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1. A compact fission detector for fission-tagging neutron capture experiments with radioactive fissile isotopes

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D. Macina, A. Musumarra, K. Göbel, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, E. Mendoza, A. Oprea, I. Knapova, N. V. Sosnin, T. Wright, J. Heyse, Rene Reifarth, N. Kivel, R. Nolte, L. Cosentino, J. Marganiec, P. F. Mastinu, P. Vaz, F. Bečvář, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, M. Aiche, I. Duran, Stefan Kopecky, A. Saxena, A. Kimura, Alberto Ventura, G. Vannini, S. Valenta, Nicola Colonna, M. Kokkoris, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, P. M. Milazzo, R. Dressler, P. Kavrigin, E. Dupont, Carlos Guerrero, G. Sibbens, M. Mastromarco, Marco Calviani, B. Laurent, E. González-Romero, P. Ferreira, Mario Barbagallo, L. Audouin, M. Krtička, A. Pavlik, A. G. Smith, J. Billowes, D. Schumann, E. Griesmayer, Anton Wallner, Alexandru Negret, G. Cortes, C. Domingo-Pardo, G. Tagliente, M. Bacak, L. A. Damone, F. Käppeler, J. Balibrea, Philip Woods, O. Aberle, D. Vanleeuw, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, E. A. Maugeri, A. Kalamara, T. Martinez, C. Weiss, R. Vlastou, Olivier Serot, Carlo Rubbia, V. Vlachoudis, J. Perkowski, M. Diakaki, D. Radeck, Alfredo Ferrari, E. Berthoumieux, Stephan Richter, P. Schillebeeckx, S. Warren, F. Gunsing, A. Masi, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, A. Manna, Hideo Harada, Deniz Kurtulgil, V. Variale, D. G. Jenkins, Y. H. Chen, Cristian Massimi, P. V. Sedyshev, G. Belier, S. Heinitz, V. Furman, A. Stamatopoulos, E. Chiaveri, D. Cano-Ott, A. S. Brown, A. Casanovas, C. Lederer, E. Jericha, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, A. Moens, J. A. Ryan, S. Amaducci, Simone Gilardoni, R. Cardella, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, M. Caamaño, F. Cerutti, B. Fernández-Domínguez, J. L. Tain, J. Taieb, L. Mathieu, E. Leal-Cidoncha, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, A. R. García, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Ignacio Porras, J. Lerendegui-Marco, I. F. Gonçalves, N. Patronis, Alberto Mengoni, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) (CEA-DES (ex-DEN)), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Bacak, M., Aiche, M., Belier, G., Berthoumieux, E., Diakaki, M., Dupont, E., Gunsing, F., Heyse, J., Kopecky, S., Laurent, B., Leeb, H., Mathieu, L., Moens, A., Richter, S., Schillebeeckx, P., Serot, O., Sibbens, G., Taieb, J., Vanleeuw, D., Vlachoudis, V., Aberle, O., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Balibrea, J., Barbagallo, M., Becvar, F., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Caamano, M., Calvino, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y. H., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortes, G., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Damone, L. A., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Duran, I., Fernandez-Dominguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Gobel, K., Garcia, A. R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Goncalves, I. F., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Harada, H., Heinitz, S., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Kappeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kalamara, A., Kavrigin, P., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Knapova, I., Kokkoris, M., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Lo Meo, S., Lonsdale, S. J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Marganiec, J., Martinez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E. A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Milazzo, P. M., Mingrone, F., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Radeck, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J. A., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schumann, D., Sedyshev, P., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N. V., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Tarifeno-Saldivia, A., Tassan-Got, L., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weiss, C., Woods, P. J., Wright, T., Zugec, P., Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Enginyeria Nuclear i de les Radiacions Ionitzants, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Bacak M., Aiche M., Belier G., Berthoumieux E., Diakaki M., Dupont E., Gunsing F., Heyse J., Kopecky S., Laurent B., Leeb H., Mathieu L., Moens A., Richter S., Schillebeeckx P., Serot O., Sibbens G., Taieb J., Vanleeuw D., Vlachoudis V., Aberle O., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Audouin L., Balibrea J., Barbagallo M., Becvar F., Billowes J., Bosnar D., Brown A., Caamano M., Calvino F., Calviani M., Cano-Ott D., Cardella R., Casanovas A., Cerutti F., Chen Y.H., Chiaveri E., Colonna N., Cortes G., Cortes-Giraldo M.A., Cosentino L., Damone L.A., Domingo-Pardo C., Dressler R., Duran I., Fernandez-Dominguez B., Ferrari A., Ferreira P., Finocchiaro P., Furman V., Gobel K., Garcia A.R., Gawlik A., Gilardoni S., Glodariu T., Goncalves I.F., Gonzalez-Romero E., Griesmayer E., Guerrero C., Harada H., Heinitz S., Jenkins D.G., Jericha E., Kappeler F., Kadi Y., Kalamara A., Kavrigin P., Kimura A., Kivel N., Knapova I., Kokkoris M., Krticka M., Kurtulgil D., Leal-Cidoncha E., Lederer C., Lerendegui-Marco J., Lo Meo S., Lonsdale S.J., Macina D., Manna A., Marganiec J., Martinez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinu P., Mastromarco M., Maugeri E.A., Mazzone A., Mendoza E., Mengoni A., Milazzo P.M., Mingrone F., Musumarra A., Negret A., Nolte R., Oprea A., Patronis N., Pavlik A., Perkowski J., Porras I., Praena J., Quesada J.M., Radeck D., Rauscher T., Reifarth R., Rubbia C., Ryan J.A., Sabate-Gilarte M., Saxena A., Schumann D., Sedyshev P., Smith A.G., Sosnin N.V., Stamatopoulos A., Tagliente G., Tain J.L., Tarifeno-Saldivia A., Tassan-Got L., Valenta S., Vannini G., Variale V., Vaz P., Ventura A., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Warren S., Weiss C., Woods P.J., Wright T., and Zugec P.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Fission, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Theory, Física::Física de partícules [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Nuclear physics, Context (language use), Neutrons--Captura, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutrons--Capture, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, 233 U, ddc:530, n_TOF, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Fission detector, 233U, Time-of-flight, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Fissile material, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Neutron radiation, Fast fission, NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics, Calorimeter, PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika, Neutron capture, 13. Climate action, Física nuclear, Other
Abstract

