Line

Column (format)

1

1-11 (²11)

Selection criteria (0=MAT, 1=ZA) (DEFault = 0)

12-22 (²11)

Monitor mode selector:
= 0 – normal operation (DEF)
= 1 – monitor progress of linearizing of the data (this option may be used in order to monitor the execution speed of long running jobs)

23-33 (E11.4)

Minimum cross section of interest (barns).

0.0 or less - the program will use 1.0e-10 barn (DEF). Energy intervals will not be sub-divided if the absolute value of the cross section within the interval is less than this value. An exception to this rule is near thresholds energy intervals will be sub-divided until convergence regardless of the magnitude of the cross section.

34-44 (²11)

Keep original evaluated data points
= 0 – no (DEF)
= 1 – yes

2

1-60 (À60)

ENDF/B input data filename (DEF option ENDFB.IN)

3

1-60 (À60)

ENDF/B output data filename (DEF option ENDFB.OUT )

4-N

1 - 6 (²6)

Lower MAT or ZA limit

Up to 100 ranges may be specified, only one range per line.

If the upper MAT limit of any request is less than the low limit it will be set equal to the lower limit.

If the upper MAT limit is still zero it will be set equal to 9999.

If the upper MF or MT limit is zero it will be set to 99 or 999 respectively.

The list of ranges is terminated by a blank line.

7 - 8 (²2)

Lower MF

9-11 (²3)

Lower MT

12-17 (²6)

Upper MAT or ZA limit

18-19 (²2)

Upper MF

20-22 (²3)

Upper MT

Ê

1-11 (E11.4)

Energy for error law

If the error law is energy independent only a single error is given (DEFault 0.001)

If the error law is energy dependent up to 20 energy, error pairs are allowed. For an energy dependent error law all energies must be ascending energy order. The end of error law is terminated by a blank line.

12-22 (E11.4)

Allowable fractional error for error law

   Let tape-1 is the ENDF formatted file, which contains several materials. Assuming that
we intend to linearize within an accuracy of 1 per-cent (0.01 as a fraction) all neutron 
cross sections for materials, included in tape-1. 
   Let name of output ENDF formatted file will be RESULT.1.


The asterisks in this example, following below, in input file have to
correspond to the blanks. Here they are presented to facilitate the
calculation of positions.



********10********20********30********40********50********60********70********80
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
**********1**********0********0.0***********0          
tape-1
RESULT.1
*****0*1**0*99999*3999
********************************************************************************
*************1.00000-02
********************************************************************************
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890


Running of the code: LINEAR.EXE.