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1. Status report of the n_TOF facility after the 2nd CERN long shutdown period

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N. Patronis, A. Mengoni, S. Goula, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, S. Altieri, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea Correa, C. Beltrami, S. Bennett, A. P. Bernardes, E. Berthoumieux, R. Beyer, M. Boromiza, D. Bosnar, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, D. M. Castelluccio, F. Cerutti, G. Cescutti, S. Chasapoglou, E. Chiaveri, P. Colombetti, N. Colonna, P. Console Camprini, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, S. Dellmann, M. Di Castro, S. Di Maria, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, S. Fargier, B. Fernández, B. Fernández-Domínguez, P. Finocchiaro, S. Fiore, F. García-Infantes, A. Gawlik-Ramiega, G. Gervino, S. Gilardoni, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, C. Gustavino, J. Heyse, W. Hillman, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, A. Junghans, Y. Kadi, K. Kaperoni, G. Kaur, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, N. Kyritsis, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, J. Lerendegui-Marco, G. Lerner, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, R. Mucciola, F. Murtas, E. Musacchio-Gonzalez, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, A. Pérez de Rada, P. Pérez-Maroto, J. A. Pavón-Rodríguez, M. G. Pellegriti, J. Perkowski, C. Petrone, E. Pirovano, J. Plaza del Olmo, S. Pomp, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, Y. Romanets, C. Rubbia, A. Sánchez-Caballero, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, M. E. Stamati, A. Sturniolo, G. Tagliente, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, D. Tarrío, P. Torres-Sánchez, E. Vagena, S. Valenta, V. Variale, P. Vaz, G. Vecchio, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, R. Zarrella, and P. Zugec

Subjects
Neutron time of flight, Spallation target, Nuclear astrophysics, Neutron physics, Neutron induced fission, Neutron reactions, Physics, QC1-999, Optics. Light, QC350-467, Descriptive and experimental mechanics, QC120-168.85
Abstract

Abstract During the second long shutdown period of the CERN accelerator complex (LS2, 2019-2021), several upgrade activities took place at the n_TOF facility. The most important have been the replacement of the spallation target with a next generation nitrogen-cooled lead target. Additionally, a new experimental area, at a very short distance from the target assembly (the NEAR Station) was established. In this paper, the core commissioning actions of the new installations are described. The improvement in the n_TOF infrastructure was accompanied by several detector development projects. All these upgrade actions are discussed, focusing mostly on the future perspectives of the n_TOF facility. Furthermore, some indicative current and future measurements are briefly reported.

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2023
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2. Corrigendum: 'Measurement of 73Ge(n,γ) cross sections and implications for stellar nucleosynthesis' [Phys. Lett. B 790 (2019) 458–465]

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C. Lederer-Woods, U. Battino, P. Ferreira, A. Gawlik, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, J. Lerendegui-Marco, A. Mengoni, R. Reifarth, A. Tattersall, S. Valenta, C. Weiss, O. Aberle, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Bécares, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, M. Barbagallo, S. Barros, F. Bečvář, C. Beinrucker, F. Belloni, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, M. Brugger, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortés, M.A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, L.A. Damone, K. Deo, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, P. Finocchiaro, R.J.W. Frost, V. Furman, K. Göbel, A.R. García, I. Gheorghe, T. Glodariu, I.F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, A. Goverdovski, E. Griesmayer, H. Harada, T. Heftrich, A. Hernández-Prieto, J. Heyse, D.G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, T. Katabuchi, P. Kavrigin, V. Ketlerov, V. Khryachkov, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, I. Knapova, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, E. Leal-Cidoncha, H. Leeb, M. Licata, S. Lo Meo, R. Losito, D. Macina, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, F. Matteucci, E. Mendoza, P.M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, M. Mirea, S. Montesano, A. Musumarra, R. Nolte, F.R. Palomo-Pinto, C. Paradela, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, J.I. Porras, J. Praena, J.M. Quesada, T. Rauscher, A. Riego-Perez, M. Robles, C. Rubbia, J.A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, A.G. Smith, A. Stamatopoulos, S.V. Suryanarayana, G. Tagliente, J.L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, A. Tsinganis, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, S. Warren, M. Weigand, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Published
2023
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3. Measurement of 73Ge(n,γ) cross sections and implications for stellar nucleosynthesis

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C. Lederer-Woods, U. Battino, P. Ferreira, A. Gawlik, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, J. Lerendegui-Marco, A. Mengoni, R. Reifarth, A. Tattersall, S. Valenta, C. Weiss, O. Aberle, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Bécares, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, M. Barbagallo, S. Barros, F. Bečvář, C. Beinrucker, F. Belloni, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, M. Brugger, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortés, M.A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, L.A. Damone, K. Deo, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, P. Finocchiaro, R.J.W. Frost, V. Furman, K. Göbel, A.R. García, I. Gheorghe, T. Glodariu, I.F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, A. Goverdovski, E. Griesmayer, H. Harada, T. Heftrich, A. Hernández-Prieto, J. Heyse, D.G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, T. Katabuchi, P. Kavrigin, V. Ketlerov, V. Khryachkov, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, I. Knapova, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, E. Leal-Cidoncha, H. Leeb, M. Licata, S. Lo Meo, R. Losito, D. Macina, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, F. Matteucci, E. Mendoza, P.M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, M. Mirea, S. Montesano, A. Musumarra, R. Nolte, F.R. Palomo-Pinto, C. Paradela, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, J.I. Porras, J. Praena, J.M. Quesada, T. Rauscher, A. Riego-Perez, M. Robles, C. Rubbia, J.A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, A.G. Smith, A. Stamatopoulos, S.V. Suryanarayana, G. Tagliente, J.L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, A. Tsinganis, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, S. Warren, M. Weigand, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

73Ge(n,γ) cross sections were measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN up to neutron energies of 300 keV, providing for the first time experimental data above 8 keV. Results indicate that the stellar cross section at kT=30 keV is 1.5 to 1.7 times higher than most theoretical predictions. The new cross sections result in a substantial decrease of 73Ge produced in stars, which would explain the low isotopic abundance of 73Ge in the solar system. Keywords: Nucleosynthesis, Neutron capture, s process, Germanium, n_TOF

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2019
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4. Measurement of the 154Gd(n,γ) cross section and its astrophysical implications

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A. Mazzone, S. Cristallo, O. Aberle, G. Alaerts, V. Alcayne, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, M. Barbagallo, V. Bécares, F. Bečvář, G. Bellia, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A.S. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero, M. Calviani, F. Calviño, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, D.M. Castelluccio, F. Cerutti, Y.H. Chen, E. Chiaveri, G. Clai, N. Colonna, G.P. Cortés, M.A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, L.A. Damone, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Ferrari, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, P. Finocchiaro, V. Furman, R. Garg, A. Gawlik, S. Gilardoni, T. Glodariu, K. Göbel, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D.G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, Y. Kadi, F. Käppeler, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, S. Kopecky, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Lo Meo, S.-J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P.F. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, F. Matteucci, E. Maugeri, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, V. Michalopoulou, P.M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, R. Mucciola, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, R. Nolte, F. Ogállar, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, L. Piersanti, I. Porras, J. Praena, J.M. Quesada, D. Radeck, D. Ramos Doval, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A.G. Smith, N. Sosnin, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J.L. Tain, Z. Talip, A.E. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P.J. Woods, R. Wynants, T.J. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The neutron capture cross section of 154Gd was measured from 1 eV to 300 keV in the experimental area located 185 m from the CERN n_TOF neutron spallation source, using a metallic sample of gadolinium, enriched to 67% in 154Gd. The capture measurement, performed with four C6D6 scintillation detectors, has been complemented by a transmission measurement performed at the GELINA time-of-flight facility (JRC-Geel), thus minimising the uncertainty related to sample composition. An accurate Maxwellian averaged capture cross section (MACS) was deduced over the temperature range of interest for s process nucleosynthesis modelling. We report a value of 880(50) mb for the MACS at kT=30 keV, significantly lower compared to values available in literature. The new adopted 154Gd(n,γ) cross section reduces the discrepancy between observed and calculated solar s-only isotopic abundances predicted by s-process nucleosynthesis models. Keywords: s process, 154Gd, Neutron time of flight, n_TOF

Published
2020
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6. The s-process in the Nd-Pm-Sm region: Neutron activation of 147Pm

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C. Guerrero, M. Tessler, M. Paul, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Heinitz, E.A. Maugeri, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, S. Halfon, N. Kivel, U. Köster, T. Palchan-Hazan, J.M. Quesada, D. Schumann, and L. Weissman

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The Nd-Pm-Sm branching is of interest for the study of the s-process, related to the production of heavy elements in stars. As 148Sm and 150Sm are s-only isotopes, the understanding of the branching allows constraining the s-process neutron density. In this context the key physics input needed is the cross section of the three unstable nuclides in the region: 147Nd (10.98 d half-life), 147Pm (2.62 yr) and 148Pm (5.37 d). This paper reports on the activation measurement of 147Pm, the longest-lived of the three nuclides. The cross section measurement has been carried out by activation at the SARAF LiLiT facility using a 56(2) μg target. Compared to the single previous measurement of 147Pm, the measurement presented herein benefits from a target 2000 times more massive. The resulting Maxwellian Averaged Cross Section (MACS) to the ground and metastable states in 148Pm are 469(50) mb and 357(27) mb. These values are 41% higher (to the ground state) and 15% lower (to the metastable state) than the values reported so far, leading however to a total cross section of 826(107) mb consistent within uncertainties with the previous result and hence leaving unchanged the previous calculation of the s-process neutron density. Keywords: Nucleosynthesis, Neutron capture, Nuclear reactions, s-process, MACS, Neutron activation

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2019
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7. Neutron-induced cross section measurements

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C. Massimi, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, S. Altieri, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, C. Beltrami, S. Bennett, A. P. Bernardes, E. Berthoumieux, M. Boromiza, D. Bosnar, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, D. M. Castelluccio, F. Cerutti, G. Cescutti, S. Chasapoglou, E. Chiaveri, P. Colombetti, N. Colonna, P. Console Camprini, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, S. Dellmann, M. Di Castro, S. Di Maria, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, S. Fargier, B. Fernández, B. Fernández-Domínguez, P. Finocchiaro, S. Fiore, V. Furman, F. GarcíaInfantes, A. Gawlik-Ramięga, G. Gervino, S. Gilardoni, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, C. Gustavino, J. Heyse, W. Hillman, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, A. Junghans, Y. Kadi, K. Kaperoni, G. Kaur, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, M. Krtička, N. Kyritsis, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, J. Lerendegui-Marco, G. Lerner, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, R. Mucciola, F. Murtas, E. Musacchio-Gonzalez, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, A. Pérez de Rada, P. Pérez-Maroto, N. Patronis, J. A. Pavón-Rodríguez, M. G. Pellegriti, J. Perkowski, C. Petrone, E. Pirovano, J. Plaza, S. Pomp, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, Y. Romanets, C. Rubbia, A. Sánchez, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, M. E. Stamati, A. Sturniolo, G. Tagliente, D. Tarrío, P. Torres-Sánchez, S. Urlass, E. Vagena, S. Valenta, V. Variale, P. Vaz, G. Vecchio, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, R. Zarrella, P. Žugec, Freeman, S., Lederer-Woods, C., Manna, A., and Mengoni, A.

Subjects
Subatomär fysik, cross section, n_TOF, neutron time of flight, Subatomic Physics, General Medicine
Abstract

Neutron-induced cross sections represent the main nuclear input to models of stellar and Big-Bang nucleosynthesis. While (n,γ) reactions are relevant for the formation of elements heavier than iron, (n,p) and (n,α) reactions can play an important role in specific cases. The time-of-flight method is routinely used at n_TOF to experimentally determine the cross section data. In addition, recent upgrades of the facility will allow the use of activation techniques as well, possibly opening the way to a systematic study of neutron interaction with radioactive isotopes. In the last 20 years n_TOF has provided a large amount of experimental data for Nuclear Astrophysics. Our plan is to carry on challenging measurements and produce nuclear data in the next decades as well.

Published
2023

8. High accuracy, high resolution $^{235}$U(n,f) cross section from n_TOF (CERN) from 18 meV to 10 keV

Author

M. Mastromarco, S. Amaducci, N. Colonna, P. Finocchiaro, L. Cosentino, M. Barbagallo, O. Aberle, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, F. Bečvář, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, R. Cardella, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, Y. H. Chen, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. A. Damone, M. Diakaki, C. Domingo-Pardo, D. Diacono, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, P. Ferreira, V. Furman, K. Göbel, A. R. García, A. Gawlik, S. Gilardoni, T. Glodariu, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, H. Harada, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, A. Kalamara, P. Kavrigin, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, I. Knapova, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Lederer, H. Leeb, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Lo Meo, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, R. Nolte, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Radeck, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, C. Rubbia, J. A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, S. Warren, C. Weiss, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, P. Žugec, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Mastromarco, M, Amaducci, S, Colonna, N, Finocchiaro, P, Cosentino, L, Barbagallo, M, Aberle, O, Andrzejewski, J, Audouin, L, Bacak, M, Balibrea, J, Becvar, F, Berthoumieux, E, Billowes, J, Bosnar, D, Brown, A, Caamano, M, Calvino, F, Calviani, M, Cano-Ott, D, Cardella, R, Casanovas, A, Cerutti, F, Chen, YH, Chiaveri, E, Cortes, G, Cortes-Giraldo, MA, Damone, LA, Diakaki, M, Domingo-Pardo, C, Diacono, D, Dressler, R, Dupont, E, Duran, I, Fernandez-Dominguez, B, Ferrari, A, Ferreira, P, Furman, V, Gobel, K, Garcia, AR, Gawlik, A, Gilardoni, S, Glodariu, T, Goncalves, IF, Gonzalez-Romero, E, Griesmayer, E, Guerrero, C, Gunsing, F, Harada, H, Heinitz, S, Heyse, J, Jenkins, DG, 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, Leeb, H, Lerendegui-Marco, J, LoMeo, S, Lonsdale, SJ, Macina, D, Manna, A, Marganiec, J, Martinez, T, Masi, A, Massimi, C, Mastinu, P, Maugeri, EA, Mazzone, A, Mendoza, E, Mengoni, A, Milazzo, PM, Mingrone, F, Musumarra, A, Negret, A, Nolte, R, Oprea, A, Patronis, N, Pavlik, A, Perkowski, J, Porras, I, Praena, J, Quesada, JM, Radeck, D, Rauscher, T, Reifarth, R, Rubbia, C, Ryan, JA, Sabate-Gilarte, M, Saxena, A, Schillebeeckx, P, Schumann, D, Sedyshev, P, Smith, AG, Sosnin, NV, Stamatopoulos, A, Tagliente, G, Tain, JL, Tarifeno-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, PJ, Wright, T, Zugec, P, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-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, and n_TOF