In the measurement of neutron capture cross-sections of fissile isotopes, the fission channel is a source of background which can be removed efficiently using the so-called fission-tagging or fission-veto technique. For this purpose a new compact and fast fission chamber has been developed. The design criteria and technical description of the chamber are given within the context of a measurement of the 233U(n, ������) cross-section at the n_TOF facility at CERN, where it was coupled to the n_TOF Total Absorption Calorimeter. For this measurement the fission detector was optimized for time resolution, minimization of material in the neutron beam and for alpha-fission discrimination. The performance of the fission chamber and its application as a fission tagging detector are discussed., This work was partially supported by the French NEEDS/NACRE Project and by the European Commission within HORIZON2020 via the EURATOM Project EUFRAT.

Published
2020

2. Measurement of the Ge70(n,γ) cross section up to 300 keV at the CERN n_TOF facility

Author

E. A. Maugeri, G. Cortes, A. Musumarra, Claudia Lederer-Woods, A. R. García, S. Warren, V. Variale, V. Bécares, C. Weiss, R. Vlastou, A. Tattersall, P. C. Rout, M. Brugger, F. Gunsing, Tanja Heftrich, P. V. Sedyshev, Cristian Massimi, P. Ferreira, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, I. Knapova, M. Krtička, N. Patronis, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, A. Riego-Perez, C. Beinrucker, D. M. Castelluccio, Alfredo Ferrari, Petar Žugec, P. Vaz, K. Göbel, M. Mirea, G. Tagliente, T. Martinez, K. Rajeev, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, M. Bacak, G. Vannini, E. Leal-Cidoncha, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, I. Duran, Alberto Ventura, A. Kimura, T. Wright, Francesca Matteucci, V. Khryachkov, D. Macina, J. Perkowski, A. Gawlik, U. Battino, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, Thomas Rauscher, F. Käppeler, A. Pavlik, J. Marganiec, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. I. Porras, J. L. Tain, F. Bečvář, A. Saxena, Roberto Losito, S. Valenta, Carlos Guerrero, M. Kokkoris, Tatsuya Katabuchi, O. Aberle, C. Wolf, Mario Weigand, Mario Barbagallo, A. Casanovas, P. F. Mastinu, Marco Calviani, Carlo Rubbia, A. G. Smith, R. Dressler, E. Mendoza, S. Barros, L. Cosentino, D. Schumann, Philip Woods, Rene Reifarth, P. Kavrigin, E. Berthoumieux, N. Kivel, A. Tsinganis, Stefan Schmidt, L. Audouin, Nicola Colonna, V. Vlachoudis, E. González-Romero, J. M. Quesada, E. Chiaveri, L. Tassan-Got, E. Dupont, D. Cano-Ott, E. Griesmayer, Y. H. Chen, L. A. Damone, M. Caamaño, S. Heinitz, V. Furman, E. Jericha, V. Ketlerov, Alberto Mengoni, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, F. Cerutti, J. A. Ryan, D. G. Jenkins, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, J. Lerendegui-Marco, R. Cardella, I. F. Gonçalves, S. Montesano, A. Stamatopoulos, A. Oprea, J. Heyse, M. Mastromarco, Anton Wallner, J. Billowes, J. Balibrea, P. Schillebeeckx, Hideo Harada, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, M. Diakaki, R. Nolte, P. M. Milazzo, M. Dietz, and A. Goverdovski

Subjects
Physics, Standard solar model, Solar mass, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Neutron capture, 13. Climate action, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, s-process
Abstract

Neutron capture data on intermediate mass nuclei are of key importance to nucleosynthesis in the weak component of the slow neutron capture processes, which occurs in massive stars. The $(n,\gamma)$ cross section on $^{70}Ge$, which is mainly produced in the s process, was measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. Resonance capture kernels were determined up to 40 keV neutron energy and average cross sections up to 300 keV. Stellar cross sections were calculated from $kT=5 keV$ to $kT=100 keV$ and are in very good agreement with a previous measurement by Walter and Beer (1985) and recent evaluations. Average cross sections are in agreement with Walter and Beer (1985) over most of the neutron energy range covered, while they are systematically smaller for neutron energies above 150 keV. We have calculated isotopic abundances produced in s-process environments in a 25 solar mass star for two initial metallicities (below solar and close to solar). While the low metallicity model reproduces best the solar system germanium isotopic abundances, the close to solar model shows a good global match to solar system abundances in the range of mass numbers A=60–80.

