Publications by Alexander Vasiliev

Monte Carlo analysis of BWR geometries using a cycle check-up methodology

Abdelhamid Dokhane, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev, Mathieu Hursin, Dimitri Rochman

Recent fuel anomalies at a Swiss power plant have motivated the development at PSI of the "Cycle Check-Up" (CHUP) methodology which consists in performing Monte Carlo transport calculations using nuclide compositions and thermal-hydraulic boundary conditio ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Optimisation of used nuclear fuel canister loading using a neural network and genetic algorithm

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Dimitri Rochman

This paper presents an approach for the optimisation of geological disposal canister loadings, combining high resolution simulations of used nuclear fuel characteristics with an articial neural network and a genetic algorithm. The used nuclear fuels (produ ...

SPRINGER LONDON LTD2021

Loading optimization for Swiss used nuclear fuel assemblies into final disposal canisters (vol 370, 110897, 2020)

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Dimitri Rochman

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Treatment of the implicit effect in Shark-X

Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev, Mathieu Hursin

Shark-X is a set of Perl-based tools build around the deterministic neutron transport code CASMO-5, used to perform uncertainty quantification for lattice calculations at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). While perturbing an input parameter, e.g. a cross s ...

2020

Nuclear data uncertainties for Swiss BWR spent nuclear fuel characteristics

Abdelhamid Dokhane, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev, Mathieu Hursin, Dimitri Rochman

The effect of nuclear data (fission yields, cross sections and emitted spectra) is quantified for spent nuclear fuel assemblies from a realistic boiling water reactor operated over 25 cycles. Nominal calculations are performed with the CASMO5, SIMULATE-3 a ...

2020

Loading optimization for Swiss used nuclear fuel assemblies into final disposal canisters

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Dimitri Rochman

In this study, an optimization of the canister loading for used nuclear fuels is performed, solely based on their decay heat values. By taking into account the individual irradiation history for each fuel assembly, as well as with a number of assumptions o ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Assessment of representativity of the PETALE experiments for validation of Swiss LWRs ex-core dosimetry calculations

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Dimitri Rochman

The international experimental program PETALE will be carried out at the CROCUS research reactor of EPFL. The program aims at measuring neutron penetration in slabs made of materials composing typical LWR reactor pressure vessel. The measurements will be u ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

First Observation of the Radiative Decay Lambda(0 )(b)-> Lambda gamma

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, Guido Andreassi, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Observation of an Excited B-c(+) State

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincenzo Battista, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, Guido Andreassi, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Measurement of Charged Hadron Production in Z-Tagged Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=8 TeV

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincenzo Battista, Maurizio Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Near-threshold DD spectroscopy and observation of a new charmonium state

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, Guido Andreassi, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State, P-c(4312)(+), and of the Two-Peak Structure of the P-c(4450)(+)

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, Guido Andreassi, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Model-Independent Observation of Exotic Contributions to B degrees -> J/psi K+pi(-) Decays

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Luis Alberto Granado Cardoso, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Jessica Prisciandaro, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Daniel Hugo Cámpora Pérez, Vladislav Balagura, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Maurizio Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Amplitude analysis of the B0 (s)! K0K0 decays and measurement of the branching fraction of the B0! K0K0 decay

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincenzo Battista, Maurizio Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Study of Nuclear Decay Data Contribution to Uncertainties in Heat Load Estimations for Spent Fuel Pools

Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Mathieu Hursin

At the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), a methodology for nuclear data uncertainty propagation in CASMO-5M (C5M) assembly calculations is under development. This paper presents a preliminary application of this methodology to C5M decay heat calculations. Appl ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Validation of Two Monte Carlo Codes for LWR Burnup Calculations

Damar Canggih Wicaksono, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev, Mathieu Hursin

This paper presents an assessment conducted at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) of two Monte Carlo-based codes, namely Monteburns and Serpent, for LWR depletion calculations. First, a validation of predicted spent fuel compositions is presented on the basi ...

2014

Application of the PSI-NUSS Tool for the Estimation of Nuclear Data Related k(eff) Uncertainties for the OECD/NEA WPNCS UACSA Phase I Benchmark

Tiankai Zhu, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev

At the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), a methodology titled PSI-NUSS is under development for the propagation of nuclear data uncertainties into Criticality Safety Evaluation (CSE) with the Monte Carlo code MCNPX. The primary purpose is to provide a complem ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Comparison of Two Approaches for Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation in MCNPX for Selected Fast Spectrum Critical Benchmarks

Tiankai Zhu, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Alexander Vasiliev, Dimitri Rochman

Nuclear data uncertainty propagation based on stochastic sampling ( SS) is becoming more attractive while leveraging modern computer power. Two variants of the SS approach are compared in this paper. The Total Monte Carlo (TMC) method by the Nuclear Resear ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Refined Monte Carlo analysis of the H.B. Robinson-2 reactor pressure vessel dosimetry benchmark

Rakesh Chawla, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev

Refined analysis, based on use of the Monte Carlo code MCNPX-2.4.0, is presented for the "H.B. Robinson-2 pressure vessel dosimetry benchmark", which is a part of the Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry Experiments Database (SINBAD). First, the performance o ...

Elsevier2011

On the performance of ENDF/B-VII.0 data for fast neutron fluence calculations

Rakesh Chawla, Hakim Ferroukhi, Alexander Vasiliev

The newest release of the Evaluated Nuclear Data File, ENDF/B-VII.0, has recently become available, along with the announcement of its significant advances over previous versions. The older ENDF/B releases, however, have been assessed for numerous applicat ...

Elsevier Science Ltd.2008