Subjects
Neutrons, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Fission, Energies [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Nuclear physics, 235U, fission, cross section, n_TOF, CERN, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Espectroscòpia de ressonància magnètica nuclear, Resonance, n_TOF, cross section, 235U, CERN, Física nuclear, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Neutron energy
Abstract

The 235U(n,f) cross section was measured in a wide energy range (18 meV–170 keV) at the n_TOF facility at CERN, relative to 6Li(n,t) and 10B(n,α) standard reactions, with high resolution and accuracy, with a setup based on a stack of six samples and six silicon detectors placed in the neutron beam. In this paper we report on the results in the region between 18 meV and 10 keV neutron energy. A resonance analysis has been performed up to 200 eV, with the code SAMMY. The resulting fission kernels are compared with the ones extracted on the basis of the resonance parameters of the most recent major evaluated data libraries.Acomparison of the n_TOF datawith the evaluated cross sections is also performed from thermal to 10 keV neutron energy for the energy-averaged cross section in energy groups of suitably chosen width. A good agreement, within 0.5%, is found on average between the new results and the latest evaluated data files ENDF/B-VIII.0 and JEFF-3.3, as well as with respect to the broad group average fission cross section established in the framework of the standard working group of IAEA (the so-called reference file). However, some discrepancies, of up to 4%, are still present in some specific energy regions. The newdataset here presented, characterized by a unique combination of high resolution and accuracy, low background and wide energy range, can help to improve the evaluations from the Resolved Resonance Region up to 10 keV, also reducing the uncertainties that affect this region., CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Published
2022

9. Hybrid in-beam PET- and Compton prompt-gamma imaging aimed at enhanced proton-range verification

Author

J. Balibrea-Correa, J. Lerendegui-Marco, I. Ladarescu, C. Guerrero, T. Rodríguez-González, M. C. Jiménez-Ramos, B. Fernández-Martínez, C. Domingo-Pardo, Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), and Generalitat Valenciana

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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, Physics::Accelerator Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Medical Physics (physics.med-ph), Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Physics - Medical Physics
Abstract

We report on a hybrid in-beam PET and prompt-gamma Compton imaging system aimed at quasi real-time ion-range verification in proton-therapy treatments. Proof-of-concept experiments were carried out at the radiobiology beam line of the CNA cyclotron facility using a set of two synchronous Compton imagers and different target materials. The time structure of the 18 MeV proton beam was shaped with a series of beam-on and beam-off intervals, thereby mimicking a pulsed proton beam on a long time scale. During beam-on intervals, Compton imaging was performed utilizing the high energy γ-rays promptly emitted from the nuclear reactions occurring in the targets. In the course of the beam-off intervals in situ positron-emission tomography was accomplished with the same imagers using the β decay of activated nuclei. The targets used were stacks of different materials covering also various proton ranges and energies. A systematic study on the performance of these two complementary imaging techniques is reported and the experimental results interpreted on the basis of Monte Carlo calculations. The results demonstrate the possibility to combine both imaging techniques in a concomitant way, where high-efficiency prompt-gamma imaging is complemented with the high spatial accuracy of PET. Empowered by these results we suggest that a pulsed beam with a suitable duty cycle, in conjunction with in situ Compton- and PET-imaging may help to attain complementary information and quasi real-time range monitoring with high accuracy., Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with springer nature. This work has been carried out in the framework of a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Consolidator Grant project HYMNS, with grant agreement No.~681740). The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under grants PID2019-104714GB-C21, FPA2017-83946-C2-1-P, FIS2015-71688-ERC, FPA2016-77689-C2-1-R, RTI2018-098117-B-C21, CSIC for funding PIE-201750I26 and from the European H2020-847552 (SANDA). This work was partially supported by Generalitat Valenciana PROMETEO/2019/007. J. Balibrea-Correa is supported by grant ICJ220-045122-I funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. J. Lerendegui-Marco is supported by grant FJC2020-044688-I funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by European UnionNextGenerationEU/PRTR.

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2022
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10. Results of the 244Cm, 246Cm and 248Cm neutron-induced capture cross sections measurements at EAR1 and EAR2 of the n_TOF facility

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V. Alcayne, E. Mendoza, D. Cano-Ott, A. Kimura, O. Aberle, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, M. Barbagallo, V. Bécares, F. Bečvář, G. Bellia, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. S. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero, M. Calviani, F. Calviño, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, Y. H. Chen, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. P. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, L. A. Damone, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Ferrari, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, P. Finocchiaro, V. Furman, R. Garg, A. Gawlik, S. Gilardoni, T. Glodariu, K. Göbel, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, Y. Kadi, F. Käppeler, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Lo Meo, S.-J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. F. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, F. Matteucci, E. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, A. Mengoni, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, R. Nolte, F. Ogállar, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, L. Piersanti, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Radeck, D. Ramos Doval, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. G. Smith, N. Sosnin, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, Z. Talip, A. E. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. J. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

Accurate neutron capture cross section data for minor actinides (MAs) are required to estimate the production and transmutation rates of MAs in light water reactors, critical fast reactors like Gen-IV systems, and other innovative reactor systems such as accelerator driven systems (ADS). In particular, 244Cm, 246Cm and 248Cm play a role in the transport, storage and transmutation of the nuclear waste of the current nuclear reactors, due to the contribution of these isotopes to the radiotoxicity, neutron emission, and decay heat in the spent nuclear fuel. Also, capture reactions in these Cm isotopes open the path for the formation of heavier elements. In this work, the results of the capture cross section measurement on 244Cm, 246Cm and 248Cm performed at the CERN n_TOF facility are presented. It is important to notice that the Cm samples used in the experiment at n_TOF have been used previously in an experiment at J-PARC, this experiment and the previous one done in the 70s with a nuclear explosion were the only previous capture experiments for these isotopes. At n_TOF, the capture cross section measurements of 244Cm, 246Cm and 248Cm were performed at the 20 m vertical flight path (EAR2) with three C6D6 total energy detectors. In addition, the cross section of 244Cm was measured at the 185 m flight path (EAR1) with a Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC). The combination of measurements in EAR1 and EAR2 has contributed to controlling and reducing the systematic uncertainties in the results. The compatibility of the different measurements performed and the techniques to obtain the results are presented in this paper as well as the procedure to obtain the resonance parameters.

Published
2023

11. β-delayed neutron spectroscopy of 85As with MONSTER

Author

A. Pérez de Rada, D. Cano-Ott, T. Martínez, V. Alcayne, E. Mendoza, J. Plaza, A. Sanchez-Caballero, D. Villamarín, J. Äystö, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, H. Penttilä, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Agramunt, A. Algora, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J.L. Taín, K. Banerjee, C. Bhattacharya, P. Roy, F. Calviño, G. Cortés, C. Delafosse, I. Matea, J. Benito, S. Alhomaidhi, and A.K. Mistry

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

The β-delayed neutron emission in the 85As β-decay has been measured at the IGISOL facility of the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä (JYFL). The complete β-decay has been studied with a setup which consists of a plastic scintillator, the MOdular Neutron time-of-flight SpectromeTER (MONSTER), and two types of γ-rays detectors (HPGe and LaBr3). The, β-delayed neutron energy distribution has been determined by unfolding the TOF spectrum with the iterative Bayesian unfolding method.

Published
2023

12. Overview of the dissemination of n_TOF experimental data and resonance parameters

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E. Dupont, N. Otuka, D. Rochman, G. Nogèure, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, S. Altieri, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, C. Beltrami, S. Bennett, A.P. Bernardes, E. Berthoumieux, R. Beyer, M. Boromiza, D. Bosnar, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, G. Cescutti, E. Chiaveri, P. Colombetti, N. Colonna, P. Console Camprini, G. Cortés, M.A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, S. Dellmann, M. Di Castro, S. Di Maria, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, S. Fargier, B. Fernández, B. Fernández-Domínguez, P. Finocchiaro, S. Fiore, V. Furman, F. García-Infantes, A. Gawlik-Ramięga, G. Gervino, S. Gilardoni, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, C. Gustavino, J. Heyse, W. Hillman, G.D. Jenkins, E. Jericha, A. Junghans, Y. Kadi, K. Kaperoni, G. Kaur, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, M. Krtička, N. Kyritsis, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, J. Lerendegui-Marco, G. Lerner, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E.A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, V. Michalopoulou, P.M. Milazzo, R. Mucciola, F. Murtas, E. Musacchio-Gonzalez, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, A. Pérez de Rada, P. Pérez-Maroto, N. Patronis, J.A. Pavón-Rodrgíuez, M.G. Pellegriti, J. Perkowski, C. Petrone, E. Pirovano, J. Plaza, S. Pomp, I. Porras, J. Praena, J.M. Quesada, R. Reifarth, Y. Romanets, C. Rubbia, A. Sánchez-Caballero, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A.G. Smith, N.V. Sosnin, M.E. Stamati, A. Sturniolo, G. Tagliente, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, D. Taríro, P. Torres-Sánchez, E. Vagena, S. Valenta, V. Variale, P. Vaz, G. Vecchio, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P.J. Woods, T. Wright, R. Zarrella, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

The n_TOF neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN is used for nuclear data measurements. The n_TOF Collaboration works closely with the Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (NRDC) network to disseminate the experimental data through the international EXFOR library. In addition, the Collaboration helps integrate the results in the evaluated library projects. The present contribution describes the dissemination status of n_TOF results, their impact on evaluated libraries and ongoing efforts to provide n_TOF resonance parameters in ENDF-6 format for further use by evaluation projects.

Published
2023

13. Measurement of the 241Am(n,γ) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN

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A. Oprea, F. Gunsing, P. Schillebeeckx, O. Aberle, M. Bacak, E. Berthoumieux, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, E. Dupont, B. Geslot, T. Glodariu†, J. Heyse, E. Mendoza, A. Negret, V. Alcayne, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Bécares, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Barbagallo, F. Bečvář, G. Bellia, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero-Ontanaya, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, Y. H. Chen, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, L. A. Damone, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, P. Finocchiaro, V. Furman, K. Göbel, R. Garg, A. Gawlik-Ramięga, S. Gilardoni, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, H. Harada, S. Heinitz, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler†, G. Kaur, Y. Kadi, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, H. Leeb, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Lo Meo, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, F. Matteucci, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, A. Mengoni, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, A. Musumarra, R. Nolte, F. Ogállar, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, L. Piersanti, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Radeck, D. Ramos-Doval, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, D. Schumann, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, T. Talip, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

The neutron capture cross section of 241Am is an important quantity for nuclear energy production and fuel cycle scenarios. Several measurements have been performed in recent years with the aim to reduce existing uncertainties in evaluated data. Two previous measurements, performed at the 185 m flight-path station EAR1 of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN, have permitted to substantially extend the resolved resonance region, but suffered in the near-thermal energy range from the unfavorable signal-to-background ratio resulting from the combination of the high radioactivity of 241Am and the rather low thermal neutron flux. The here presented 241Am(n,γ) measurement, performed with C6D6 liquid scintillator gamma detectors at the 20 m flight-path station EAR2 of the n_TOF facility, took advantage of the much higher neutron flux. The current status of the analysis of the data, focussed on the low-energy region, will be described here.

Published
2023

14. The Stellar 72Ge(n, γ) Cross Section for weak s-process: A First Measurement at n_TOF

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M. Dietz, C. Lederer-Woods, A. Tattersall, U. Battino, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, J. Lerendegui-Marco, M. Krtička, R. Reifarth, S. Valenta, O. Aberle, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, M. Barbagallo, F. Bečvář, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, R. Cardella, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, Y. H. Chen, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. Cosentino, L. A. Damone, M. Diakaki, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, P. Ferreira, P. Finocchiaro, K. Göbel, A. R. García, A. Gawlik-Ramie˛ga, S. Gilardoni, T. Glodariu†, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero, H. Harada, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler†, Y. Kadi, D. Kahl, A. Kalamara, P. Kavrigin, A. Kimura, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, D. Kurtulgil, E. Leal-Cidoncha, H. Leeb, S. Lo Meo, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, A. Masi, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, R. Nolte, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Radeck, T. Rauscher, C. Rubbia, J. A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, S. Warren, C. Weiss, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

The slow neutron capture process (s-process) is responsible for producing about half of the elemental abundances heavier than iron in the universe. Neutron capture cross sections on stable isotopes are a key nuclear physics input for s-process studies. The 72Ge(n, γ) Maxwellian-Averaged Cross Section (MACS) has an important influence on the production of isotopes between Ge and Zr in the weak s-process in massive stars and so far only theoretical estimations are available. An experiment was carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN to measure the 72Ge(n, γ) reaction for the first time at stellar neutron energies. The capture measurement was performed using an enriched 72GeO2 sample at a flight path length of 184 m, which provided high neutron energy resolution. The prompt gamma rays produced after neutron capture were detected with a set of liquid scintillation detectors (C6D6). The neutron capture yield is derived from the counting spectra taking into account the neutron flux and the gamma-ray detection efficiency using the Pulse Height Weighting Technique. Over 70 new neutron resonances were identified, providing an improved resolved reaction cross section to calculate experimental MACS values for the first time. The experiment, data analysis and the new MACS results will be presented including their impact on stellar nucleosynthesis, which was investigated using the post-processing nucleosynthesis code mppnp for a 25 solar mass model.

Published
2023

15. Detector set up for the measurements of the neutron-induced fission cross section of 235U relative to n-p scattering up to 150 MeV at CERN-n_TOF

Author

E. Pirovano, A. Manna, N. Colonna, P. Console Camprini, L. Cosentino, M. Dietz, Q. Ducasse, P. Finocchiaro, C. Massimi, A. Mengoni, R. Nolte, D. Radeck, L. Tassan-Got, N. Terranova, A. Ventura, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, M. Barbagallo, S. Bennett, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero-Ontanaya, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, S. Cristallo, L. A. Damone, P. J. Davies, M. Diakaki, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, K. Göbel, R. Garg, A. Gawlik-Ramie˛ga, S. Gilardoni, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, H. Harada, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, A. Junghans, F. Käppeler†, Y. Kadi, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, H. Leeb, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, T. Martínez, A. Masi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, J. Moreno-Soto, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, F. Ogállar, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, L. Piersanti, C. Petrone, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Ramos-Doval, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, P. Sprung, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, Th. Thomas, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

A new measurement of the 235U(n,f) fission cross section was carried out at n_TOF. The experiment covered the neutron energy range from 10 MeV up to 500 MeV, and it used the 1H(n,n) cross section as normalization for the neutron fluence measurement. In this contribution, the measurements and the characterization of the detectors covering the incident energy range up to 150 MeV are discussed.