Published
2019

3. Experimental setup and procedure for the measurement of the $^7$Be(n,p)$^7$Li reaction at n_TOF

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A. Oprea, M. Krtička, J. Heyse, P. Ferreira, G. Bellia, T. Martinez, A. Musumarra, G. Cortes, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, G. Tagliente, J. Billowes, M. S. Robles, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, M. Diakaki, G. Vannini, Alexandru Negret, Juliana Schell, F. Käppeler, R. Nolte, Y. H. Chen, S. Heinitz, Karl Johnston, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, Carlo Rubbia, V. Vlachoudis, A. Casanovas, M. Bacak, Alfredo Ferrari, E. A. Maugeri, S. Warren, V. Variale, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, M. Mastromarco, C. Lederer, Carlos Guerrero, K. Göbel, E. Mendoza, P. Kavrigin, J. Lerendegui-Marco, A. Manna, V. Furman, Anton Wallner, I. F. Gonçalves, N. V. Sosnin, N. Kivel, A. Kalamara, J. Balibrea, F. Gunsing, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, E. Jericha, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, Nicola Colonna, A. Kimura, T. Wright, J. A. Ryan, A. Masi, E. Dupont, P. M. Milazzo, L. Audouin, D. G. Jenkins, A. S. Brown, J. Marganiec, I. Duran, Maurizio Piscopo, L. Cosentino, P. F. Mastinu, I. Porras, A. Saxena, Cristian Massimi, R. Dressler, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. Schillebeeckx, P. V. Sedyshev, Mario Barbagallo, D. Schumann, Hideo Harada, E. Leal-Cidoncha, A. Gawlik, C. Weiss, R. Vlastou, Thomas Rauscher, B. Fernández-Domínguez, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, N. Patronis, S. Valenta, E. González-Romero, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, Philip Woods, J. L. Tain, A. R. García, A. Stamatopoulos, M. Kokkoris, F. Bečvář, Alfio Pappalardo, Alberto Mengoni, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, D. Macina, J. Perkowski, O. Aberle, P. Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Rene Reifarth, E. Chiaveri, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, D. Cano-Ott, Sergio Cristallo, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, S. Amaducci, J. G. Martins-Correia, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, M. Caamaño, F. Cerutti, Simone Gilardoni, R. Cardella, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, n_TOF, 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 ), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, 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), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mengoni, A., Lo Meo, S., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Barbagallo, M., Andrzejewski, J., Mastromarco, M., Perkowski, J., Damone, L.A., Gawlik, A., Cosentino, L., Finocchiaro, P., Maugeri, E.A., Mazzone, A., Dressler, R., Heinitz, S., Kivel, N., Schumann, D., Colonna, N., Aberle, O., Amaducci, S., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Bečvář, F., Bellia, G., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y.H., Chiaveri, E., Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M.A., Cristallo, S., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Furman, V., Göbel, K., García, A.R., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I.F., González-Romero, E., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Johnston, K., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kalamara, A., Kavrigin, P., Kimura, A., Kokkoris, M., Krtička, M., Kurtulgil, D., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Leeb, H., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Lonsdale, S.J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Martins-Correia, J.G., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mendoza, E., Milazzo, P.M., Mingrone, F., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Pappalardo, A.D., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Piscopo, M., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J.M., Radeck, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Robles, M.S., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J.A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schell, J., Schillebeeckx, P., Sedyshev, P., Smith, A.G., Sosnin, N.V., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J.L., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tassan-Got, L., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weiss, C., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., Žugec, P., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear physics, OUTLOOK, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle identification, p) 7Li reaction, CERN, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 7Be(n,p)7 Li reaction, 7Be(n,p) 7Li reaction, Big bang nucleosynthesis, Cosmological Lithium problem, n_TOF spallation neutron source, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Cross section, 7Be(n, Big bang nucleosynthesis, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Charged particle, PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika, Cosmological Lithium problem, Big bang nucleosynthesis, 7Be(n, p)7Li reaction, n_TOF spallation neutron source, Cardinal point, Big bang nucleosynthesi, Física nuclear, p) 7 Li reaction, CROSS-SECTION, Cosmological Lithium problem, Spallation Neutron Source, n_TOF spallation neutron source, 7Be(n,p) 7Li reaction, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, nTOF, FOS: Physical sciences, Be-7(n,p)Li-7 reaction, 7Be(n,p)7Li reaction, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, FACILITY, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Neutrons, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, p)7Li reaction, Neutron radiation, NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics, 7 Be(n, NEUTRON
Abstract

Following the completion of the second neutron beam line and the related experimental area (EAR2) at the n_TOF spallation neutron source at CERN, several experiments were planned and performed. The high instantaneous neutron flux available in EAR2 allows to investigate neutron indiced reactions with charged particles in the exit channel even employing targets made out of small amounts of short-lived radioactive isotopes. After the successful measurement of the 7Be(n,{\alpha}){\alpha} cross section, the 7Be(n,p)7Li reaction was studied in order to provide still missing cross section data of relevance for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), in an attempt to find a solution to the cosmological Lithium abundance problem. This paper describes the experimental setup employed in such a measurement and its characterization., The authors are grateful to Carmelo Marchetta (INFN-LNS) for the production of the 6LiF test target. This research was partially funded by the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007- 2011 under the Project CHANDA (Grant No. 605203). We acknowledge the support of the Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) under the grant UMO-2012/04/M/ST2/00700-UMO-2016/22/M/ST2/00183, and of the Croatian Science Foundation under project HRZZ 1680.

