SAFEPAQ-11: User manual

• L W Packer
• R A Forrest

SAFEPAQ-II is the software tool that has been developed to enable efficient production of the EAF nuclear data libraries that are required as input to the FISPACT activation code. It forms part of the European Activation System (EASY), and replaces SAFEPAQ and SYMPAL that were used previously. SAFEPAQ-II enables all the nuclear data to be stored in relational databases (Access) and by using an interactive user interface allows the data to be viewed, modified, analysed, validated and then produced in the required EAF format as text files. It was originally written in Visual Basic 5 running under the Windows NT4 operating system. The current release (Issue 8) has been updated to use Visual Basic.NET running under the Windows XP operating system. The Windows operating system has the great advantage of portability and SAFEPAQ-II has been successfully installed at three external sites for use by CCFE’s international collaborators. It has been used in the production of the EAF-2001, EAF-2003, EAF-2005, EAF-2007 and EAF-2010 data libraries. Significant changes and enhancements were made to SAFEPAQ-II for the production of the data libraries produced for and after EAF-2007. The main reasons for the changes were the need to be able to treat data for deuteron- and proton-induced reactions with an upper energy of 60 MeV and to include the method of Statistical Analysis of Cross Sections (SACS). Issue 8 has further extended the analysis tools with several new features.