Published
2023

16. Characterization of a detector setup for the measurement of the 235U(n,f) cross section relative to n-p scattering up to 500 MeV at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author

A. Manna, E. Pirovano, N. Colonna, D. Castelluccio, P. Console Camprini, L. Cosentino, M. Dietz, Q. Ducasse, P. Finocchiaro, C. Le Naour, C. Massimi, A. Mengoni, R. Nolte, L. Tassan-Got, N. Terranova, G. Vannini, A. Ventura, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, M. Barbagallo, S. Bennett, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero-Ontanaya, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, S. Cristallo, L. A. Damone, P. J. Davies, M. Diakaki, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, K. Göbel, R. Garg, R. A. Gawlik-Ramiega, S. Gilardoni, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, H. Harada, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, A. Junghans, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, H. Leeb, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, T. Martínez, A. Masi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mazzone, E. Mendoza, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, J. Moreno-Soto, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, F. Ogállar, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, L. Piersanti, C. Petrone, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Ramos-Doval, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, P. Sprung, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, Th. Thomas, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, S. Valenta, V. Variale, P. Vaz, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

The measurement of the 235U(n,f) reaction cross section in the neutron energy region 10 MeV to 500 MeV was carried out at the CERN n_TOF facility. The experimental campaign, completed in 2018, provided precise and accurate data on the fission reaction relative to neutron-proton elastic scattering. A description and characterization of the used setup for the simultaneous measurement of fission fragments and neutron flux is reported here.

Published
2023

18. Measurement of the Ge76(n,γ) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author

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

Subjects
Croatian, Physics, Czech, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, European research, 0103 physical sciences, language, Library science, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, language.human_language
Abstract

This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (J3503), the Adolf Messer Foundation (Germany), the UK Science and Facilities Council (ST/M006085/1), and the European Research Council ERC-2015-StG No. 677497. We also acknowledge support of Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) under the grant (UMO-2016/22/M/ST2/00183) and University of Lodz under the grant (9/IDUB/MLOD/2021), MEYS of the Czech Republic, the Charles University project UNCE/SCI/013, and the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2018-01-8570.

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2021

19. Destruction of the cosmic γ -ray emitter Al26 in massive stars: Study of the key Al26(n,α) reaction

Author

M. Caamaño, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, M. Bacak, T. Davinson, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, E. González-Romero, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, T. Glodariu, M. Mastromarco, D. Cano-Ott, G. Cortes, G. Tagliente, M. Diakaki, Alexandru Negret, C. Weiss, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Käppeler, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, A. R. García, S. Heinitz, Rugard Dressler, Massimo Barbagallo, A. Oprea, D. Bosnar, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, A. Kimura, A. Casanovas, N. Colonna, M. Kokkoris, J. Marganiec, N. V. Sosnin, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Anton Wallner, Rene Reifarth, J. Andrzejewski, A. Mengoni, I. Duran, L. Cosentino, A. Musumarra, Y. H. Chen, J. Balibrea, P. Vaz, A. Manna, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, P. J. Woods, Vasilis Vlachoudis, N. Patronis, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, A. K. Saxena, A. Stamatopoulos, Arnaud Ferrari, F. Cerutti, J. Billowes, F. J. Ferrer, P. Kavrigin, Ralf Nolte, Hideo Harada, J. M. Quesada, Simone Gilardoni, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, A. Masi, D. G. Jenkins, L. Tassan-Got, R. Cardella, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, M. Krtička, S. Warren, J. Lerendegui-Marco, V. Variale, S. Amaducci, Sergio Cristallo, Claudia Lederer-Woods, T. Martinez, Y. Kadi, E. Dupont, I. F. Gonçalves, Kathrin Göbel, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. V. Sedyshev, A. Ventura, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, A. G. Smith, E. Chiaveri, Ignacio Porras, E. Berthoumieux, P. F. Mastinu, Jan Heyse, A. Kalamara, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, C. Paradela, J. L. Tain, L. Audouin, Niko Kivel, O. Aberle, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, J. Perkowski, Pedro G. Ferreira, F. Gunsing, Cristian Massimi, C. Rubbia, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, A. S. Brown, P. M. Milazzo, F. Bečvář, E. Mendoza, Peter Schillebeeckx, A. Estrade, F. Mingrone, D. Kahl, G. Vannini, and E. Leal-Cidoncha

Subjects
Physics, Stars, COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, European research, 0103 physical sciences, Key (cryptography), Astronomy, Cost action, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract

We thank P. Black (University of Edinburgh) for support in design and construction of the detection system and P. Morrall (Daresbury Laboratory) for production of the B and LiF reference samples. This Letter was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project No. J3503, by JRCIRMM through the EUFRAT Program, by the U.K. Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC), Projects No. ST/L005824/1 and No. ST/M006085/1, the European Research Council ERC-2015-STG Grant No. 677497, and the Cost Action "ChETEC" (Grant No. CA16117).

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2021

20. Measurement of the 72Ge(n,γ) cross section over a wide neutron energy range at the CERN n_TOF facility

Author

Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, F. Mingrone, A. Kalamara, I. F. Gonçalves, Simone Gilardoni, N. Colonna, R. Cardella, S. Heinitz, A. Stamatopoulos, F. Cerutti, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, O. Aberle, E. Berthoumieux, U. Battino, A. Pavlik, G. Tagliente, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, C. Domingo-Pardo, Ignacio Porras, Y. H. Chen, Marco Calviani, S. Warren, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, M. Caamaño, A. Ventura, A. G. Smith, F. Bečvář, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, N. V. Sosnin, A. Oprea, V. Variale, A. S. Brown, E. Mendoza, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, J. Marganiec, Philip Woods, N. Patronis, Rene Reifarth, A. K. Saxena, G. Cortes, L. Audouin, Peter Schillebeeckx, Arnaud Ferrari, M. Bacak, D. Bosnar, P. M. Milazzo, Alexandru Negret, J. Billowes, Cortés-Giraldo, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Pedro G. Ferreira, A. Casanovas, B. Fernández-Domínguez, M. Krtička, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, F. Käppeler, T. Glodariu, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, D. Kahl, J. L. Tain, Hideo Harada, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Mastromarco, T. Martinez, Niko Kivel, M. Kokkoris, Kathrin Göbel, Claudia Lederer-Woods, J. Andrzejewski, I. Duran, Rugard Dressler, Y. Kadi, Massimo Barbagallo, E. Jericha, L. Cosentino, Anton Wallner, Paolo Finocchiaro, E. Chiaveri, C. Rubbia, P. F. Mastinu, Dorothea Schumann, J. Balibrea, J. A. Ryan, Jan Heyse, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. V. Sedyshev, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, J. Perkowski, F. Gunsing, Cristian Massimi, A. Masi, D. G. Jenkins, A. Manna, A. Tattersall, P. Kavrigin, Ralf Nolte, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, C. Weiss, A. Musumarra, A. Mengoni, M. Dietz, A. R. García, A. Kimura, E. Leal-Cidoncha, E. Dupont, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, E. González-Romero, and P. Vaz

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Liquid scintillation counting, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics), Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Beamline, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear astrophysics, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

The Ge72(n,γ) cross section was measured for neutron energies up to 300keV at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF (CERN), Geneva, for the first time covering energies relevant to heavy-element synthesis in stars. The measurement was performed at the high-resolution beamline EAR-1, using an isotopically enriched GeO272 sample. The prompt capture γ rays were detected with four liquid scintillation detectors, optimized for low neutron sensitivity. We determined resonance capture kernels up to a neutron energy of 43keV, and averaged cross sections from 43 to 300keV. Maxwellian-averaged cross section values were calculated from kT=5 to 100keV, with uncertainties between 3.2% and 7.1%. The new results significantly reduce uncertainties of abundances produced in the slow neutron capture process in massive stars.

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2021

21. Imaging neutron capture cross sections: i-TED proof-of-concept and future prospects based on Machine-Learning techniques

Author

Ignacio Porras, D. Macina, F. Ogállar, G. Cortes, G. Tagliente, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Deniz Kurtulgil, Arnaud Ferrari, L. Audouin, Carlos Guerrero, S. Heinitz, R. Garg, Alberto Mengoni, I. Ladarescu, Rugard Dressler, C. Petrone, P. Torres-Sánchez, Hideo Harada, T. Rodríguez-González, J. Lerendegui-Marco, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, L. Persanti, J. Balibrea-Correa, A. Casanovas, J. Billowes, A. Tsinganis, V. Babiano-Suarez, S. Amaducci, S. Bennett, N. V. Sosnin, O. Aberle, Nicola Colonna, Luis Caballero, M. A. Millán-Callado, Simone Gilardoni, I. F. Gonçalves, A. Stamatopoulos, V. Variale, A. Kimura, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, Annamaria Mazzone, L. Cosentino, A. Masi, Petar Žugec, M. Mastromarco, D. Bosnar, D. G. Jenkins, Z. Eleme, E. Dupont, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, D. Cano-Ott, P. Sprung, E. Mendoza, Massimo Barbagallo, Y. Kadi, Anton Wallner, Kathrin Göbel, M. Kokkoris, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, Y. Kopatch, I. Duran, A. Manna, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, Jan Heyse, D. Ramos-Doval, Diego Vescovi, Maurizio Busso, J. Andrzejewski, J. Moreno-Soto, M. Bacak, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Rene Reifarth, F. Mingrone, G. Vannini, D. Calvo, Paolo Finocchiaro, V. Vlachoudis, M. Krtička, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Dorothea Schumann, I. Knapova, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Alexandru Negret, S. Valenta, T. Martinez, E. Pirovano, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. S. Brown, P. Vaz, Sergio Cristallo, Marco Calviani, E. González-Romero, F. Käppeler, A. G. Smith, D. Real, L. A. Damone, M. Caamaño, Alberto Ventura, M. Dietz, V. Alcayne, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, A. Musumarra, Philip Woods, A. Pavlik, E. Chiaveri, J. Perkowski, P. F. Mastinu, P. M. Milazzo, C. Domingo-Pardo, F. Cerutti, J. L. Tain, F. Gunsing, Th. Thomas, Cristian Massimi, S. Urlass, P. J. Davies, R. Vlastou, V. Michalopoulou, J. Ulrich, Peter Schillebeeckx, E. Berthoumieux, C. Rubbia, Q. Ducasse, Javier Praena, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, ITA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, AUS, AUT, BEL, HRV, GRC, IND, POL, CZE, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), 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), 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), Babiano-Su??rez, V., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Balibrea-Correa, J., Caballero, L., Calvo, D., Ladarescu, I., Real, D., Domingo-Pardo, C., Calvi??o, F., Casanovas, A., Tarife??o-Saldivia, A., Alcayne, V., Guerrero, C., Mill??n-Callado, M. A., Rodr??guez-Gonz??lez, T., Barbagallo, M., Aberle, O., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Bennett, S., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A., Busso, M., Caama??o, M., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cort??s, G., Cort??s-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., Damone, L. A., Davies, P. J., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Dressler, R., Ducasse, Q., Dupont, E., Dur??n, I., Eleme, Z., Fern??ndez-Dom??nguez, B., Ferrari, A., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., G??bel, K., Garg, R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Gon??alves, I. F., Gonz??lez-Romero, E., Gunsing, F., Harada, H., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Junghans, A., K??ppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Kimura, A., Knapova, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krti??ka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Lederer-Woods, C., Leeb, H., Lonsdale, S. J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Martinez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E. A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Mingrone, F., Moreno-Soto, J., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Og??llar, F., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Persanti, L., Petrone, C., Pirovano, E., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Ramos-Doval, D., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Rubbia, C., Sabat??-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Sekhar, A., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N. V., Sprung, P., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Tassan-Got, L., Thomas, Th., Torres-S??nchez, P., Tsinganis, A., Ulrich, J., Urlass, S., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Woods, P. J., Wright, T., and ugec, P.

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics: Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], nucl-ex, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic engineering, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, i-TED, neutron capture, n_TOF, machine learning, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton imaging, Detector, Experimental validation, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Neutron capture, Physics: Instrumentation and Detectors, Proof of concept, Benchmark (computing), Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Babiano-Suárez, V., et al., i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in (n, γ) cross-section measurements using time-of-flight technique. This work presents the first experimental validation of the i-TED apparatus for high-resolution time-of-flight experiments and demonstrates for the first time the concept proposed for background rejection. To this aim, the Au(n, γ) and Fe(n, γ) reactions were studied at CERN n_TOF using an i-TED demonstrator based on three position-sensitive detectors. Two CD detectors were also used to benchmark the performance of i-TED. The i-TED prototype built for this study shows a factor of ∼ 3 higher detection sensitivity than state-of-the-art CD detectors in the 10 keV neutron-energy region of astrophysical interest. This paper explores also the perspectives of further enhancement in performance attainable with the final i-TED array consisting of twenty position-sensitive detectors and new analysis methodologies based on Machine-Learning techniques., This work has been carried out in the framework of a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Consolidator Grant project HYMNS, with grant agreement No. 681740). The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under grants PID2019-104714GB-C21, FPA2017-83946-C2-1-P, FIS2015-71688-ERC, CSIC for funding PIE-201750I26, and the funding agencies of the participating institutes. We would like to thank the crew at the Electronics Laboratory of IFIC, in particular Manuel Lopez Redondo and Jorge Nácher Arándiga for their excellent and efficient work.

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2021

22. Measurement of the 72 Ge ( n , γ ) cross section over a wide neutron energy range at the CERN n_TOF facility

Author

M. Dietz, C. Lederer-Woods, A. Tattersall, U. Battino, F. Gunsing, S. Heinitz, M. Krtička, J. Lerendegui-Marco, R. Reifarth, S. Valenta, O. Aberle, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, M. Barbagallo, F. Bečvář, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Caamaño, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, R. Cardella, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, Y. H. Chen, E.