Published
2018

4. The Nuclear astrophysics program at n_TOF (CERN)

Author

C. Massimi, E. Chiaveri, C. Rubbia, P. J. Woods, S. Warren, A. Casanovas, F. Mingrone, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, D. Bosnar, A. Oprea, J. M. Quesada, G. Vannini, E. González, J. A. Ryan, E. Berthoumieux, Sergio Cristallo, I. Porras, J. Perkowski, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Mario Barbagallo, G. Cortes, D. Kurtulgil, M. Kokkoris, M. S. Robles, A. Stamatopoulos, L. R. Dressler, M. Bacak, J. Kroll, P. Kavrigin, M. Krtička, C. Weiss, A. Pavlik, F. Gunsing, L. A. Damone, A. Ventura, J. Andrzejewski, A. Riego, T. Glodariu, V. Variale, J. L. Tain, E. Dupont, F. Käppeler, C. Lederer, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. Heyse, Christoph Langer, Dorothea Schumann, H. Leeb, D. Radeck, Ralf Nolte, P. Mastinu, V. Vlachoudis, L. Piersanti, M. Mastromarco, G. Tagliente, J. Marganiec, Y. H. Chen, R. Cardella, B. Fernández-Domínguez, S. Heinitz, D. Cano-Ott, A. Masi, V. Furman, A. S. Brown, P. Finocchiaro, E. Griesmayer, P. M. Milazzo, Anton Wallner, T. Wright, D. G. Jenkins, P. Schillebeeckx, Nicola Colonna, J. Balibrea, Cosentino, N. V. Sosnin, A. Negret, T. Martínez, S. Valenta, E. Jericha, P. Sedyshev, A. Hernandez-Prieto, E. Leal-Cidoncha, Petar Žugec, Simona Losito, E. A. Maugeri, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, A. Ferrari, L. Tassan-Got, A. Kalamara, Pedro G. Ferreira, A. Mazzone, L. Audouin, A. Tsinganis, M. Caamaño, I. Duran, Y. Kadi, A. Saxena, Hideo Harada, P. Vaz, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, S. Gilardoni, M. Mirea, A. G. Smith, N. Patronis, F. Cerutti, M. Diakaki, R. Vlastou, F. Calviño, Atsushi Kimura, R. Reifarth, J. Billowes, F. Bečvář, E. Mendoza, A. Musumarra, J. Lerendegui-Marco, I. F. Gonçalves, K. Göbel, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, O. Aberle, Giulia Clai, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, A. R. García, Marco Calviani, N. Kivel, A. Mengoni, A. Mallik, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, 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 sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, n_TOF, Mengoni, A., Lo Meo, S., Clai, G., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Colonna, N., La Cognata, M., Aberle, O., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Barbagallo, M., Bečvář, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y. H., Chiaveri, E., Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, Null, Cristallo, S., Damone, L. A., Diakaki, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, L. R., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Göbel, K., García, A. R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I. F., González, E., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heinitz, S., Hernandez-Prieto, A., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kalamara, A., Kavrigin, P., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Kokkoris, M., Kroll, J., Krtička, M., Kurtulgil, D., Langer, C., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Leeb, H., Lonsdale, S. J., Losito, S., Macina, D., Mallik, A., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E. A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mingrone, F., Milazzo, P. M., Mirea, M., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Piersanti, L., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Radeck, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Riego, A., Robles, M. S., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J. A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Sedyshev, P., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N. V., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tassan-Got, L., Tsinganis, A., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weiss, C., Woods, P. J., Wright, T., Žugec, P., and Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Astrofísica, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Cross-section, nTOF, QC1-999, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Neutron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, n_TOF, nuclear astrophysics, CERN, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, CERN, Nuclear astrophysics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Neutron induced nuclear reactions, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Neutrons, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Neutron capture, 13. Climate action, Neutron source, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Nucleosíntesi
Abstract

An important experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics is being carried out at the n_TOF since several years, in order to address the still open issues in stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis. Several neutron capture reactions relevant to s-process nucleosynthesis have been measured so far, some of which on important branching point radioisotopes. Furthermore, the construction of a second experimental area has recently opened the way to challenging measurements of (n, charged particle) reactions on isotopes of short half-life. The Nuclear Astrophysics program of the n_TOF Collaboration is here described, with emphasis on recent results relevant for stellar nucleosynthesis, stellar neutron sources and primordial nucleosynthesis., We acknowledge the support by the Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), under the Grant No. UMO-2012/04/M/ST2/00700.

Published
2018

5. New measurement of the 242Pu(n,γ) cross section at n-TOF-EAR1 for MOX fuels: Preliminary results in the RRR

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Simone Gilardoni, P. C. Rout, Ignacio Porras, Rene Reifarth, J. Billowes, C. Lederer, E. Leal-Cidoncha, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, R. Cardella, P. Vaz, P. Schillebeeckx, M. Diakaki, A. Casanovas, Alberto Ventura, A. Mengoni, M. Kokkoris, Hideo Harada, J. Marganiec, G. Vannini, M. Caamaño, A. Oprea, J. Heyse, N. Patronis, L. Cosentino, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, S. Warren, E. A. Maugeri, A. Pavlik, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, C. Domingo-Pardo, F. Cerutti, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, E. Mendoza, E. Jericha, R. Nolte, S. Valenta, P. F. Mastinu, T. Glodariu, J. Lerendegui-Marco, V. Variale, Arnd R. Junghans, A. R. García, Paolo Finocchiaro, Marco Calviani, A. Kimura, J. A. Ryan, A. Saxena, A. G. Smith, P. M. Milazzo, I. F. Gonçalves, M. Mastromarco, Philip Woods, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, A. S. Brown, Anton Wallner, R. Vlastou, J. Perkowski, M. B. Gómez-Hornillos, I. Duran, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, F. Gunsing, P. Ferreira, Y. H. Chen, Mario Barbagallo, D. Schumann, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, J. Balibrea, E. Chiaveri, A. Masi, G. Tagliente, S. Heinitz, Damir Bosnar, D. Cano-Ott, Carlo Rubbia, G. Cortes, Cristian Massimi, A. Stamatopoulos, Y. Kadi, D. G. Jenkins, K. Göbel, R. Dressler, V. Vlachoudis, D. Macina, P. Kavrigin, Alfredo Ferrari, E. González, T. Wright, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, M. Krtička, O. Aberle, T. Martinez, N. V. Sosnin, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, B. Fernández-Domínguez, J. L. Tain, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, N. Kivel, Klaus Eberhardt, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, L. Audouin, A. Kalamara, A. Musumarra, Deniz Kurtulgil, Nicola Colonna, Carlos Guerrero, E. Dupont, F. Bečvář, M. Bacak, 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 sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, n_TOF, Mengoni, A., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España, Lerendegui-Marco, J., Guerrero, C., Cortés-Giraldo, M.A., Quesada, J.M., Mendoza, E., Cano-Ott, D., Eberhardt, K., Junghans, A., Aberle, O., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Barbagallo, M., Bečvář, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y.H., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortés, G., Cosentino, L., Damone, L.A., Diakaki, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Göbel, K., Gómez-Hornillos, M.B., García, A.R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I.F., González, E., Griesmayer, E., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kalamara, A., Kavrigin, P., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Kokkoris, M., Krtička, M., Kurtulgil, D., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Leeb, H., Meo, S. Lo, Lonsdale, S.J., Macina, D., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E.A., Mazzone, A., Milazzo, P.M., Mingrone, F., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Porras, I., Praena, J., Radeck, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rout, P.C., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J.A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Smith, A.G., Sosnin, N.V., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J.L., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tassan-Got, L., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., Ž Ugec, P., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, nTOF, QC1-999, Nuclear engineering, Context (language use), CERN nTOF, Neutron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Physics and Astronomy (all), Nuclear reactors, Reactors nuclears, 0103 physical sciences, CERN, Neutron cross section, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, ddc:530, 242Pu neutron capture, 010306 general physics, MOX fuel, Neutrons, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Fissile material, Cross section, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics, Spent nuclear fuel, Neutron temperature, 13. Climate action, neutron time-of-flight measurement
Abstract

