1. Measurement of the $^{232}$Th Neutron Capture Cross Section at the CERN n_TOF Facility
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Aerts, G., Abbondanno, U., Álvarez, H., Alvarez-Velarde, F., Andriamonje, S., Mosconi, M., Mengoni, A., Heil, M., Käppeler, F., Terlizzi, R., Furman, W., Ketlerov, V., Goverdovski, A., Konovalov, V., Andrzejewski, J., Assimakopoulos, P., Audouin, L., Badurek, G., Baumann, P., Becvár, F., Benlliure, J., Berthoumieux, E., Calviño, F., Cano-Ott, D., Capote, R., Carrillo De Albornoz, A., Cennini, P., Chepel, V., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortes, G., Cortina, D., Couture, A., Cox, J., David, S., Dolfini, R., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dridi, W., Duran, I., Embid-Segura, M., Ferrant, L., Ferrari, Anthony, Ferreira-Marques, R., Fitzpatrick, L., Frais-Kölbl, H., Fujii, K., Guerrero, C., Goncalves, I., Gallino, R., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Gramegna, F., Griesmayer, E., Gunsing, F., Haas, B., Haight, R., Herrera-Martinez, A., Igashira, M., Isaev, S., Jericha, E., Kadi, Y., Karamanis, D., Karadimos, D., Kerveno, M., Koehler, P., Kolokolov, D., Kossionides, E., Krticka, M., Lamboudis, C., Leeb, H., Lindote, A., Lopes, I., Lozano, M., Lukic, S., Marganiec, J., Marques, L., Marrone, S., Mastinu, P., M. Milazzo, P., Moreau, C., Neves, F., Oberhummer, H., O'Brien, S., Oshima, M., Pancin, J., Papachristodoulou, C., Papadopoulos, C., Paradela, C., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Pavlopoulos, P., Perrot, L., Plag, R., Plompen, A., Plukis, A., Poch, A., Pretel, C., Quesada, J., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rosetti, M., Rubbia, C., Rudolf, G., Rullhusen, P., Salgado, J., Sarchiapone, L., Stephan, C., Tagliente, G., L. Tain, J., Tassan-Got, L., Tavora, L., Vannini, G., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Villamarin, D., C. Vincente, M., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Voss, F., Wendler, H., Wiescher, M., Wisshak, K., Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and nTOF
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Mass number ,Curium ,25.40.Lw, 27.90.+b ,Nuclear Theory ,Thorium ,chemistry.chemical_element ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Americium ,02 engineering and technology ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,7. Clean energy ,Nuclear physics ,chemistry ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Neutron cross section ,Plutonium-241 ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Neutron ,Nuclear Experiment ,Isotopes of thorium - Abstract
PACS; International audience; The use of a fuel cycle based on 232Th can substantially reduce the radiotoxicity of the produced nuclear waste since the lower atomic and mass number of thorium results in a strongly suppressed build-up of the higher actinides and especially americium and curium. The design and realization of nuclear power stations based on the use of thorium, either in a critical or subcritical system, require an accurate knowledge of the 232Th(n,gamma) reaction cross section. We have measured the neutron capture cross section of 232Th at the recently constructed neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN in the energy range from 1 eV to 1 MeV. In the resolved resonance region, the resonance parameters have been extracted. In the unresolved resonance region, the neutron capture cross section is given as point-wise data. ©2005 American Institute of Physics
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- 2004