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23. Radiative Neutron Capture Cross-Section Measurement of Ge Isotopes at n_TOF CERN Facility and Its Importance for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

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M. Bacak, A. Musumarra, P. J. Woods, T. Glodariu, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, Roberto Losito, Rene Reifarth, Stefan Schmidt, Cortés-Giraldo, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Tanja Heftrich, A. Riego-Perez, S.L. Meo, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, C. Domingo-Pardo, L. Audouin, G. Vannini, P. C. Rout, L. Cosentino, E. Dupont, J. Billowes, S. Montesano, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A. Stamatopoulos, S. Barros, A. Mengoni, K. Rajeev, M. Caamaño, Petar Žugec, A. Kimura, Rugard Dressler, Francesca Matteucci, D. G. Jenkins, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, A. Tsinganis, P. Kavrigin, Nicola Colonna, M. Kokkoris, Mario Barbagallo, A. Oprea, Vasilis Vlachoudis, I. Knapova, V. Ketlerov, G. Tagliente, G. Cortes, Ralf Nolte, P. Vaz, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Käppeler, E. Griesmayer, Kathrin Göbel, Alberto Ventura, A. Casanovas, A. Goverdovski, O. Aberle, L. A. Damone, D. Bosnar, Jan Heyse, J. I. Porras, A. R. García, U. Battino, M. Brugger, A. Tattersall, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, F. Cerutti, C. Beinrucker, R. Vlastou, I. Duran, E. Leal-Cidoncha, E. Berthoumieux, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, E. González-Romero, R. Cardella, Javier Praena, F. Bečvář, C. Wolf, E. Mendoza, Peter Schillebeeckx, V. Bécares, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, F. Gunsing, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, Cristian Massimi, Pedro G. Ferreira, Mario Weigand, M. Krtička, M. Mirea, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, J. Perkowski, T. Martinez, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Heinitz, V. Khryachkov, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, P. M. Milazzo, Y. H. Chen, I. F. Gonçalves, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, S. Warren, V. Variale, M. Mastromarco, Anton Wallner, J. Balibrea, D. M. Castelluccio, Hideo Harada, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, Claudia Lederer-Woods, P. V. Sedyshev, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, C. Rubbia, J. L. Tain, Niko Kivel, C. Weiss, Y. Kadi, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), n_TOF, 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, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group

Subjects
Astrofísica, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Isotopes of germanium, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Stellar nucleosynthesis, Isotopes, Nucleosynthesis, CERN, Neutron cross section, Neutron, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, n_TOF, Nuclear Experiment, Stellar activity, Physics, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Neutron temperature, Neutron capture cross-section, Neutron capture, Activitat estelar, chemistry, Neutron time-of-flight, MACS, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], radiative neutron capture, Ge isotopes, n_TOF, stellar nucleosynthesis
Abstract

This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (J3503), the Adolf Messer Foundation (Germany), the UK Science and Facilities Council (ST/M006085/1), and the European Research Council ERC-2015-StG No. 677497. We also acknowledge the support of the National Science Centre, Poland, under the grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST2/00183, the MSMT of the Czech Republic and the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2018-01-8570., This manuscript summarizes the results of radiative neutron capture cross-section measurements on two stable germanium isotopes, Ge-70 and Ge-73. Experiments were performed at the n_TOF facility at CERN via the time-of-flight technique, over a wide neutron energy range, for all stable germanium isotopes (70,72,73,74, and 76). Results for Ge-70 [Phys. Rev. C 100, 045804 (2019)] and Ge-73 [Phys. Lett. B 790, 458 (2019)] are already published. In the field of nuclear structure, such measurements allow to study excited levels close to the neutron binding energy and to obtain information on nuclear properties. In stellar nucleosynthesis research, neutron induced reactions on germanium are of importance for nucleosynthesis in the weak component of the slow neutron capture processes., Austrian Science Fund (FWF) J3503, Adolf Messer Foundation (Germany), UK Science and Facilities Council ST/M006085/1, European Research Council (ERC), European Commission 677497, National Science Centre, Poland UMO-2016/22/M/ST2/00183, Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic, Croatian Science Foundation IP-2018-01-8570

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24. Machine Learning aided 3D-position reconstruction in large LaCl$_{3}$ crystals

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J. Balibrea-Correa, Luis Caballero, I. Ladarescu, P. Olleros-Rodríguez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, C. Domingo-Pardo, V. Babiano-Suárez, and D. Calvo

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Photodetector, Scintillator, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Crystal, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Silicon photomultiplier, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation, Physics, Interaction point, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Linearity, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Transverse plane, Artificial intelligence, business, computer
Abstract

We investigate five different models to reconstruct the 3D γ -ray hit coordinates in five large LaCl3(Ce) monolithic crystals optically coupled to pixelated silicon photomultipliers. These scintillators have a base surface of 50 × 50 mm 2 and five different thicknesses, from 10 mm to 30 mm. Four of these models are analytical prescriptions and one is based on a Convolutional Neural Network. Average resolutions close to 1–2 mm fwhm are obtained in the transverse crystal plane for crystal thicknesses between 10 mm and 20 mm using analytical models. For thicker crystals average resolutions of about 3–5 mm fwhm are obtained. Depth of interaction resolutions between 1 mm and 4 mm are achieved depending on the distance of the interaction point to the photosensor surface. We propose a Machine Learning algorithm to correct for linearity distortions and pin-cushion effects. The latter allows one to keep a large field of view of about 70%–80% of the crystal surface, regardless of crystal thickness. This work is aimed at optimizing the performance of the so-called Total Energy Detector with Compton imaging capability (i-TED) for time-of-flight neutron capture cross-section measurements.

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2020

25. Measurement of the α ratio and (n,γ) cross section of U235 from 0.2 to 200 eV at n_TOF

Author

M. B. Gomez-Hornillos, J. Andrzejewski, C. Carrapiço, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, G. Cortes, Tanja Heftrich, A. Riego-Perez, D. Tarrío, V. Bécares, C. Weiss, Roberto Capote, M. Mirea, Srinivasan Ganesan, Kathrin Göbel, A. Mallick, G. Vannini, E. Jericha, Rene Reifarth, F. Mingrone, Rugard Dressler, Jan Heyse, M. Mastromarco, Dorothea Schumann, G. Tagliente, C. Lederer, S. Altstadt, V. Variale, J. A. Ryan, E. Chiaveri, A. Tsinganis, P. F. Mastinu, A. K. Saxena, P. Vaz, Stefan Schmidt, Jeri Kroll, F. Calviño, Massimo Barbagallo, Petar Žugec, L.S. Leong, F. Bečvář, H. Leeb, Anton Wallner, Arnaud Ferrari, Vasilis Vlachoudis, J. Balibrea-Correa, M. S. Robles, E. Mendoza, N. Colonna, Peter Schillebeeckx, J. Billowes, J. Perkowski, R. Sarmento, C. Lampoudis, A. Pavlik, V. Khryachkov, P. M. Milazzo, C. Domingo-Pardo, Vittorio Boccone, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, P. E. Koehler, Willy Mondelaers, P. V. Sedyshev, D. G. Jenkins, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, C. Paradela, Roberto Losito, L. Audouin, Christoph Langer, K. Fraval, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, A. Manousos, A. Goverdovski, Mario Weigand, T. Martinez, D. Bosnar, J. Marganiec, A. Hernández-Prieto, T. Ware, R. Vlastou, E. Berthoumieux, E. Griesmayer, Carlos Guerrero, G. Giubrone, F. Gunsing, Cristian Massimi, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A. Ventura, A. Mengoni, M. P. W. Chin, I. Duran, V. Ketlerov, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Eleftheriadis, Thomas Rauscher, J. L. Tain, D. Karadimos, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, J. Lerendegui-Marco, Niko Kivel, A. R. García, M. Brugger, C. Rubbia, I. F. Gonçalves, Fabio Belloni, Javier Praena, F. Cerutti, M. J. Vermeulen, Y. Kadi, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, E. González, F. Käppeler, and A. J. M. Plompen

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, 01 natural sciences, Calorimeter, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Neutron capture, Neutron flux, Nuclear fission, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, 010306 general physics
Abstract

We measured the neutron capture-to-fission cross-section ratio (α ratio) and the capture cross section of $^{235}$U between 0.2 and 200 eV at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The simultaneous measurement of neutron-induced capture and fission rates was performed by means of the n_TOF BaF$_{2}$ Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC), used for detection of γ rays, in combination with a set of micromegas detectors used as fission tagging detectors. The energy dependence of the capture cross section was obtained with help of the $^{6}$Li(n,t) standard reaction determining the n_TOF neutron fluence; the well-known integral of the $^{235}$U(n,f) cross section between 7.8 and 11 eV was then used for its absolute normalization. The α ratio, obtained with slightly higher statistical fluctuations, was determined directly, without need for any reference cross section. To perform the analysis of this measurement we developed a new methodology to correct the experimentally observed effect that the probabilities of detecting a fission reaction in the TAC and the micromegas detectors are not independent. The results of this work have been used in a new evaluation of $^{235}$U performed within the scope of the Collaborative International Evaluated Library Organisation (CIELO) Project, and are consistent with the ENDF/B-VIII.0 and JEFF-3.3 capture cross sections below 4 eV and above 100 eV. However, the measured capture cross section is on average 10% larger between 4 and 100 eV.

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2020

26. Neutron Capture on the s -Process Branching Point Tm171 via Time-of-Flight and Activation

Author

Claudia Lederer-Woods, A Kriesel, L. Piersanti, P. V. Sedyshev, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, J. Heyse, G. Vannini, B. Fernández-Domínguez, D. M. Castelluccio, F. Käppeler, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, D. Bosnar, M A Millán-Callado, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, O. Aberle, M. Caamaño, E. Leal-Cidoncha, I. Duran, I. F. Gonçalves, D Berkovits, F. Cerutti, A. Gawlik, A. Goverdovski, G. Tagliente, Thomas Rauscher, V. Bécares, T Rodríguez-González, A Damone, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, G. Cortes, Leonid Weissman, S. Montesano, Michael Paul, K. Rajeev, A. Stamatopoulos, M. Kokkoris, S. Warren, R. Vlastou, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, E. Berthoumieux, Francesca Matteucci, T Palchan-Hazan, A. Casanovas, S. Halfon, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, Ulli Köster, E. González-Romero, P. Kavrigin, D Kijel, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, A. Musumarra, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, M. Tessler, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, A. Manna, P. Vaz, Ralf Nolte, E. Griesmayer, Ignacio Porras, P. J. Woods, L. Cosentino, A. Oprea, Tanja Heftrich, R. Cardella, C. Weiss, T Hirsh, A. R. García, mtext, M. Brugger, A Shor, Alberto Ventura, mrow, E. Dupont, P. C. Rout, Y. Kadi, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, V. Khryachkov, P. M. Milazzo, Arnaud Ferrari, C. Beinrucker, A. Pavlik, V. Furman, A. Mengoni, S. Valenta, C. Domingo-Pardo, T. J. Wright, B Kaizer, J. Billowes, Marco Calviani, F. Bečvář, V. Ketlerov, C. Wolf, A. G. Smith, Petar Žugec, E. Mendoza, M. Dietz, Peter Schillebeeckx, H Dafna, S. Heinitz, L. Audouin, Y Eisen, M. Bacak, C. Rubbia, Y Buzaglo, T. Glodariu, Roberto Losito, Rugard Dressler, mtext> Tof, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Tsinganis, Nicola Colonna, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Kathrin Göbel, A. Kimura, D. G. Jenkins, Mario Barbagallo, J. L. Tain, J. Marganiec, Niko Kivel, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, M. Krtička, T. Martinez, Y. H. Chen, F. Gunsing, Cristian Massimi, M. Mirea, Rene Reifarth, Stefan Schmidt, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, J. M. Quesada, J. Perkowski, L. Tassan-Got, Sergio Cristallo, Pedro G. Ferreira, Mario Weigand, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A Barak, S. Barros, M. Mastromarco, Anton Wallner, J. Balibrea, and Hideo Harada

Subjects
Physics, General Physics and Astronomy, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Neutron capture, Stellar nucleosynthesis, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Neutron, Nuclide, 010306 general physics, s-process
Abstract

The neutron capture cross sections of several unstable nuclides acting as branching points in the s process are crucial for stellar nucleosynthesis studies. The unstable $^{171}$Tm(t$_{1/2}$=1.92 yr) is part of the branching around mass A∼170 but its neutron capture cross section as a function of the neutron energy is not known to date. In this work, following the production for the first time of more than 5 mg of $^{171}$Tm at the high-flux reactor Institut Laue-Langevin in France, a sample was produced at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Two complementary experiments were carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) at CERN in Switzerland and at the SARAF liquid lithium target facility at Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Israel by time of flight and activation, respectively. The result of the time-of-flight experiment consists of the first ever set of resonance parameters and the corresponding average resonance parameters, allowing us to make an estimation of the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) by extrapolation. The activation measurement provides a direct and more precise measurement of the MACS at 30 keV: 384(40) mb, with which the estimation from the n_TOF data agree at the limit of 1 standard deviation. This value is 2.6 times lower than the JEFF-3.3 and ENDF/B-VIII evaluations, 25% lower than that of the Bao et al. compilation, and 1.6 times larger than the value recommended in the KADoNiS (v1) database, based on the only previous experiment. Our result affects the nucleosynthesis at the A∼170 branching, namely, the $^{171}$Yb abundance increases in the material lost by asymptotic giant branch stars, providing a better match to the available pre-solar SiC grain measurements compared to the calculations based on the current JEFF-3.3 model-based evaluation.