The spent fuel of current nuclear reactors contains fissile plutonium isotopes that can be combined with 238U to make mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. In this way the Pu from spent fuel is used in a new reactor cycle, contributing to the long-term sustainability of nuclear energy. The use of MOX fuels in thermal and fast reactors requires accurate capture and fission cross sections. For the particular case of 242Pu, the previous neutron capture cross section measurements were made in the 70’s, providing an uncertainty of about 35% in the keV region. In this context, the Nuclear Energy Agency recommends in its “High Priority Request List” and its report WPEC-26 that the capture cross section of 242Pu should be measured with an accuracy of at least 7–12% in the neutron energy range between 500 eV and 500 keV. This work presents a brief description of the measurement performed at n TOF-EAR1, the data reduction process and the first ToF capture measurement on this isotope in the last 40 years, providing preliminary individual resonance parameters beyond the current energy limits in the evaluations, as well as a preliminary set of average resonance parameters., This measurement has received funding from the EC FP7 Programme under the projects NEUTANDALUS (Grant No. 334315) and CHANDA (Grant No. 605203), and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness projects FPA2013- 45083-P and FPA2014-53290-C2-2-P.

Published
2017

6. Characterization of the n-TOF EAR-2 neutron beam

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M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Enrique Casarejos, F. Gunsing, A. Musumarra, Cristian Massimi, A. Pavlik, P. Ferreira, C. Domingo-Pardo, P. M. Milazzo, N. Kivel, M. Krtička, R. Nolte, G. Tagliente, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, P. C. Rout, M. Caamaño, F. Cerutti, Alfredo Ferrari, R. Cardella, T. Martinez, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, K. Göbel, C. Lederer, G. Vannini, S. Warren, A. Kimura, Tatsuya Katabuchi, E. Leal-Cidoncha, Tanja Heftrich, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, Mario Weigand, V. Variale, J. Marganiec, O. Aberle, T. Wright, E. Chiaveri, D. Cano-Ott, D. Macina, J. L. Tain, Carlo Rubbia, E. González, V. Vlachoudis, S. Barros, A. Gawlik, M. Kokkoris, J. I. Porras, Thomas Rauscher, Rene Reifarth, D. M. Castelluccio, A. Riego-Perez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, Stefan Schmidt, Mario Barbagallo, P. F. Mastinu, V. Khryachkov, M. Mirea, D. Schumann, P. Vaz, L. Cosentino, J. M. Quesada, C. Le Naour, L. Tassan-Got, Alberto Ventura, I. F. Gonçalves, M. Bacak, D. G. Jenkins, F. Käppeler, E. Mendoza, V. Bécares, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, A. Oprea, G. Cortes, A. Casanovas, J. Perkowski, S. Montesano, Y. H. Chen, J. Heyse, A. R. García, M. B. Gómez-Hornillos, B. Fernández-Domínguez, S. Heinitz, N. Patronis, Carlos Guerrero, M. Brugger, I. Duran, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, A. Stamatopoulos, C. Beinrucker, A. Saxena, E. Jericha, C. Wolf, A. G. Smith, Roberto Losito, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, K. Rajeev, Philip Woods, Alberto Mengoni, J. A. Ryan, P. Schillebeeckx, Francesca Matteucci, V. Ketlerov, C. Weiss, R. Vlastou, A. Goverdovski, R. Dressler, A. Tsinganis, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, P. Kavrigin, P. V. Sedyshev, F. Bečvář, Nicola Colonna, Hideo Harada, E. Dupont, J. Billowes, E. Griesmayer, M. Mastromarco, L. A. Damone, M. S. Robles, Anton Wallner, E. A. Maugeri, J. Balibrea, L. Audouin, M. Diakaki, E. Berthoumieux, V. Furman, Petar Žugec, 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 sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, n_TOF, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. NEMEN - Nanoenginyeria de materials aplicats a l'energia, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Gobierno de España, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Chen, Y.H., Tassan-Got, L., Audouin, L., Le Naour, C., Durán, I., Casarejos, E., Aberle, O., Andrzejewski, J., Bécares, V., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Barbagallo, M., Barros, S., Bečvář, F., Beinrucker, C., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brugger, M., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Castelluccio, D.M., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M.A., Cosentino, L., Damone, L.A., Diakaki, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Dupont, E., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Göbel, K., Gómez-Hornillos, M.B., García, A.R., Gawlik, A., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I.F., González, E., Goverdovski, A., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heftrich, T., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Katabuchi, T., Kavrigin, P., Ketlerov, V., Khryachkov, V., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Kokkoris, M., Krtička, M., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Leeb, H., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Meo, S. Lo, Lonsdale, S.J., Losito, R., Macina, D., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Matteucci, F., Maugeri, E.A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Milazzo, P.M., Mingrone, F., Mirea, M., Montesano, S., Musumarra, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Porras, J.I., Praena, J., Quesada, J.M., Rajeev, K., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Riego-Perez, A., Robles, M., Rout, P.C., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J.A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schmidt, S., Schumann, D., Sedyshev, P., Smith, A.G., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J.L., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tsinganis, A., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weigand, M., Weiss, C., Wolf, C., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., Ugec, P., and Lo Meo, S.

