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Comprehensive Second-Order Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-Asam) Applied To A Subcritical Experimental Reactor Physics Benchmark: Iii. Effects Of Imprecisely Known Microscopic Fission Cross Sections And Average Number Of Neutrons Per Fission, Dan Gaberiel Cacuci, Ruixian Fang, J. A. Favorite, M. C. Badea, F. Di Rocco
Comprehensive Second-Order Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-Asam) Applied To A Subcritical Experimental Reactor Physics Benchmark: Iii. Effects Of Imprecisely Known Microscopic Fission Cross Sections And Average Number Of Neutrons Per Fission, Dan Gaberiel Cacuci, Ruixian Fang, J. A. Favorite, M. C. Badea, F. Di Rocco
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The Second-Order Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis Methodology (2nd-ASAM) is applied to compute the first-order and second-order sensitivities of the leakage response of a polyethylene-reflected plutonium (PERP) experimental system with respect to the following nuclear data: Group-averaged isotopic microscopic fission cross sections, mixed fission/total, fission/scattering cross sections, average number of neutrons per fission (), mixed /total cross sections, /scattering cross sections, and /fission cross sections. The numerical results obtained indicate that the 1st-order relative sensitivities for these nuclear data are smaller than the 1st-order sensitivities of the PERP leakage response with respect to the total cross sections but are larger than those …