Published
2020

27. Study of the neutron-induced fission cross section of Np-237 at CERN's n_TOF facility over a wide energy range

Author

E. Leal-Cidoncha, Simone Gilardoni, S. Valenta, E. Dupont, A. Gawlik, Marco Calviani, Thomas Rauscher, R. Cardella, A. Pavlik, Rene Reifarth, A. Musumarra, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, G. Vannini, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. M. Quesada, A. Oprea, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, E. González-Romero, M. Caamaño, L. Tassan-Got, Y. H. Chen, J. Lerendegui-Marco, A. Kimura, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, Z. Eleme, Y. Kadi, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, L. Cosentino, A. R. García, G. Cortes, I. F. Gonçalves, J. Andrzejewski, I. Knapova, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, P. J. Woods, J. Marganiec, P. Vaz, Alberto Ventura, E. Chiaveri, Mario Barbagallo, P. F. Mastinu, A. Mengoni, Pedro G. Ferreira, F. Cerutti, C. Weiss, A. Kalamara, A. S. Brown, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, A. Manna, Hideo Harada, M. Mastromarco, D. Bosnar, Rugard Dressler, Arnaud Ferrari, D. Cano-Ott, Anton Wallner, M. Krtička, B. Femandez-Domínguez, M. Diakaki, J. Balibrea, F. Bečvář, Diego Vescovi, F. Gunsing, T. Martinez, A. Masi, P. M. Milazzo, Alexandru Negret, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, E. Mendoza, F. Mingrone, A. Tsinganis, C. Lederer, D. G. Jenkins, J. Billowes, F. Käppeler, G. Tagliente, Cristian Massimi, Ignacio Porras, A. Stamatopoulos, Peter Schillebeeckx, Nicola Colonna, O. Aberle, E. Jericha, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Paolo Finocchiaro, A. Casanovas, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, S. Warren, C. Rubbia, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, V. Variale, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, M. Kokkoris, J. Perkowski, M. Bacak, L. Audouin, S. Heinitz, P. Kavrigin, Ralf Nolte, E. Griesmayer, T. Glodariu, L. A. Damone, Kathrin Göbel, Jan Heyse, J. L. Tain, Niko Kivel, Durán, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. V. Sedyshev, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, CEA Cadarache, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), 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, and 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)

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear fuel cycle, Large Hadron Collider, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, QC1-999, Nuclear Theory, MicroMegas detector, n_TOF, 237Np, fission, neutron time of flight, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutron temperature, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Cross section (physics), 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Neutron, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

This research is implemented through IKY scholarships programme and co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the action entitled Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers, in the framework of the Operational Programme Human Resources Development Program, Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2014-2020., Neutron-induced fission cross sections of isotopes involved in the nuclear fuel cycle are vital for the design and safe operation of advanced nuclear systems. Such experimental data can also provide additional constraints for the adjustment of nuclear model parameters used in the evaluation process, resulting in the further development of fission models. In the present work, the Np-237(n,f) cross section was studied at the EAR2 vertical beam-line at CERN's n_TOF facility, over a wide range of neutron energies, from meV to MeV, using the time-of-flight technique and a set-up based on Micromegas detectors, in an attempt to provide accurate experimental data. Preliminary results in the 200 keV - 14 MeV neutron energy range as well as the experimental procedure, including a description of the facility and the data handling and analysis, will be presented., IKY scholarships programme, European Social Fund (ESF) European Commission, Greek national funds through the action entitled Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers

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2020

28. Investigation of the Pu240(n,f) reaction at the n_TOF/EAR2 facility in the 9 meV–6 MeV range

Author

R. J. W. Frost, A. Goverdovski, A. Mengoni, M. Krtička, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, I. Duran, G. Tagliente, Petar Žugec, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, T. Martinez, L. Cosentino, K. Deo, G. Vannini, V. Ketlerov, D. Bosnar, E. Dupont, A. Musumarra, Tatsuya Katabuchi, A. Ventura, M. Mirea, M. Mastromarco, S. Warren, A. Kimura, S. Heinitz, V. Variale, S. Barros, A. Tsinganis, Massimo Barbagallo, F. R. Palomo-Pinto, M. Caamaño, Rene Reifarth, E. Chiaveri, D. G. Jenkins, Anton Wallner, Stefan Schmidt, C. Paradela, Rugard Dressler, F. Calviño, Tanja Heftrich, P. F. Mastinu, L. Audouin, M. Licata, H. Leeb, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, J. Balibrea, S. V. Suryanarayana, F. Mingrone, C. Lederer, I. Knapova, A. Riego-Perez, J. Perkowski, R. Vlastou, J. Marganiec, S. Valenta, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, A. J. M. Plompen, F. Gunsing, P. Vaz, N. Colonna, Marco Calviani, E. Berthoumieux, P. Kavrigin, Ralf Nolte, A. G. Smith, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, F. Cerutti, Cristian Massimi, A. Pavlik, E. Leal-Cidoncha, O. Aberle, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, C. Domingo-Pardo, Hideo Harada, A. Hernández-Prieto, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Kathrin Göbel, Vasilis Vlachoudis, V. Bécares, M. S. Robles, Thomas Rauscher, Jan Heyse, M. Kokkoris, C. Rubbia, Pedro G. Ferreira, Mario Weigand, C. Weiss, D. Cano-Ott, Y. Kadi, M. Diakaki, F. Bečvář, M. Bacak, E. Mendoza, Peter Schillebeeckx, J. Lerendegui-Marco, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, J. L. Tain, J. I. Porras, T. Glodariu, Roberto Losito, I. F. Gonçalves, Niko Kivel, B. Fernández-Domínguez, E. González-Romero, F. Käppeler, Fabio Belloni, A. R. García, Francesca Matteucci, M. Brugger, C. Beinrucker, V. Khryachkov, P. M. Milazzo, Ioana Gheorghe, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, S. Montesano, J. Billowes, E. Jericha, A. Stamatopoulos, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, P. V. Sedyshev, J. Andrzejewski, and G. Cortes

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear transmutation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, Monte Carlo method, Radioactive waste, MicroMegas detector, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Spent nuclear fuel, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Background: Nuclear waste management is considered amongst the major challenges in the field of nuclear energy. A possible means of addressing this issue is waste transmutation in advanced nuclear systems, whose operation requires a fast neutron spectrum. In this regard, the accurate knowledge of neutron-induced reaction cross sections of several (minor) actinide isotopes is essential for design optimization and improvement of safety margins of such systems. One such case is Pu240, due to its accumulation in spent nuclear fuel of thermal reactors and its usage in fast reactor fuel. The measurement of the Pu240(n,f) cross section was previously attempted at the CERN n_TOF facility EAR1 measuring station using the time-of-flight technique. Due to the low amount of available material and the given flux at EAR1, the measurement had to last several months to achieve a sufficient statistical accuracy. This long duration led to detector deterioration due to the prolonged exposure to the high α activity of the fission foils, therefore the measurement could not be successfully completed. Purpose: It is aimed to determine whether it is feasible to study neutron-induced fission at n_TOF/EAR2 and provide data on the Pu240(n,f) reaction in energy regions requested for applications. Methods: The study of the Pu240(n,f) reaction was made at a new experimental area (EAR2) with a shorter flight path which delivered on average 30 times higher flux at fast neutron energies. This enabled the measurement to be performed much faster, thus limiting the exposure of the detectors to the intrinsic activity of the fission foils. The experimental setup was based on microbulk Micromegas detectors and the time-of-flight data were analyzed with an optimized pulse-shape analysis algorithm. Special attention was dedicated to the estimation of the non-negligible counting loss corrections with the development of a new methodology, and other corrections were estimated via Monte Carlo simulations of the experimental setup. Results: This new measurement of the Pu240(n,f) cross section yielded data from 9meV up to 6MeV incident neutron energy and fission resonance kernels were extracted up to 10keV. Conclusions: Neutron-induced fission of high activity samples can be successfully studied at the n_TOF/EAR2 facility at CERN covering a wide range of neutron energies, from thermal to a few MeV.

Published
2020

29. Measurement of the 154Gd(n,γ) cross section and its astrophysical implications

Author

Z. Talip, A. S. Brown, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Alexandru Negret, P. Vaz, F. Käppeler, A. Masi, R. Wynants, Alberto Ventura, D. G. Jenkins, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, E. Mendoza, A. Kimura, G. Vannini, O. Aberle, V. Babiano-Suarez, Stefan Kopecky, A. Manna, A. Pavlik, A. Stamatopoulos, M. Diakaki, M. Mastromarco, C. Domingo-Pardo, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, S. Heinitz, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Z. Eleme, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Kokkoris, Anton Wallner, D. Macina, B. Fernández-Domíngez, E. Jericha, S. Urlass, Mario Barbagallo, Alfredo Ferrari, Paolo Finocchiaro, Maurizio Busso, G. Alaerts, A. Oprea, J. Heyse, D. M. Castelluccio, R. Mucciola, F. Calviño, D. Schumann, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, A. Musumarra, G. Cortes, E. Chiaveri, D. Cano-Ott, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, P. M. Milazzo, Ignacio Porras, Rene Reifarth, Giulia Clai, S. Valenta, A. Gawlik, N. Patronis, P. Schillebeeckx, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, Carlos Guerrero, J. Perkowski, P. Torres-Sánchez, F. Bečvář, A. Saxena, Marco Calviani, Alberto Mengoni, I. Ladarescu, A. G. Smith, R. Garg, J. Billowes, J. M. Quesada, E. González-Romero, L. Tassan-Got, F. Gunsing, Francesca Matteucci, I. Duran, M. Dietz, Diego Vescovi, Sergio Cristallo, F. Mingrone, J. Andrzejewski, Cristian Massimi, Philip Woods, V. Bécares, L. Caballero, Claudia Lederer-Woods, R. Dressler, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, Ralf Nolte, M. Caamaño, Deniz Kurtulgil, L. A. Damone, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, K. Göbel, F. Cerutti, V. Alcayne, T. Wright, V. Furman, Y. Kopatch, N. V. Sosnin, Simone Gilardoni, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, J. Ulrich, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, J. L. Tain, Niko Kivel, G. Bellia, F. Ogállar, Y. H. Chen, C. Rubbia, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, A. Casanovas, L. Cosentino, P. F. Mastinu, M. Krtička, T. Martinez, A. Tsinganis, Luciano Piersanti, Nicola Colonna, E. Dupont, M. Bacak, T. Glodariu, L. Audouin, V. Michalopoulou, ITA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, AUT, BEL, HRV, JPN, GRC, IND, POL, CZE, CHE, 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), 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. 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, 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), Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Mazzone, A., Cristallo, S., Aberle, O., Alaerts, G., Alcayne, V., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Babiano-Suarez, V., Bacak, M., Barbagallo, M., Becares, V., Becvar, F., Bellia, G., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Bosnar, D., Brown, A. S., Busso, M., Caamano, M., Caballero, L., Calviani, M., Calvino, F., Cano-Ott, D., Casanovas, A., Castelluccio, D. M., Cerutti, F., Chen, Y. H., Chiaveri, E., Clai, G., Colonna, N., Cortes, G. P., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Damone, L. A., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Dupont, E., Duran, I., Eleme, Z., Fernandez-Domingez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferro-Goncalves, I., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Garg, R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Glodariu, T., Gobel, K., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Kadi, Y., Kappeler, F., Kimura, A., Kivel, N., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Kopecky, S., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Ladarescu, I., Lederer-Woods, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Lo Meo, S., Lonsdale, S. -J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Martinez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P. F., Mastromarco, M., Matteucci, F., Maugeri, E., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Mingrone, F., Mucciola, R., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Nolte, R., Ogallar, F., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Piersanti, L., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Radeck, D., Ramos Doval, D., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Rubbia, C., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Talip, Z., Tarifeno-Saldivia, A. E., Tassan-Got, L., Torres-Sanchez, P., Tsinganis, A., Ulrich, J., Urlass, S., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Woods, P. J., Wynants, R., Wright, T. J., Zugec, P., Mazzone A., Cristallo S., Aberle O., Alaerts G., Alcayne V., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Audouin L., Babiano-Suarez V., Bacak M., Barbagallo M., Becares V., Becvar F., Bellia G., Berthoumieux E., Billowes J., Bosnar D., Brown A.S., Busso M., Caamano M., Caballero L., Calviani M., Calvino F., Cano-Ott D., Casanovas A., Castelluccio D.M., Cerutti F., Chen Y.H., Chiaveri E., Clai G., Colonna N., Cortes G.P., Cortes-Giraldo M.A., Cosentino L., Damone L.A., Diakaki M., Dietz M., Domingo-Pardo C., Dressler R., Dupont E., Duran I., Eleme Z., Fernandez-Domingez B., Ferrari A., Ferro-Goncalves I., Finocchiaro P., Furman V., Garg R., Gawlik A., Gilardoni S., Glodariu T., Gobel K., Gonzalez-Romero E., Guerrero C., Gunsing F., Heinitz S., Heyse J., Jenkins D.G., Jericha E., Kadi Y., Kappeler F., Kimura A., Kivel N., Kokkoris M., Kopatch Y., Kopecky S., Krticka M., Kurtulgil D., Ladarescu I., Lederer-Woods C., Lerendegui-Marco J., Lo Meo S., Lonsdale S.-J., Macina D., Manna A., Martinez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinu P.F., Mastromarco M., Matteucci F., Maugeri E., Mendoza E., Mengoni A., Michalopoulou V., Milazzo P.M., Mingrone F., Mucciola R., Musumarra A., Negret A., Nolte R., Ogallar F., Oprea A., Patronis N., Pavlik A., Perkowski J., Piersanti L., Porras I., Praena J., Quesada J.M., Radeck D., Ramos Doval D., Reifarth R., Rochman D., Rubbia C., Sabate-Gilarte M., Saxena A., Schillebeeckx P., Schumann D., Smith A.G., Sosnin N., Stamatopoulos A., Tagliente G., Tain J.L., Talip Z., Tarifeno-Saldivia A.E., Tassan-Got L., Torres-Sanchez P., Tsinganis A., Ulrich J., Urlass S., Valenta S., Vannini G., Variale V., Vaz P., Ventura A., Vescovi D., Vlachoudis V., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Woods P.J., Wynants R., Wright T.J., and Zugec P.

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Gd, Neutron time of flight, Física::Física de partícules [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Nuclear physics, Neutrons--Captura, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], nucl-ex, Neutron time of flightn, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutrons--Capture, Cross section (physics), Nucleosynthesis, ComputingMethodologies_SYMBOLICANDALGEBRAICMANIPULATION, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, ddc:530, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Spallation, Neutron, n_TOF, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, 154Gd, Physics, Scintillation, 154 Gd, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, s process, Atmospheric temperature range, lcsh:QC1-999, NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics, PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika, Neutron time-of-flight, Física nuclear, s-process, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

The isotope used in this research was supplied by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science by the Isotope Program in the Office of Nuclear Physics., The neutron capture cross section of 154Gd was measured from 1 eV to 300 keV in the experimental area located 185 m from the CERN n_TOF neutron spallation source, using a metallic sample of gadolinium, enriched to 67% in 154Gd. The capture measurement, performed with four C6D6 scintillation detectors, has been complemented by a transmission measurement performed at the GELINA time-of-flight facility (JRC-Geel), thus minimising the uncertainty related to sample composition. An accurate Maxwellian averaged capture cross section (MACS) was deduced over the temperature range of interest for s process nucleosynthesis modelling. We report a value of 880(50) mb for the MACS at kT = 30 keV, significantly lower compared to values available in literature. The new adopted 154Gd(n,γ ) cross section reduces the discrepancy between observed and calculated solar s-only isotopic abundances predicted by s-process nucleosynthesis models., EUFRAT open access programme of the Joint Research Centre at Geel

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2020

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

Author

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.