Subjects
nTOF, QC1-999, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph], Neutron, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), CERN, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrons, Physics, Flux, Large Hadron Collider, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Beam, Neutron radiation, Accelerators and Storage Rings, Parallel plate, Characterization (materials science), Beam (structure)
Abstract

The experimental area 2 (EAR-2) at CERNs neutron time-of-flight facility (n TOF), which is operational since 2014, is designed and built as a short-distance complement to the experimental area 1 (EAR-1). The Parallel Plate Avalanche Counter (PPAC) monitor experiment was performed to characterize the beam profile and the shape of the neutron flux at EAR-2. The prompt γ-flash which is used for calibrating the time-of-flight at EAR-1 is not seen by PPAC at EAR-2, shedding light on the physical origin of this γ-flash., The USC group contribution has been partly supported by Spanish grant FPA2013-46236-P.

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2017
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7. 7Be(n,α) and 7Be(n,p) cross-section measurement for the cosmological lithium problem at the n-TOF facility at CERN

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M. Mirea, J. Marganiec, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, V. Bécares, J. Perkowski, Petar Žugec, P. F. Mastinu, A. Musumarra, D. G. Jenkins, Tanja Heftrich, F. Gunsing, P. Vaz, V. Furman, Y. H. Chen, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A. Riego-Perez, L. Cosentino, Cristian Massimi, S. Heinitz, A. Casanovas, E. A. Maugeri, Alberto Ventura, A. Saxena, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, S. Barros, G. Vannini, C. Wolf, J. Lerendegui-Marco, O. Aberle, F. Käppeler, A. Tsinganis, E. Berthoumieux, M. Krtička, I. F. Gonçalves, A. Kimura, Alfredo Ferrari, Mario Weigand, J. Billowes, N. Kivel, T. Martinez, Nicola Colonna, E. Dupont, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, A. Stamatopoulos, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortes, D. Cano-Ott, Rene Reifarth, V. Khryachkov, E. González, Alberto Mengoni, P. Ferreira, Stefan Schmidt, Mario Barbagallo, D. Schumann, J. I. Porras, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, F. Bečvář, R. Cardella, A. Pavlik, G. Tagliente, C. Domingo-Pardo, K. Rajeev, B. Fernández-Domínguez, Francesca Matteucci, E. Jericha, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, J. L. Tain, P. Schillebeeckx, M. Bacak, J. A. Ryan, M. Caamaño, M. Diakaki, F. Cerutti, Roberto Losito, P. V. Sedyshev, L. Audouin, A. Oprea, J. Heyse, Hideo Harada, D. M. Castelluccio, M. Mastromarco, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, Carlos Guerrero, Anton Wallner, S. Montesano, J. Balibrea, S. Warren, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, V. Variale, R. Nolte, A. Goverdovski, E. Leal-Cidoncha, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, P. C. Rout, C. Lederer, S. Valenta, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, Marco Calviani, Carlo Rubbia, V. Vlachoudis, A. G. Smith, V. Ketlerov, Philip Woods, P. M. Milazzo, C. Weiss, R. Vlastou, A. R. García, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, M. Brugger, K. Göbel, C. Beinrucker, T. Wright, M. Kokkoris, N. Patronis, I. Duran, R. Dressler, P. Kavrigin, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, E. Mendoza, D. Macina, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Mengoni, A., Lo Meo, S., Castelluccio, D. M., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. NEMEN - Nanoenginyeria de materials aplicats a l'energia, Barbagallo, M., Colonna, N., Aberle, O., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bécares, V., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Barros, S., Bečvář, F., Beinrucker, C., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brugger, M., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Casanovas, A., Castelluccio, D.M., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y.H., Chiaveri, E., Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M.A., Cosentino, L., Damone, L.A., Diakaki, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Göbel, K., García, A.R., Gawlik, A., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I.F., González, E., Goverdovski, A., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heftrich, T., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Katabuchi, T., Kavrigin, P., Ketlerov, V., Khryachkov, V., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Kokkoris, M., Krtička, M., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Leeb, H., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Meo, S. Lo, Lonsdale, S.J., Losito, R., Macina, D., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Matteucci, F., Maugeri, E.A., Mendoza, E., Milazzo, P.M., Mingrone, F., Mirea, M., Montesano, S., Musumarra, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Porras, J.I., Praena, J., Quesada, J.M., Rajeev, K., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Riego-Perez, A., Rout, P.C., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J.A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schmidt, S., Schumann, D., Sedyshev, P., Smith, A.G., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J.L., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tassan-Got, L., Tsinganis, A., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weigand, M., Weiss, C., Wolf, C., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., and Ugec, P.

