.. _publications:

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Publications
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Overviews
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- Paul K. Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Adam G. Nelson, Benoit
  Forget, and Kord Smith, "`OpenMC: A State-of-the-Art Monte Carlo Code for
  Research and Development <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.07.048>`_,"
  *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **82**, 90--97 (2015).

- Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, Benoit Forget, Kord
  Smith, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Progress and Status of the OpenMC Monte Carlo
  Code," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to
  Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013).

- Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "`The OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport
  Code <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2012.06.040>`_,"
  *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **51**, 274--281 (2013).

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Benchmarking
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- Khurrum S. Chaudri and Sikander M. Mirza, "`Burnup dependent Monte Carlo
  neutron physics calculations of IAEA MTR benchmark
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2014.12.018>`_," *Prog. Nucl. Energy*,
  **81**, 43-52 (2015).

- Daniel J. Kelly, Brian N. Aviles, Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman,
  Nicholas E. Horelik, and Benoit Forget, "Analysis of select BEAVRS PWR
  benchmark cycle 1 results using MC21 and OpenMC," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto,
  Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).

- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Thomas M. Sutton,
  Daniel J. Kelly, III, and Brian N. Aviles, "Analysis of tally correlations in
  large light water reactors," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3
  (2014).

- Nicholas Horelik, Bryan Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Benchmark for
  Evaluation and Validation of Reactor Simulations,"
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
  Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013).

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, "Validation of OpenMC
  Reactor Physics Simulations with the B&W 1810 Series Benchmarks,"
  *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**, 1301--1304 (2013).

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Coupling and Multi-physics
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- Matthew Ellis, Derek Gaston, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Preliminary
  Coupling of the Monte Carlo Code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented
  Simulation Environment for Analyzing Doppler Feedback in Monte Carlo
  Simulations <http://dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-26>`_," *Nucl. Sci. Eng.*,
  **185**, 184-193 (2017).

- Matthew Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Derek Gaston, "Continuous
  Temperature Representation in Coupled OpenMC/MOOSE Simulations," *Proc. PHYSOR
  2016*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.

- Antonios G. Mylonakis, Melpomeni Varvayanni, and Nicolas Catsaros,
  "`Investigating a Matrix-free, Newton-based, Neutron-Monte
  Carlo/Thermal-Hydraulic Coupling Scheme
  <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282001032>`_",
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Nuclear Energy for New Europe*, Portoroz, Slovenia, Sep
  .14-17 (2015).

- Matt Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Derek Gaston, "Preliminary coupling
  of the Monte Carlo code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation
  Environment (MOOSE) for analyzing Doppler feedback in Monte Carlo
  simulations," *Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee,
  Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Progress toward Monte
  Carlo-thermal hydraulic coupling using low-order nonlinear diffusion
  acceleration methods <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.10.029>`_,"
  *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **84**, 63-72 (2015).

- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Utilizing CMFD in OpenMC to
  Estimate Dominance Ratio and Adjoint," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**,
  1389-1392 (2013).

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Geometry and Visualization
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- Logan Abel, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Interactive
  Visualization of Multi-Group Cross Sections on High-Fidelity Spatial Meshes,"
  *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **114**, 391-394 (2016).

- Derek M. Lax, "`Memory efficient indexing algorithm for physical properties in
  OpenMC <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97862>`_," S. M. Thesis, Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology (2015).

- Derek Lax, William Boyd, Nicholas Horelik, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "A
  memory efficient algorithm for classifying unique regions in constructive
  solid geometries," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).

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Miscellaneous
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- Amanda L. Lund, Paul K. Romano, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Accelerating Source
  Convergence in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Using a Particle Ramp-Up
  Technique," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to
  Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- Antonios G. Mylonakis, M. Varvayanni, D.G.E. Grigoriadis, and N. Catsaros,
  "Developing and investigating a pure Monte-Carlo module for transient neutron
  transport analysis," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **104**, 103-112 (2017).

- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, William R. Martin, and
  Forrest B. Brown, "GPU Acceleration of Kernel Density Estimators in Monte
  Carlo Neutron Transport Simulations," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**,
  531-534 (2016).

- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and William R. Martin, "Cylindrical
  Kernel Density Estimators for Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Reactor Physics
  Problems," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**, 563-566 (2016).

- Yunzhao Li, Qingming He, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu, and Tiejun Zu, "`Resonance
  Elastic Scattering and Interference Effects Treatments in Subgroup Method
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2015.12.015>`_," *Nucl. Eng. Tech.*, **48**,
  339-350 (2016).

- William Boyd, Sterling Harper, and Paul K. Romano, "Equipping OpenMC for the
  big data era," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.

- Michal Kostal, Vojtech Rypar, Jan Milcak, Vlastimil Juricek, Evzen Losa,
  Benoit Forget, and Sterling Harper, "`Study of graphite reactivity worth on
  well-defined cores assembled on LR-0 reactor
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2015.10.010>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
  **87**, 601-611 (2016).

- Qicang Shen, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Tally precision
  triggers for the OpenMC Monte Carlo code," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **112**,
  637-640 (2015).

