Preliminary Generation of Windowed Multipole Covariance Data

\nA methodology for the generation of covariance data in the windowed multipole formalism for resolved resonance data was developed. Using this process, covariance matrices were created for oxygen-16, uranium-235, and uranium-238, such that sampled cross-sections would match a user-selected average standard deviation, set at 5% ± 0.5% for this work. Windowed multipole datasets were then sampled and used on a simple critical benchmark to demonstrate the use of WMP data in conjunction with the Total Monte Carlo method of uncertainty propagation.\n