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2020

31. Review and new concepts for neutron-capture measurements of astrophysical interest

Author

M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Kimura, A. Segarr, J. Lerendegui-Marco, M. Krtička, T. Martinez, M. Busso, M. Mastromarco, L. Caballero, J. L. Tain, G. Tagliente, Mario Barbagallo, Z. Eleme, D. Schumann, I. Knapova, S. Bennett, B. Fernandez-Domingez, G. Vannini, P. Vaz, P. Sprung, A. Masi, F. Ogallar, A. Saxena, F. Gunsing, V. Michalopoulou, J. Heyse, A. Stamatopoulos, N. Patronis, A. Casanovas, D. G. Jenkins, Alberto Ventura, E. Jericha, E. Berthoumieux, Javier Praena, B. Thomas, A. Negret, Cristian Massimi, Alberto Mengoni, I. Ferro-Goncalves, P. J. Davies, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, C. Rubbia, P. M. Milazzo, Paolo Finocchiaro, G. Cortes, D. R. Doval, E. Mendoza, S. Urlass, Alfredo Ferrari, J. Balibrea-Correa, J. Moreno-Soto, D. Rochman, L. Cosentino, N. V. Sosnin, A. Mazzone, M. Kokkoris, E. Maugeri, P. F. Mastinua, A. Oprea, Rene Reifarth, C. Petrone, Claudia Lederer-Woods, V. Variale, Arnd R. Junghans, P. Torres-Sanchez, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, U. Jiri, F. Mingrone, S. Amaducci, M. Bacak, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Deniz Kurtulgil, J. Andrzejewski, M. Caamaño, E. Chiaveri, V. Babiano-Suarez, D. Cano-Ott, D. Macina, F. Cerutti, V. Vlachoudis, I. Ladarescu, L. Audouin, Carlos Guerrero, L. Piersanti, A. Pavlik, A. S. Brown, R. Garg, C. Domingo-Pardo, E. González-Romero, I. Porras, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, M. T. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, O. Aberle, V. Furman, Y. Kopatch, A. Tsinganis, Simone Gilardoni, F. Calviño, E. Pirovano, Nicola Colonna, J. Perkowski, E. Dupont, M. A. Millán-Callado, K. Göbel, S. Cristallo, T. Wright, Diego Vescovi, F. Käppeler, A. Musumarra, R. Vlastou, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, A. Manna, Q. Ducasse, S. Valenta, P. Zugec, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, Philip Woods, Anton Wallner, P. Schillebeeckx, A. Gawlik, L. A. Damone, I. Duran, R. Dressler, V. Alcayne, 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, 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), Domingo-Pardo, C., Babiano-Suarez, V., Balibrea-Correa, J., Caballero, L., Ladarescu, I., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Tain, J. L., Calvino, F., Casanovas, A., Segarr, A., Tarifeno-Saldivia, A. E., Guerrero, C., Millan-Callado, M. A., Quesada, J. M., Rodriguez-Gonzalez, M. T., Aberle, O., Alcayne, V., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Barbagallo, M., Bennett, S., Berthoumieux, E., Bosnar, D., Brown, A. S., Busso, M., Caamano, M., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortes, G. P., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., Damone, L. A., Davies, P. J., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Dressler, R., Ducasse, Q., Dupont, E., Duran, I., Eleme, Z., Fernandez-Domingez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferro-Goncalves, I., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Garg, R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Gobel, K., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Gunsing, F., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Jiri, U., Junghans, A., Kadi, Y., Kappeler, F., Kimura, A., Knapova, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Lederer-Woods, C., Lonsdale, S. -J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Martinez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinua, P. F., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Mingrone, F., Moreno-Soto, J., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Ogallar, F., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Petrone, C., Piersanti, L., Pirovano, E., Porras, I., Praena, J., Doval, D. R., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Rubbia, C., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Sekhar, A., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N., Sprung, P., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tassan-Got, L., Thomas, B., Torres-Sanchez, P., Tsinganis, A., Urlass, S., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Woods, P. J., Wright, T. J., Zugec, P., Domingo-Pardo C., Babiano-Suarez V., Balibrea-Correa J., Caballero L., Ladarescu I., Lerendegui-Marco J., Tain J.L., Calvino F., Casanovas A., Segarr A., Tarifeno-Saldivia A.E., Guerrero C., Millan-Callado M.A., Quesada J.M., Rodriguez-Gonzalez M.T., Aberle O., Alcayne V., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Audouin L., Bacak M., Barbagallo M., Bennett S., Berthoumieux E., Bosnar D., Brown A.S., Busso M., Caamano M., Calviani M., Cano-Ott D., Cerutti F., Chiaveri E., Colonna N., Cortes G.P., Cortes-Giraldo M.A., Cosentino L., Cristallo S., Damone L.A., Davies P.J., Diakaki M., Dietz M., Dressler R., Ducasse Q., Dupont E., Duran I., Eleme Z., Fernandez-Domingez B., Ferrari A., Ferro-Goncalves I., Finocchiaro P., Furman V., Garg R., Gawlik A., Gilardoni S., Gobel K., Gonzalez-Romero E., Gunsing F., Heyse J., Jenkins D.G., Jericha E., Jiri U., Junghans A., Kadi Y., Kappeler F., Kimura A., Knapova I., Kokkoris M., Kopatch Y., Krticka M., Kurtulgil D., Lederer-Woods C., Lonsdale S.-J., Macina D., Manna A., Martinez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinua P.F., Mastromarco M., Maugeri E., Mazzone A., Mendoza E., Mengoni A., Michalopoulou V., Milazzo P.M., Mingrone F., Moreno-Soto J., Musumarra A., Negret A., Ogallar F., Oprea A., Patronis N., Pavlik A., Perkowski J., Petrone C., Piersanti L., Pirovano E., Porras I., Praena J., Doval D.R., Reifarth R., Rochman D., Rubbia C., Sabate-Gilarte M., Saxena A., Schillebeeckx P., Schumann D., Sekhar A., Smith A.G., Sosnin N., Sprung P., Stamatopoulos A., Tagliente G., Tassan-Got L., Thomas B., Torres-Sanchez P., Tsinganis A., Urlass S., Valenta S., Vannini G., Variale V., Vaz P., Ventura A., Vescovi D., Vlachoudis V., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Woods P.J., Wright T.J., and Zugec P.

Subjects
History, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Measure (physics), FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Education, Nuclear physics, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, 14. Life underwater, Instrumentation (computer programming), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stellar evolution, Physics, neutron capture, detector, TOF, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Computer Science Applications, Progressive refinement, Neutron capture, astrophysics, neutron capture, neutron time of flight, n_TOF
Abstract

The idea of slow-neutron capture nucleosynthesis formulated in 1957 triggered a tremendous experimental effort in different laboratories worldwide to measure the relevant nuclear physics input quantities, namely (n, γ) cross sections over the stellar temperature range (from few eV up to several hundred keV) for most of the isotopes involved from Fe up to Bi. A brief historical review focused on total energy detectors will be presented to illustrate how advances in instrumentation have led to the assessment of new aspects of s-process nucleosynthesis and to the progressive refinement of stellar models. A summary will be presented on current efforts to develop new detection concepts, such as the Total-Energy Detector with γ-ray imaging capability (i-TED). The latter is based on the simultaneous combination of Compton imaging with neutron time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, in order to achieve a superior level of sensitivity and selectivity in the measurement of stellar neutron capture rates., European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Consolidator Grant project HYMNS) 681740, Instituto de Salud Carlos III Spanish Government FPA2014-52823-C2-1-P FPA2017-83946-C2-1-P, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) PIE-201750I26, Program Severo Ochoa SEV-2014-0398

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2020

32. Measurement of the Pu-242(n,gamma) cross section from thermal to 500 keV at the Budapest research reactor and CERN n_TOF-EAR1 facilities

Author

O. Aberle, G. Cortes, C. Rubbia, Rugard Dressler, V. Khryachkov, P. M. Milazzo, Pedro G. Ferreira, Mario Weigand, A. Oprea, Tamás Belgya, A. Goverdovski, L. Cosentino, E. Jericha, A. Tsinganis, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, L. Audouin, F. Mingrone, K. Rajeev, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. L. Tain, A. Kimura, D. M. Castelluccio, J. Andrzejewski, Francesca Matteucci, I. Knapova, A. Musumarra, F. Cerutti, Nicola Colonna, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, T. Martinez, Niko Kivel, I. F. Gonçalves, I. Duran, Mario Barbagallo, F. Gunsing, V. Vlachoudis, G. Vannini, A. R. García, Cristian Massimi, P. Vaz, P. J. Woods, P. C. Rout, M. Caamaño, Tanja Heftrich, C. Weiss, G. Tagliente, C. Lederer, Alberto Ventura, J. Marganiec, A. Riego-Perez, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, M. Mirea, V. Bécares, M. Brugger, D. Macina, S. Heinitz, Carlos Guerrero, R. Vlastou, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, Y. Kadi, A. Pavlik, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Casanovas, F. Käppeler, E. Chiaveri, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, C. Domingo-Pardo, E. Berthoumieux, Diego Vescovi, J. Perkowski, S. Valenta, Arnaud Ferrari, D. G. Jenkins, P. F. Mastinu, F. Bečvář, M. Bacak, Marco Calviani, C. Beinrucker, C. Wolf, P. Kavrigin, Kathrin Göbel, E. Mendoza, Alberto Mengoni, A. G. Smith, Ralf Nolte, J. Billowes, Jan Heyse, E. Leal-Cidoncha, Peter Schillebeeckx, E. Griesmayer, Tatsuya Katabuchi, D. Bosnar, L. A. Damone, M. Krtiička, R. Cardella, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, S. Barros, M. Kokkoris, A. Gawlik, J. I. Porras, Rene Reifarth, T. Glodariu, Thomas Rauscher, S. Warren, Roberto Losito, Stefan Schmidt, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Y. H. Chen, V. Variale, P. V. Sedyshev, Arnd R. Junghans, Petar Žugec, E. González-Romero, V. Ketlerov, V. Furman, Klaus Eberhardt, T. J. Wright, S. Montesano, A. Stamatopoulos, M. Mastromarco, Anton Wallner, J. Balibrea, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Hideo Harada, E. Dupont, Boglárka Maróti, 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), 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, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., and 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)

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, QC1-999, n_TOF, 242Pu, neutron capture, neutron time of flight, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Resonance (particle physics), Nuclear physics, Stack (abstract data type), 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Research reactor, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Neutron activation analysis, 010306 general physics
Abstract

The design and operation of innovative nuclear systems requires a better knowledge of the capture and fission cross sections of the Pu isotopes. For the case of capture on 242Pu, a reduction of the uncertainty in the fast region down to 8-12% is required. Moreover, aiming at improving the evaluation of the fast energy range in terms of average parameters, the OECD NEA High Priority Request List (HPRL) requests high-resolution capture measurements with improved accuracy below 2 keV. The current uncertainties also affect the thermal point, where previous experiments deviate from each other by 20%. A fruitful collaboration betwen JGU Mainz and HZ Dresden-Rossendorf within the EC CHANDA project resulted in a 242Pu sample consisting of a stack of seven fission-like targets making a total of 95(4) mg of 242Pu electrodeposited on thin (11.5 μm) aluminum backings. This contribution presents the results of a set of measurements of the 242Pu(n, γ) cross section from thermal to 500 keV combining different neutron beams and techniques. The thermal point was determined at the Budapest Research Reactor by means of Neutron Activation Analysis and Prompt Gamma Analysis, and the resolved (1 eV - 4 keV) and unresolved (1 - 500 keV) resonance regions were measured using a set of four Total Energy detectors at the CERN n_TOF-EAR1. European Commission 334315, 605203 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FPA2013-45083-P, FPA2014-53290-C2-2-P, FPA2016-77689-C2-1-R German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) 03NUK13A

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2020

33. First results of the 241Am(n,f) cross section measurement at the Experimental Area 2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author

M. Bacak, S. Heinitz, Y. Kadi, C. Petrone, O. Aberle, M. A. Millán-Callado, J. L. Tain, G. Cortes, M. Mastromarco, Z. Eleme, G. Vannini, M. Caamaño, P. J. Davies, A. Masi, S. Valenta, B. Fernández-Domíngez, Massimo Barbagallo, Anton Wallner, A. S. Brown, D. G. Jenkins, Marco Calviani, Rene Reifarth, B. Thomas, A. G. Smith, Alexandru Negret, J. Andrzejewski, A. Oprea, L. Audouin, F. Cerutti, F. Käppeler, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Rugard Dressler, M. Dietz, P. M. Milazzo, D. Bosnar, M. Kokkoris, V. Babiano-Suarez, Sergio Cristallo, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, V. Alcayne, C. Rubbia, A. Tsinganis, Luciano Piersanti, A. Kimura, F. Ogállar, P. J. Woods, T. Martinez, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, A. Manna, Nicola Colonna, E. Dupont, R. Vlastou, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Y. Kopatch, Dorothea Schumann, J. Moreno-Soto, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, Simone Gilardoni, I. Duran, G. Tagliente, Q. Ducasse, Arnaud Ferrari, L. Caballero, E. Berthoumieux, I. Ladarescu, Kathrin Göbel, U. Jiri, D. Ramos Doval, Jan Heyse, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, A. Casanovas, D. Cano-Ott, S. Urlass, S. Bennett, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, A. Stamatopoulos, A. Gawlik, Javier Praena, L. Cosentino, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, N. V. Sosnin, I. Knapova, P. Vaz, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, L. A. Damone, P. Sprung, Alberto Ventura, F. Calviño, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, E. Pirovano, V. Michalopoulou, J. Perkowski, E. Mendoza, E. González-Romero, F. Gunsing, Peter Schillebeeckx, Cristian Massimi, A. Mengoni, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, R. Garg, M. Krticˇka, Claudia Lederer-Woods, P. Torres-Sánchez, Deniz Kurtulgil, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Maurizio Busso, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Ignacio Porras, Diego Vescovi, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, A. Musumarra, F. Mingrone, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, CEA Cadarache, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), 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, 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Large Hadron Collider, Materials science, Nuclear transmutation, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, n_TOF, 241Am, fission, neutron time of flight, 4. Education, Nuclear engineering, Physics, QC1-999, Radioactive waste, MicroMegas detector, Actinide, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Incineration, 13. Climate action, Neutron flux, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

