed preliminary
participation form and return it to us by the end of April. Commitment to
participation is not requested at this stage, the information is needed only
by the local organizers and for planning purposes.
For information concerning the local organization, please refer to:
http://www-rsicc.ornl.gov/sare/sare.html
We look forward to a successful SATIF-4 Meeting.
Best regards and best wishes for a Happy Easter,
Pedro Vaz
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The general framework for organizing the SATIF-4 Meeting is as follows:
Session 1: Source Term and Related Data - Electron Accelerator
Session 2: Source Term and Related Data - Proton and Ion Accelerator
Session 3: Shielding
Session 4: Miscellaneous Topics
Session 5: Present Status of Computer Codes and Cross Section and
Shielding Data Libraries
Session 6: Discussion and Future Actions
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Please fill in the following Preliminary Registration Form and return it by
regular mail, electronic mail or by fax, before the end of April, to:
P. Vaz
OECD/NEA
12, Boulevard des Iles
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
FRANCE
Fax: +33 (1) 45 24 11 10
E-mail: vaz@nea.fr
SATIF-4 Preliminary Registration Form
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