- Kyungkwan Noh and Deokjung Lee, "Whole Core Analysis using OpenMC Monte Carlo
  Code," *Trans. Kor. Nucl. Soc. Autumn Meeting*, Gyeongju, Korea,
  Oct. 24-25, 2013.

- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and William R. Martin, "Flux and
  Reaction Rate Kernel Density Estimators in OpenMC," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*,
  **109**, 683-686 (2013).

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Multi-group Cross Section Generation
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- Hong Shuang, Yang Yongwei, Zhang Lu, and Gao Yucui, "`Fabrication and
  validation of multigroup cross section library based on the OpenMC code
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.11889/j.0253-3219.2017.hjs.40.040502>`_,"
  *Nucl. Techniques* **40** (4), 040504 (2017). (in Mandarin)

- Nicholas E. Stauff, Changho Lee, Paul K. Romano, and Taek K. Kim,
  "Verification of Mixed Stochastic/Deterministic Approach for Fast and Thermal
  Reactor Analysis," *Proc. ICAPP*, Fukui and Kyoto, Japan, Apr. 24-28, 2017.

- Zhauyuan Liu, Kord Smith, and Benoit Forget, "Progress of Cumulative Migration
  Method for Computing Diffusion Coefficients with OpenMC,"
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
  Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- Geoffrey Gunow, Samuel Shaner, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith,
  "Accuracy and Performance of 3D MOC for Full-Core PWR Problems,"
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
  Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- Tianliang Hu, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu, and Kun Zhuang, "A coupled neutronics
  and thermal-hydraulic modeling approach to the steady-state and dynamic
  behavior of MSRs," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods
  Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- William R. D. Boyd, "Reactor Agnostic Multi-Group Cross Section Generation for
  Fine-Mesh Deterministic Neutron Transport Simulations," Ph.D. Thesis,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017).

- Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord Smith, and Benoit Forget, "A Cumulative Migration Method
  for Computing Rigorous Transport Cross Sections and Diffusion Coefficients for
  LWR Lattices with Monte Carlo," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May
  1-5, 2016.

- Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Monte Carlo tallying of
  multi-group scattering moments using the NDPP code," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*,
  **113**, 645-648 (2015)

- Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Monte Carlo tallying of
  multi-group scattering moment matrices," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **110**,
  217-220 (2014).

- Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Convergence of Monte Carlo
  Generated Multi-Group Scattering Moments," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and
  Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley,
  Idaho, May 5--9 (2013).


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Doppler Broadening
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- Colin Josey, Pablo Ducru, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Windowed multipole
  for cross section Doppler broadening
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.08.013>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*, **307**,
  715-727 (2016).

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
  "On-the-fly Doppler Broadening of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Sections
  via Probability Band Interpolation," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May
  1-5, 2016.

- Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Windowed multipole sensitivity
  to target accuracy of the optimization procedure
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2015.1035353>`_,"
  *J. Nucl. Sci. Technol.*, **52**, 987-992 (2015).

- Paul K. Romano and Timothy H. Trumbull, "`Comparison of algorithms for Doppler
  broadening pointwise tabulated cross sections
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.046>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
  **75**, 358--364 (2015).

- Tuomas Viitanen, Jaakko Leppanen, and Benoit Forget, "Target motion sampling
  temperature treatment technique with track-length esimators in OpenMC --
  Preliminary results," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).

- Benoit Forget, Sheng Xu, and Kord Smith, "`Direct Doppler broadening in Monte
  Carlo simulations using the multipole representation
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2013.09.043>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
  **64**, 78--85 (2014).

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Nuclear Data
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- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
  "`Uncertainty in Fast Reactor-Relevant Critical Benchmark Simulations Due to
  Unresolved Resonance Structure
  <https://www.kns.org/paper_file/paper/MC2017_2017_3/P197S03-09WalshJ.pdf>`_,"
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
  Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- Vivian Y. Tran, Jonathan A. Walsh, and Benoit Forget, "Treatments for Neutron
  Resonance Elastic Scattering Using the Multipole Formalism in Monte Carlo
  Codes," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**, 1133-1137 (2016).

- Paul K. Romano and Sterling M. Harper, "Nuclear data processing capabilities
  in OpenMC", *Proc. Nuclear Data*, Sep. 11-16, 2016.

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Froget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
  "`Neutron Cross Section Processing Methods for Improved Integral Benchmarking
  of Unresolved Resonance Region Evaluations
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611106001>`_," *Eur. Phys. J. Web Conf.*
  **111**, 06001 (2016).

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith,
  "`Optimizations of the energy grid search algorithm in continuous-energy Monte
  Carlo particle transport codes
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2015.05.025>`_", *Comput. Phys. Commun.*,
  **196**, 134-142 (2015).

