Transport data libraries for incident proton and neutron energies to 100 MeV

A joint effort between the Applied Nuclear Science and Radiation Transport groups at Los Alamos has begun to develop and implement proton, neutron, and photon transport libraries for incident energies up to 100 MeV. The major steps involved in this effort are: (1) development of evaluated (ENDF/B) data formats appropriate for higher energies; (2) extension of low-energy nuclear physics theoretical models for applicability up to 100 MeV; (3) calculation and evaluation of nuclear data in ENDF/B-VI format for appropriate materials up to 100 MeV; (4) development of processing code capabilities to handle the higher energy data; and (5) development of the appropriate interfaces and code patches for use of data in transport codes such as MCNP. In this paper we mainly discuss the development of the basic transport data library, items (2) and (3) above, and summarize the remaining activities. 14 refs