This research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) through the Operational Programme Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning in the context of the project "Strengthening Human Resources Research Potential via Doctorate Research" (MIS-5000432), implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Also, the authors would like to acknowledge the support of the European Commission under the CHANDA project (7th Framework Programme)., Feasibility, design and sensitivity studies on innovative nuclear reactors that could address the issue of nuclear waste transmutation using fuels enriched in minor actinides, require high accuracy cross section data for a variety of neutron-induced reactions from thermal energies to several tens of MeV. The isotope Am-241 (T-1/2= 433 years) is present in high-level nuclear waste (HLW), representing about 1.8 % of the actinide mass in spent PWR UOx fuel. Its importance increases with cooling time due to additional production from the beta-decay of Pu-241 with a half-life of 14.3 years. The production rate of 241Am in conventional reactors, including its further accumulation through the decay of Pu-241 and its destruction through transmutation/incineration are very important parameters for the design of any recycling solution. In the present work, the Am-241(n,f) reaction cross-section was measured using Micromegas detectors at the Experimental Area 2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN. For the measurement, the U-235(n,f) and U-238(n,f) reference reactions were used for the determination of the neutron flux. In the present work an overview of the experimental setup and the adopted data analysis techniques is given along with preliminary results., European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) through the Operational Programme Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning MIS-5000432, European Commission under the CHANDA project (7th Framework Programme)

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2020

34. Status and perspectives of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN

Author

D. Bosnar, Rugard Dressler, A. Tsinganis, N. V. Sosnin, S. Bennett, A. Stamatopoulos, Luciano Piersanti, Nicola Colonna, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, Z. Eleme, P. Sprung, F. Ogállar, A. Kimura, G. Cortes, A. Masi, V. Variale, O. Aberle, G. Tagliente, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, A. Pavlik, D. Ramos Doval, D. G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, Y. Kopatch, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. A. Millán-Callado, Maurizio Busso, L. Audouin, M. Krtička, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Kokkoris, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, E. Pirovano, T. Martinez, Rene Reifarth, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, A. Casanovas, Alexandru Negret, F. Cerutti, M. Bacak, A. S. Brown, P. J. Woods, Ignacio Porras, F. Käppeler, J. Andrzejewski, I. Knapova, Y. Kadi, J. M. Quesada, D. Cano-Ott, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, P. Vaz, F. Gunsing, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, G. Vannini, L. Cosentino, V. Vlachoudis, F. Mingrone, Cristian Massimi, L. Tassan-Got, Simone Gilardoni, N. Patronis, Sergio Cristallo, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, Alberto Mengoni, I. Ladarescu, Diego Vescovi, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Claudia Lederer-Woods, M. Caamaño, V. Michalopoulou, E. Mendoza, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Oprea, Alberto Ventura, P. M. Milazzo, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, U. Jiri, L. Caballero, Peter Schillebeeckx, Kathrin Göbel, Deniz Kurtulgil, J. Moreno-Soto, R. Vlastou, E. Berthoumieux, P. J. Davies, Jan Heyse, A. Musumarra, E. Chiaveri, F. Calviño, P. F. Mastinu, C. Rubbia, J. Perkowski, Javier Praena, S. Heinitz, C. Petrone, Q. Ducasse, J. L. Tain, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, S. Valenta, R. Garg, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, S. Urlass, V. Babiano-Suarez, A. Manna, A. Gawlik, E. González-Romero, P. Torres-Sánchez, M. Mastromarco, Massimo Barbagallo, Anton Wallner, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, I. Duran, L. A. Damone, B. Thomas, V. Alcayne, E. Dupont, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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), 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Large Hadron Collider, Computer science, Physics, QC1-999, 020209 energy, Nuclear engineering, Nuclear Theory, 02 engineering and technology, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear technology, Upgrade, Neutron flux, 0103 physical sciences, n_TOF, CERN, neutron time of flight, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Neutron cross section, Nuclear astrophysics, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

International audience; Since the start of its operation in 2001, based on an idea of Prof. Carlo Rubbia [1], the neutron time of-flight facility of CERN, n_TOF, has become one of the most forefront neutron facilities in the world for wide-energy spectrum neutron cross section measurements. Thanks to the combination of excellent neutron energy resolution and high instantaneous neutron flux available in the two experimental areas, the second of which has been constructed in 2014, n_TOF is providing a wealth of new data on neutron-induced reactions of interest for nuclear astrophysics, advanced nuclear technologies and medical applications. The unique features of the facility will continue to be exploited in the future, to perform challenging new measurements addressing the still open issues and long-standing quests in the field of neutron physics. In this document the main characteristics of the n_TOF facility and their relevance for neutron studies in the different areas of research will be outlined, addressing the possible future contribution of n_TOF in the fields of nuclear astrophysics, nuclear technologies and medical applications. In addition, the future perspectives of the facility will be described including the upgrade of the spallation target, the setup of an imaging installation and the construction of a new irradiation area.

Published
2020

35. New reaction rates for the destruction of $^7$Be during big bang nucleosynthesis measured at CERN/n_TOF and their implications on the cosmological lithium problem

Author

Z. Eleme, M. Mastromarco, Massimo Barbagallo, I. Knapova, Anton Wallner, S. Valenta, Rugard Dressler, P. Vaz, M. Krtička, Marco Calviani, A. Gawlik, G. Vannini, A. G. Smith, A. Tsinganis, T. Martinez, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Alberto Ventura, M. Dietz, Luciano Piersanti, M. Caamaño, Nicola Colonna, P. J. Woods, I. Ladarescu, Vasilis Vlachoudis, E. González-Romero, F. Ogállar, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. J. Davies, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, L. Audouin, N. V. Sosnin, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, O. Aberle, E. Chiaveri, J. Moreno-Soto, Alberto Mengoni, E. Dupont, A. Pavlik, P. Sprung, G. Cortes, P. F. Mastinu, M. A. Millán-Callado, L. A. Damone, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, C. Domingo-Pardo, A. Kimura, A. Casanovas, R. Garg, P. Torres-Sánchez, S. Bennett, M. Bacak, A. Stamatopoulos, A. Masi, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, L. Cosentino, J. L. Tain, D. G. Jenkins, Kathrin Göbel, Y. Kadi, F. Gunsing, I. Duran, M. Kokkoris, D. Bosnar, Jan Heyse, E. Pirovano, S. Urlass, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, E. Jericha, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Cristian Massimi, B. Thomas, Deniz Kurtulgil, V. Alcayne, R. Vlastou, Rene Reifarth, Paolo Finocchiaro, E. Berthoumieux, Dorothea Schumann, J. M. Quesada, Y. Kopatch, L. Tassan-Got, Sergio Cristallo, C. Rubbia, Q. Ducasse, V. Michalopoulou, F. Mingrone, F. Calviño, E. Mendoza, J. Perkowski, V. Variale, Peter Schillebeeckx, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, S. Heinitz, C. Petrone, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, A. S. Brown, P. M. Milazzo, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Oprea, Ignacio Porras, D. Cano-Ott, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, Maurizio Busso, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, V Babiano-Suarez, A. Manna, J. Andrzejewski, F. Cerutti, L. Caballero, Simone Gilardoni, U. Jiri, Javier Praena, Diego Vescovi, A. Musumarra, 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, 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, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Large Hadron Collider, n_TOF, 7Be, big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmological lithium problem, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, chemistry.chemical_element, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Reaction rate, Nuclear physics, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, chemistry, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Neutron, Lithium, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

New measurements of the7Be(n,α)4He and7Be(n,p)7Li reaction cross sections from thermal to keV neutron energies have been recently performed at CERN/n_TOF. Based on the new experimental results, astrophysical reaction rates have been derived for both reactions, including a proper evaluation of their uncertainties in the thermal energy range of interest for big bang nucleosynthesis studies. The new estimate of the7Be destruction rate, based on these new results, yields a decrease of the predicted cosmological7Li abundance insufficient to provide a viable solution to the cosmological lithium problem.

Published
2020

36. Study of photon strength functions of 241Pu and 245Cm from neutron capture measurements

Author

G. Cortes, D. Bosnar, Z. Talip, J. L. Tain, Rene Reifarth, A. Kimura, Niko Kivel, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, M. Dietz, N. V. Sosnin, F. Ogállar, A. Masi, Annamaria Mazzone, V. Babiano-Suarez, D. G. Jenkins, Petar Žugec, Y. Kadi, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, A. Pavlik, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, B. Fernández-Domíngez, Francesca Matteucci, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. Kokkoris, A. Oprea, A. Manna, C. Rubbia, A. Casanovas, Z. Eleme, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, A. Mengoni, J. M. Quesada, M. Krtička, J. Andrzejewski, A. V. Skarbeli, L. Caballero, L. Tassan-Got, J. Ulrich, I. Duran, P. J. Woods, F. Cerutti, M. Mastromarco, T. Martinez, Sergio Cristallo, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, L. Audouin, P. Vaz, V. Michalopoulou, N. Patronis, L. Cosentino, A. K. Saxena, E. Berthoumieux, G. Vannini, Alberto Ventura, Arnaud Ferrari, Y. H. Chen, I. Ladarescu, A. Gawlik, Alexandru Negret, M. Caamaño, Massimo Barbagallo, J. Billowes, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, F. Käppeler, O. Aberle, Maurizio Busso, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, D. Cano-Ott, Anton Wallner, M. Diakaki, Simone Gilardoni, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, A. Musumarra, Ralf Nolte, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, F. Mingrone, L. A. Damone, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, Ignacio Porras, A. Stamatopoulos, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, G. Bellia, P. Torres-Sánchez, Kathrin Göbel, Jan Heyse, F. Gunsing, Rugard Dressler, A. Tsinganis, Luciano Piersanti, Nicola Colonna, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Cristian Massimi, M. Bacak, T. Glodariu, F. Bečvář, Y. Kopatch, E. Mendoza, Peter Schillebeeckx, Claudia Lederer-Woods, V. Bécares, Deniz Kurtulgil, F. Calviño, J. Perkowski, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, R. Garg, S. Urlass, A. S. Brown, P. M. Milazzo, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, S. Heinitz, V. Alcayne, E. Dupont, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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, and 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)

Subjects
Physics, Photon, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Solid angle, n_TOF, photon strength function, 241Pu, 245Cm, neutron time of flight, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Nuclear physics, Neutron capture, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
Abstract

International audience; We have measured theγ-rays following neutron capture on240Pu and244Cm at the n_TOF facility at CERN with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) and with C6D6 organic scintillators. The TAC is made of 40 BaF2 crystals operating in coincidence and covering almost the entire solid angle. This allows to obtain information concerning the energy spectra and the multiplicity of the measured captureγ-ray cascades. Additional information is also obtained from the C6D6 detectors. We have analyzed the measured data in order to draw conclusions about the Photon Strength Functions (PSFs) of241Pu and245Cm below their neutron separation energies. The analysis has been performed by fitting the PSFs to the experimental results, using the differential evolution method, in order to find neutron capture cascades capable of reproducing at the same time a great variety of deposited energy spectra.

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2020

37. Accurate measurement of the standard 235U(n,f) cross section from thermal to 170 keV neutron energy

Author

A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, J. Lerendegui-Marco, Pedro G. Ferreira, S. Amaducci, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, P. Kavrigin, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, I. F. Gonçalves, Ralf Nolte, M. Kokkoris, S. Valenta, A. Mengoni, F. Cerutti, D. Bosnar, J. Marganiec, Marco Calviani, E. Griesmayer, Simone Gilardoni, A. G. Smith, F. Mingrone, G. Tagliente, R. Cardella, L. A. Damone, C. Lederer, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, G. Vannini, N. V. Sosnin, Rugard Dressler, J. L. Tain, P. J. Woods, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, F. Bečvář, E. Mendoza, C. Weiss, Niko Kivel, A. Kimura, N. Patronis, A. Casanovas, A. K. Saxena, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, I. Knapova, A. Masi, O. Aberle, Rene Reifarth, A. R. García, P. Vaz, Arnaud Ferrari, F. Calviño, Nicola Colonna, H. Leeb, Peter Schillebeeckx, M. Caamaño, M. A. Cortés-Girardo, D. Cano-Ott, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Vasilis Vlachoudis, A. Musumarra, D. G. Jenkins, J. Billowes, M. Diakaki, A. Stamatopoulos, Alberto Ventura, J. Perkowski, M. Mastromarco, Kathrin Göbel, L. Cosentino, Ignacio Porras, M. Bacak, Mario Barbagallo, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. V. Sedyshev, M. Krtička, F. Gunsing, A. Manna, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, E. Leal-Cidoncha, T. Glodariu, A. Gawlik, Anton Wallner, Thomas Rauscher, Jan Heyse, T. Martinez, A. Oprea, G. Cortes, Cristian Massimi, A. Kalamara, J. Balibrea, E. González-Romero, Y. H. Chen, C. Rubbia, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Y. Kadi, D. Macina, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, Carlos Guerrero, E. Berthoumieux, E. Jericha, L. Audouin, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, Hideo Harada, Alexandru Negret, J. A. Ryan, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Käppeler, A. S. Brown, S. Warren, P. M. Milazzo, V. Variale, S. Heinitz, J. Andrzejewski, I. Duran, E. Dupont, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., 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), 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, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, and 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)

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Silicon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Monte Carlo method, Detector, n_TOF, 235U, fission, neutron time of flight, chemistry.chemical_element, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

An accurate measurement of the 235U(n,f) cross section from thermal to 170 keV of neutron energy has recently been performed at n_TOF facility at CERN using 6Li(n,t)4He and 10B(n,α)7Li as references. This measurement has been carried out in order to investigate a possible overestimation of the 235U fission cross section evaluation provided by most recent libraries between 10 and 30 keV. A custom experimental apparatus based on in-beam silicon detectors has been used, and a Monte Carlo simulation in GEANT4 has been employed to characterize the setup and calculate detectors efficiency. The results evidenced the presence of an overestimation in the interval between 9 and 18 keV and the new data may be used to decrease the uncertainty of 235U(n,f) cross section in the keV region.