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and
  Forrest B. Brown, "Direct, on-the-fly calculation of unresolved resonance
  region cross sections in Monte Carlo simulations," *Proc. Joint
  Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Amanda L. Lund, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, Colin Josey, and
  Paul K. Romano, "Using fractional cascading to accelerate cross section
  lookups in Monte Carlo particle transport calculations," *Proc. Joint
  Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Ronald O. Rahaman, Andrew R. Siegel, and Paul K. Romano, "Monte Carlo
  performance analysis for varying cross section parameter regimes,"
  *Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, "`Accelerated sampling of
  the free gas resonance elastic scattering kernel
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.01.017>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
  **69**, 116--124 (2014).

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Parallelism
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- Paul K. Romano and Andrew R. Siegel, "`Limits on the efficiency of event-based
  algorithms for Monte Carlo neutron transport
  <https://www.kns.org/paper_file/paper/MC2017_2017_2/P099S02-02RomanoP.pdf>`_,"
  *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
  Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.

- Paul K. Romano, John R. Tramm, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Efficacy of hardware
  threading for Monte Carlo particle transport calculations on multi- and
  many-core systems," *PHYSOR 2016*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.

- David Ozog, Allen D. Malony, and Andrew R. Siegel, "A performance analysis of
  SIMD algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear reactor cores,"
  *Proc. IEEE Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium*, Hyderabad,
  India, May 25--29 (2015).

- David Ozog, Allen D. Malony, and Andrew Siegel, "Full-core PWR transport
  simulations on Xeon Phi clusters," *Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*,
  Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Paul K. Romano, Andrew R. Siegel, and Ronald O. Rahaman, "Influence of the
  memory subsystem on Monte Carlo code performance," *Proc. Joint
  Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).

- Hajime Fujita, Nan Dun, Aiman Fang, Zachary A. Rubinstein, Ziming Zheng, Kamil
  Iskra, Jeff Hammonds, Anshu Dubey, Pavan Balaji, and Andrew A. Chien, "Using
  Global View Resilience (GVR) to add Resilience to Exascale Applications,"
  *Proc. Supercomputing*, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 16--21, 2014.

- Nicholas Horelik, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew Siegel, "Domain
  decomposition and terabyte tallies with the OpenMC Monte Carlo neutron
  transport code," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).

- John R. Tramm, Andrew R. Siegel, Tanzima Islam, and Martin Schulz, "XSBench --
  the development and verification of a performance abstraction for Monte Carlo
  reactor analysis," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep 28--Oct. 3, 2014.

- Nicholas Horelik, Andrew Siegel, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Monte Carlo
  domain decomposition for robust nuclear reactor analysis
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2014.10.001>`_," *Parallel Comput.*,
  **40**, 646--660 (2014).

- Andrew Siegel, Kord Smith, Kyle Felker, Paul Romano, Benoit Forget, and Peter
  Beckman, "`Improved cache performance in Monte Carlo transport calculations
  using energy banding <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.008>`_,"
  *Comput. Phys. Commun.*, **185** (4), 1195--1199 (2014).

- Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew Siegel, "`On the use of
  tally servers in Monte Carlo simulations of light-water reactors
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404301>`_," *Proc. Joint International
  Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris,
  France, Oct. 27--31 (2013).

- Kyle G. Felker, Andrew R. Siegel, Kord S. Smith, Paul K. Romano, and Benoit
  Forget, "`The energy band memory server algorithm for parallel Monte Carlo
  calculations <http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404207>`_," *Proc. Joint
  International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte
  Carlo*, Paris, France, Oct. 27--31 (2013).

- John R. Tramm and Andrew R. Siegel, "`Memory Bottlenecks and Memory Contention
  in Multi-Core Monte Carlo Transport Codes
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404208>`_," *Proc. Joint International
  Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris,
  France, Oct. 27--31 (2013).

- Andrew R. Siegel, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kyle Felker,
  "`Multi-core performance studies of a Monte Carlo neutron transport code
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094342013492179>`_," *Int. J. High
  Perform. Comput. Appl.*, **28** (1), 87--96 (2014).

- Paul K. Romano, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Data
  decomposition of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations via tally servers
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.06.011>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*, **252**,
  20--36 (2013).

- Andrew R. Siegel, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kyle Felker,
  "`The effect of load imbalances on the performance of Monte Carlo codes in LWR
  analysis <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.06.012>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*,
  **235**, 901--911 (2013).


- Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "Reducing Parallel Communication in Monte
  Carlo Simulations via Batch Statistics," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **107**,
  519--522 (2012).

- Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "`Parallel Fission Bank Algorithms in Monte
  Carlo Criticality Calculations <http://dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-98>`_,"
  *Nucl. Sci. Eng.*, **170**, 125--135 (2012).

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Depletion
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- Matthew S. Ellis, Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Spatially
  Continuous Depletion Algorithm for Monte Carlo Simulations
  <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107880>`_," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**,
  1221-1224 (2016).

- Anas Gul, K. S. Chaudri, R. Khan, and M. Azeen, "`Development and verification
  of LOOP: A Linkage of ORIGEN2.2 and OpenMC
  <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2016.09.016>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
  **99**, 321--327 (2017).

- Kai Huang, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li, and Liangzhi Cao, "Generalized depletion
  chain simplification based of significance analysis," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun
  Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
