A computer program with graphical user interface to plot the multigroup cross sections of WIMS-D library

As a result of the IAEA Co-ordinated Research Programme entitled "Final Stage, of the WIMS Library Update Project," new and updated WIMS-D libraries based upon ENDF/B-VI.5, JENDL-3.2 and JEF-2.2 have become available. A project to prepare an exhaustive handbook of WIMS-D cross sections from old and new libraries has been taken up by the authors. As part of this project, we have developed a computer program 'XnWlup' with user-friendly graphical interface to help the users of WIMS-D library to enable quick visualization of the plots of the energy dependence of the multigroup cross sections of any nuclide of interest. This software enables the user to (generate and view the histogram of 69 multi-group cross sections as a function of neutron energy under Microsoft Windows environment. This software is designed using Microsoft Visual C + + and Microsoft Foundation Classes Library. The current features of the software, on-line help manual and future plans for further development are described in this paper. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.