Subjects
Astrofísica, nTOF, QC1-999, chemistry.chemical_element, Neutron, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Big Bang nucleosynthesis, Nucleosynthesis, CERN, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear astrophysics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Neutrons, Physics, Alpha, Large Hadron Collider, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Stars, chemistry, Lithium, Halo, Nucleosíntesi
Abstract

One of the most puzzling problems in Nuclear Astrophysics is the “Cosmological Lithium Problem”, i.e the discrepancy between the primordial abundance of \(^{7}\)Li observed in metal poor halo stars (Asplund et al. in Astrophys J 644:229–259, 2006, [1]), and the one predicted by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). One of the reactions that could have an impact on the problem is \(^{7}\)Be(n,p)\(^{7}\)Li. Despite of the importance of this reaction in BBN, the cross-section has never been directly measured at the energies of interest for BBN. Taking advantage of the innovative features of the second experimental area at the n\(\_\)TOF facility at CERN (Sabate-Gilarte et al. in Eur Phys J A 53:210, 2017, [2]; Weiss et al. in NIMA 799:90, 2015, [3]), an accurate measurement of \(^{7}\)Be(n,p) cross section has been recently performed at n\(\_\)TOF, with a pure \(^{7}\)Be target produced by implantation of a \(^{7}\)Be beam at ISOLDE. The mesurement started in April 2016 and lasted for two months. The experimental procedure, the setup used in the measurement and the results obtained so far will be here presented.

Published
2017

8. Time-of-flight and activation experiments on 147Pm and 171Tm for astrophysics

Author

E. Leal-Cidoncha, P. M. Milazzo, M. Mastromarco, Rene Reifarth, O. Aberle, Simone Gilardoni, A. Gawlik, J. M. Quesada-Molina, Thomas Rauscher, D. Radeck, Michael Paul, J. Marganiec, R. Cardella, E. Berthoumieux, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, Leonid Weissman, M. Diakaki, M. Kokkoris, A. S. Brown, L. Tassan-Got, Anton Wallner, M. Caamaño, F. Cerutti, M. Tessler, L. Cosentino, J. Balibrea, S. Valenta, G. Cortes, A. Stamatopoulos, Deniz Kurtulgil, A. Oprea, N. V. Sosnin, J. Heyse, Marco Calviani, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, A. G. Smith, A. Kimura, D. Macina, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, J. L. Tain, A. Saxena, A. R. García, F. Gunsing, N. Patronis, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, M. Bacak, I. Duran, P. Schillebeeckx, Philip Woods, S. Halfon, A. Casanovas, P. F. Mastinu, Ulli Köster, J. Lerendegui-Marco, P. Ferreira, Hideo Harada, Alfredo Ferrari, Mario Barbagallo, S. Warren, R. Dressler, Cristian Massimi, V. Variale, A. Kalamara, C. Weiss, D. Schumann, R. Vlastou, G. Tagliente, P. Kavrigin, I. F. Gonçalves, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. C. Rout, E. Mendoza, Y. H. Chen, Alexandru Negret, E. Griesmayer, R. Nolte, L. A. Damone, S. Heinitz, F. Becvar, A. Tsinganis, C. Lederer, A. Masi, E. Jericha, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, F. Käppeler, J. A. Ryan, D. G. Jenkins, E. A. Maugeri, K. Göbel, N. Kivel, Ignacio Porras, Nicola Colonna, E. Dupont, G. Vannini, T. Wright, M. Krtička, E. González, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, B. Fernández-Domínguez, T. Martinez, F. Calviño, L. Audouin, H. Leeb, Alberto Mengoni, J. Perkowski, Carlo Rubbia, V. Vlachoudis, Carlos Guerrero, P. Vaz, Alberto Ventura, A. Musumarra, E. Chiaveri, D. Cano-Ott, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. Billowes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Tècniques Energètiques, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. NEMEN - Nanoenginyeria de materials aplicats a l'energia, Vannini, G., Mengoni, A., Lo Meo, S., Guerrero, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Domingo-Pardo, C., Casanovas, A., Dressler, R., Halfon, S., Heinitz, S., Kivel, N., Köster, U., Paul, M., Quesada-Molina, J.M., Schumann, D., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tessler, M., Weissman, L., Aberle, O., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Balibrea, J., Barbagallo, M., Becvar, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Caamaño, M., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cardella, R., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y.H., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M.A., Cosentino, L., Damone, L.A., Diakaki, M., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferreira, P., Finocchiaro, P., Göbel, K., García, A.R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Gonçalves, I.F., González, E., Griesmayer, E., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kalamara, A., Kavrigin, P., Kimura, A., Kokkoris, M., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Leal-Cidoncha, E., Lederer, C., Leeb, H., Meo, S. Lo, Lonsdale, S.J., Macina, D., Marganiec, J., Martínez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E.A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Milazzo, P.M., Mingrone, F., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Porras, I., Praena, J., Radeck, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rout, P.C., Rubbia, C., Ryan, J.A., Sabaté-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Smith, A.G., Sosnin, N.V., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J.L., Tassan-Got, L., Tsinganis, A., Valenta, S., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Warren, S., Weiss, C., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., Ugec, P., and Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear

Subjects
QC1-999, Neutron, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Stellar nucleosynthesis, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Neutrons, Isotope, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Tof, Time of flight, Neutron capture, 13. Climate action, Nucleosíntesi
Abstract

The neutron capture cross section of several key unstable isotopes acting as branching points in the s-process are crucial for stellar nucleosynthesis studies, but they are very challenging to measure due to the difficult production of sufficient sample material, the high activity of the resulting samples, and the actual (n,γ ) measurement, for which high neutron fluxes and effective background rejection capabilities are required. As part of a new program to measure some of these important branching points, radioactive targets of 147Pm and 171Tm have been produced by irradiation of stable isotopes at the ILL high flux reactor. Neutron capture on 146Nd and 170Er at the reactor was followed by beta decay and the resulting matrix was purified via radiochemical separation at PSI. The radioactive targets have been used for time-of-flight measurements at the CERN n TOF facility using the 19 and 185m beam lines during 2014 and 2015. The capture cascades were detected using a set of four C6D6 scintillators, allowing to observe the associated neutron capture resonances. The results presented in this work are the first ever determination of the resonance capture cross section of 147Pm and 171Tm. Activation experiments on the same 147Pm and 171Tm targets with a high-intensity 30 keV quasi-Maxwellian flux of neutrons will be performed using the SARAF accelerator and the Liquid-Lithium Target (LiLiT) in order to extract the corresponding Maxwellian Average Cross Section (MACS). The status of these experiments and preliminary results will be presented and discussed as well., The authors acknowledge financial support by Spanish FPA2013-45083-P and FPA2014-53290-C2-2-P projects and the EC FP7 projects NeutAndalus (Grant No. 334315) and CHANDA (Grant No. 605203).

Published
2017

9. Be7(n,α)He4Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN

Author

D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Rugard Dressler, P. C. Rout, C. Rubbia, W.I. Furman, P. V. Sedyshev, Y. H. Chen, A. Kimura, L. Cosentino, Srinivasan Ganesan, M. Mastromarco, A. Tsinganis, G. Vannini, A. García-Rios, F. Mingrone, C. Lederer, Anton Wallner, Nicola Colonna, J. Andrzejewski, M. Caamaño, A. Casanovas, Mario Barbagallo, Vasilis Vlachoudis, G. Cortes, M. Krtička, P. Kavrigin, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Ralf Nolte, H. Leeb, Arnaud Ferrari, Ignacio Porras, Damir Bosnar, A. Oprea, T. Martinez, Mario Weigand, A. Stamatopoulos, E. Griesmayer, J. Billowes, L. A. Damone, Hideo Harada, M. Mirea, P. Ferreira, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, S. Montesano, D. Cano-Ott, F. Calviño, R. Cardella, J. Perkowski, J. Vollaire, E. A. Maugeri, F. Gunsing, J. Balibrea-Correa, G. Tagliente, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, Cristian Massimi, M. Kokkoris, O. Aberle, E. Jericha, F. Bečvář, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, T. Glodariu, Paolo Finocchiaro, M. Piscopo, M. Bacak, Dorothea Schumann, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, J. A. Ryan, E. Mendoza, D. G. Jenkins, E. Leal-Cidoncha, I. Duran, M. Diakaki, P. Vaz, C. Weiß, Roberto Losito, Peter Schillebeeckx, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, K. Rajeev, P. M. Milazzo, J. Marganiec, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, C. Beinrucker, A. Pavlik, S. Valenta, C. Domingo-Pardo, V. Bécares, E. González-Romero, Marco Calviani, Alfio Pappalardo, A. Mengoni, A. G. Smith, Philip Woods, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Käppeler, M. Ayranov, J. L. Tain, M. Brugger, I. F. Gonçalves, Niko Kivel, S. Heinitz, S. Altstadt, S. Warren, V. Variale, S. Barros, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A. Ventura, Rene Reifarth, Stefan Schmidt, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Sergio Cristallo, A. Musumarra, Tanja Heftrich, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, A. Riego-Perez, Kathrin Göbel, Jan Heyse, R. Vlastou, E. Berthoumieux, L. Audouin, T. J. Wright, C. Wolf, E. Dupont, J. Lerendegui, A. J. M. Plompen, and D. M. Castelluccio

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Alpha particle, Neutron radiation, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Lithium, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

The energy-dependent cross section of the (7)Bed(n,alpha)He-4 reaction, of interest for the so-called cosmological lithium problem in big bang nucleosynthesis, has been measured for the first time from 10 meV to 10 keV neutron energy. The challenges posed by the short half-life of Be-7 and by the low reaction cross section have been overcome at n_TOF thanks to an unprecedented combination of the extremely high luminosity and good resolution of the neutron beam in the new experimental area (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility at CERN, the availability of a sufficient amount of chemically pure Be-7, and a specifically designed experimental setup. Coincidences between the two alpha particles have been recorded in two Si-Be-7-Si arrays placed directly in the neutron beam. The present results are consistent, at thermal neutron energy, with the only previous measurement performed in the 1960s at a nuclear reactor. The energy dependence reported here clearly indicates the inadequacy of the cross section estimates currently used in BBN calculations. Although new measurements at higher neutron energy may still be needed, the n_TOF results hint at a minor role of this reaction in BBN, leaving the long-standing cosmological lithium problem unsolved.

Published
2016

10. Helium Behaviour In Stoichiometric And Hyper-Stoichiometric Uo2

Author

Philippe E. Raison, Jean-Yves Colle, E.-A. Maugeri, Zeynep Talip, Thierry Wiss, E. Gilabert, D. Staicu, R.J.M. Konings, M. Ernstberger, Radioactivite Environnement (RADEN), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), and 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)-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)

Subjects
Diffraction, Materials science, Scanning electron microscope, Diffusion, Analytical chemistry, Thermal desorption, Mineralogy, chemistry.chemical_element, 02 engineering and technology, UO2, Helium, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Hyper-stoichiometric UO2, 0103 physical sciences, Materials Chemistry, U3O8, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Thermogravimetry, chemistry, Ceramics and Composites, Crystallite, 0210 nano-technology, Stoichiometry
Abstract

Understanding the long-term behaviour of the UO2 spent fuel in terms of helium build-up and oxidation is a very important issue for safety aspects of storage and disposal. Although helium behaviour in stoichiometric UO2 has been studied by many authors, it has not been well established and there is a lack of experimental studies in non-stoichiometric UO2. In this study, an infusion technique was chosen to introduce helium in stoichiometric and hyperstoichiometric single and polycrystalline UO2 and polycrystalline U3O8 samples. Characterization of the samples before and after infusion and after thermal desorption measurements were performed by thermogravimetry, X-ray diffraction, laser flash technique and scanning electron microscopy. It was observed that the increase of stoichiometry in UO2 affects barely the dissolved helium quantity (under the same infusion conditions as in stoichiometric), while it has a more pronounced influence on the helium diffusion. These two effects are much more pronounced for U3O8. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Published
2014

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