Published
2020

38. Measurement of the 244Cm capture cross sections at both CERN n_TOF experimental areas

Author

F. Calviño, G. Cortes, J. Perkowski, Rugard Dressler, F. Gunsing, F. Ogállar, S. Valenta, Y. Kopatch, Cristian Massimi, A. Tsinganis, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, Marco Calviani, Luciano Piersanti, P. J. Woods, Simone Gilardoni, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Nicola Colonna, J. Andrzejewski, A. Mengoni, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, Vasilis Vlachoudis, I. Duran, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, E. Chiaveri, N. Patronis, P. F. Mastinu, A. K. Saxena, Deniz Kurtulgil, A. Kimura, B. Fernández-Domíngez, G. Bellia, O. Aberle, A. Casanovas, Arnaud Ferrari, P. Torres-Sánchez, I. Ladarescu, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, P. Vaz, J. Billowes, A. Oprea, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, L. Audouin, V. Michalopoulou, Dorothea Schumann, N. V. Sosnin, Annamaria Mazzone, Ralf Nolte, F. Cerutti, Alberto Ventura, L. Cosentino, Petar Žugec, G. Vannini, S. Urlass, L. A. Damone, J. L. Tain, M. Bacak, A. S. Brown, Z. Talip, A. Pavlik, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, M. Krtička, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Niko Kivel, M. Mastromarco, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. Kokkoris, M. Caamaño, F. Bečvář, Rene Reifarth, Massimo Barbagallo, T. Martinez, T. Glodariu, Anton Wallner, A. Masi, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, P. M. Milazzo, E. Mendoza, S. Heinitz, C. Rubbia, Y. Kadi, R. Garg, D. G. Jenkins, A. Gawlik, D. Bosnar, Peter Schillebeeckx, A. Stamatopoulos, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, Y. H. Chen, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Z. Eleme, Kathrin Göbel, Sergio Cristallo, E. González-Romero, Jan Heyse, V. Alcayne, J. Ulrich, V. Bécares, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, E. Dupont, F. Mingrone, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, V. Babiano-Suarez, A. Manna, A. Musumarra, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Maurizio Busso, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Ignacio Porras, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, Francesca Matteucci, L. Caballero, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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, 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Materials science, Isotope, Nuclear transmutation, n_TOF, 244Cm, neutron capture, neutron time of flight, Physics, QC1-999, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Calorimeter, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Neutron capture, 0302 clinical medicine, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Neutron, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Decay heat, 010306 general physics, Burnup
Abstract

Accurate neutron capture cross section data for minor actinides (MAs) are required to estimate the production and transmutation rates of MAs in light water reactors with a high burnup, critical fast reactors like Gen-IV systems and other innovative reactor systems such as accelerator driven systems (ADS). Capture reactions of244Cm open the path for the formation of heavier Cm isotopes and of heavier elements such as Bk and Cf. In addition,244Cm shares nearly 50% of the total actinide decay heat in irradiated reactor fuels with a high burnup, even after three years of cooling.Experimental data for this isotope are very scarce due to the difficulties of providing isotopically enriched samples and because the high intrinsic activity of the samples requires the use of neutron facilities with high instantaneous flux. The only two previous experimental data sets for this neutron capture cross section have been obtained in 1969 using a nuclear explosion and, more recently, at J-PARC in 2010. The neutron capture cross sections have been measured at n_TOF with the same samples that the previous experiments in J-PARC. The samples were measured at n_TOF Experimental Area 2 (EAR-2) with three C6D6detectors and also in Experimental Area 1 (EAR-1) with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC). Preliminary results assessing the quality and limitations of these new experimental datasets are presented for the experiments in both areas. Preliminary yields of both measurements will be compared with evaluated libraries for the first time.

Published
2020

39. Neutron Capture on the s -Process Branching Point Tm 171

Author

C. Guerrero, J. Lerendegui-Marco, M. Paul, M. Tessler, S. Heinitz, C. Domingo-Pardo, S. Cristallo, R. Dressler, S. Halfon, N. Kivel, U. Köster, E. A. Maugeri, T. Palchan-Hazan, J. M. Quesada, D. Rochman, D. Schumann, L. Weissman, O. Aberle, S. Amaducci, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Bécares, M. Bacak, J. Balibrea, A. Barak, M. Barbagallo, S. Barros, F. Bečvář, C. Beinrucker, D. Berkovit

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2020
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40. Monte Carlo simulations and n-p differential scattering data measured with Proton Recoil Telescopes

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Z. Eleme, M. Bacak, N. V. Sosnin, S. Urlass, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, Alexandru Negret, J. Moreno-Soto, F. Käppeler, P. Sprung, Rugard Dressler, C. Rubbia, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, E. Dupont, E. Pirovano, V. Michalopoulou, J. Andrzejewski, Luciano Piersanti, E. Mendoza, Nicola Colonna, Q. Ducasse, Vasilis Vlachoudis, A. Mengoni, Peter Schillebeeckx, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Diego Vescovi, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, I. Duran, Simone Gilardoni, R. Garg, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, J. L. Tain, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, S. Bennett, S. Heinitz, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, M. Kokkoris, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, D. Cano-Ott, A. Stamatopoulos, C. Petrone, A. Pavlik, V. Babiano-Suarez, R. Vlastou, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, E. Berthoumieux, U. Jiri, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Deniz Kurtulgil, C. Domingo-Pardo, E. Chiaveri, P. F. Mastinu, F. Calviño, A. Kimura, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Oprea, M. Mastromarco, L. Cosentino, B. Thomas, Y. Kadi, A. Musumarra, Maurizio Busso, Massimo Barbagallo, J. Perkowski, A. Manna, P. J. Woods, Kathrin Göbel, F. Gunsing, Anton Wallner, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Jan Heyse, F. Ogállar, J. Lerendegui-Marco, Cristian Massimi, Arnaud Ferrari, V. Alcayne, F. Cerutti, L. A. Damone, S. Amaducci, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, I. Ladarescu, G. Cortes, D. Bosnar, F. Mingrone, A. Masi, Y. Kopatch, M. Krtička, A. Casanovas, D. G. Jenkins, Javier Praena, T. Martinez, Ignacio Porras, L. Audouin, G. Vannini, I. Knapova, M. Caamaño, P. Vaz, P. J. Davies, Alberto Ventura, L. Caballero, O. Aberle, M. A. Millán-Callado, A. Gawlik, E. González-Romero, Rene Reifarth, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, Sergio Cristallo, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, A. S. Brown, N. Terranova, P. M. Milazzo, 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Fission, QC1-999, Monte Carlo method, Nuclear Theory, n_TOF, proton recoil, Monte Carlo simulations, neutron time of flight, Neutron radiation, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Recoil, Neutron flux, Proton transport, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The authors wish to thank the National Center of the INFN for Research and Development in Information and Communication Technologies (CNAF) for their computational support., The neutron-induced fission cross section of U-235, a standard at thermal energy and between 0.15 MeV and 200 MeV, plays a crucial role in nuclear technology applications. The long-standing need of improving cross section data above 20 MeV and the lack of experimental data above 200 MeV motivated a new experimental campaign at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The measurement has been performed in 2018 at the experimental area 1 (EAR1), located at 185 m from the neutron-producing target (the experiment is presented by A. Manna et al. in a contribution to this conference). The U-235(n,f) cross section from 20 MeV up to about 1 GeV has been measured relative to the H-1(n,n)H-1 reaction, which is considered the primary reference in this energy region. The neutron flux impinging on the U-235 sample (a key quantity for determining the fission events) has been obtained by detecting recoil protons originating from n-p scattering in a C2H4 sample. Two Proton Recoil Telescopes (PRT), consisting of several layers of solid-state detectors and fast plastic scintillators, have been located at proton scattering angles of 25.07 degrees and 20.32 degrees, out of the neutron beam. The PRTs exploit the Delta E-E technique for particle identification, a basic requirement for the rejection of charged particles from neutron-induced reactions in carbon. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations were performed to characterize proton transport through the different slabs of silicon and scintillation detectors, to optimize the experimental set-up and to deduce the efficiency of the whole PRT detector. In this work we compare measured data collected with the PRTs with a full Monte Carlo simulation based on the Geant-4 toolkit.

Published
2020

41. First results of the Th-230(n,f) cross section measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility

Author

P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Mengoni, F. Ogállar, M. Mastromarco, Massimo Barbagallo, Anton Wallner, N. V. Sosnin, G. Tagliente, Rugard Dressler, A. Musumarra, Annamaria Mazzone, G. Cortes, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, P. J. Woods, D. Ramos Doval, Y. Kopatch, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, A. Oprea, A. Pavlik, Petar Žugec, P. Sprung, A. Tsinganis, C. Domingo-Pardo, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Simone Gilardoni, L. Audouin, J. L. Tain, Luciano Piersanti, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Arnaud Ferrari, Alexandru Negret, E. Chiaveri, Nicola Colonna, F. Käppeler, P. F. Mastinu, A. Casanovas, Vasilis Vlachoudis, I. Ladarescu, E. Pirovano, U. Jiri, A. Kimura, E. Dupont, O. Aberle, S. Urlass, G. Vannini, M. A. Millán-Callado, S. Bennett, V. Variale, V. Babiano-Suarez, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, J. Andrzejewski, A. Gawlik, B. Femández-Domíngez, A. Stamatopoulos, L. Cosentino, M. Caamaño, R. Vlastou, V. Michalopoulou, Maurizio Busso, Y. Kadi, E. Jericha, E. Berthoumieux, P. J. Davies, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, E. Mendoza, Z. Eleme, Paolo Finocchiaro, L. A. Damone, I. Knapova, Dorothea Schumann, M. Kokkoris, Javier Praena, A. Manna, Peter Schillebeeckx, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Rene Reifarth, P. Vaz, Deniz Kurtulgil, M. Bacak, B. Thomas, J. Moreno-Soto, A. S. Brown, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, F. Calviño, Kathrin Göbel, A. Masi, I. Duran, Alberto Ventura, L. Caballero, M. Krtiička, C. Rubbia, E. González-Romero, J. Perkowski, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, F. Cerutti, D. G. Jenkins, S. Heinitz, Jan Heyse, D. Bosnar, C. Petrone, F. Gunsing, Ignacio Porras, V. Alcayne, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, Q. Ducasse, D. Cano-Ott, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, P. M. Milazzo, J. M. Quesada, T. Martinez, R. Garg, Cristian Massimi, S. Valenta, L. Tassan-Got, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, Sergio Cristallo, F. Mingrone, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Diego Vescovi, CEA Cadarache, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), 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, 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), Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), n_TOF, 230Th, fission, neutron time of flight, Large Hadron Collider, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Fission, QC1-999, MicroMegas detector, Actinide, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics), Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

The study of neutron-induced reactions on actinides is of considerable importance for the design of advanced nuclear systems and alternative fuel cycles. Specifically, 230Th is produced from the α-decay of 234U as a byproduct of the 232Th/233U fuel cycle, thus the accurate knowledge of its fission cross section is strongly required. However, few experimental datasets exist in literature with large deviations among them, covering the energy range between 0.2 to 25 MeV. In addition, the study of the 230Th(n,f) cross-section is of great interest in the research on the fission process related to the structure of the fission barriers. Previous measurements have revealed a large resonance at En=715 keV and additional fine structures, but with high discrepancies among the cross-section values of these measurements. This contribution presents preliminary results of the 230Th(n,f) cross-section measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility. The high purity targets of the natural, but very rare isotope 230Th, were produced at JRC-Geel in Belgium. The measurements were performed at both experimental areas (EAR-1 and EAR-2) of the n_TOF facility, covering a very broad energy range from thermal up to at least 100 MeV. The experimental setup was based on Micromegas detectors with the 235U(n,f) and 238U(n,f) reaction cross-sections used as reference.

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2020
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42. Preparation and characterization of 33S samples for 33S(n,α)30Si cross-section measurements at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author

J. Praena, F.J. Ferrer, W. Vollenberg, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, B. Fernández, J. García-López, I. Porras, J.M. Quesada, S. Altstadt, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Bécares, M. Barbagallo, F. Bečvář, F. Belloni, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, V. Boccone, D. Bosnar, M. Brugger, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, C. Carrapiço, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, M. Chin, N. Colonna, G. Cortés, M.A. Cortés-Giraldo, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, I. Durán, C. Eleftheriadis, A. Ferrari, K. Fraval, V. Furman, K. Göbel, M.B. Gómez-Hornillos, S. Ganesan, A.R. García, G. Giubrone, I.F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, A. Goverdovski, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, T. Heftrich, A. Hernández-Prieto, J. Heyse, D.G. Jenkins, E. Jericha, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, D. Karadimos, T. Katabuchi, V. Ketlerov, V. Khryachkov, N. Kivel, P. Koehler, M. Kokkoris, J. Kroll, M. Krtička, C. Lampoudis, C. Langer, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Lederer, H. Leeb, L.S. Leong, J. Lerendegui-Marco, R. Losito, A. Mallick, A. Manousos, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, C. Massimi, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. Mendoza, A. Mengoni, P.M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, M. Mirea, W. Mondelaers, C. Paradela, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, A.J.M. Plompen, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, A. Riego-Perez, M. Robles, C. Rubbia, J.A. Ryan, R. Sarmento, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, G. Tagliente, J.L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, D. Tarrío, L. Tassan-Got, A. Tsinganis, S. Valenta, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, M.J. Vermeulen, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, T. Ware, M. Weigand, C. Weiss, T. Wright, and P. Žugec

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Thin layers, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Analytical chemistry, chemistry.chemical_element, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Copper, Kapton, Chromium, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Sublimation (phase transition), Neutron, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Titanium
Abstract

Thin 33S samples for the study of the 33S(n, α)30Si cross-section at the n_TOF facility at CERN were made by thermal evaporation of 33S powder onto a dedicated substrate made of kapton covered with thin layers of copper, chromium and titanium. This method has provided for the first time bare sulfur samples a few centimeters in diameter. The samples have shown an excellent adherence with no mass loss after few years and no sublimation in vacuum at room temperature. The determination of the mass thickness of 33S has been performed by means of Rutherford backscattering spectrometry. The samples have been successfully tested under neutron irradiation.

Published
2018

43. 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

44. $^{80}$Se(n,$\gamma$) cross-section measurement at CERN n_TOF

Author

I. Knapova, P. Vaz, F. Mingrone, E. Jericha, J. Andrzejewski, Luis Caballero, Paolo Finocchiaro, A. Gawlik, F. Ogállar, V. Vlachoudis, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, G. Vannini, F. Gunsing, Javier Praena, J. L. Tain, Cristian Massimi, F. Calviño, J. Perkowski, Alberto Ventura, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Z. Eleme, A. Casanovas, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, E. Mendoza, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, Rene Reifarth, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, Carlos Guerrero, L. Cosentino, S. Heinitz, A. Tsinganis, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, R. Garg, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, P. J. Davies, A. Kimura, Diego Vescovi, C. Petrone, Luciano Piersanti, Sergio Cristallo, E. González-Romero, Alfredo Ferrari, Nicola Colonna, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortes, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, D. Cano-Ott, M. Caamaño, O. Aberle, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, P. J. Woods, E. Dupont, J. Balibrea-Correa, D. Macina, S. Valenta, F. Cerutti, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, P. M. Milazzo, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, A. S. Brown, A. Pavlik, N. Patronis, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. Bacak, A. Musumarra, M. A. Millán-Callado, Marco Calviani, P. Schillebeeckx, Mario Barbagallo, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. G. Smith, D. Schumann, Ignacio Porras, C. Rubbia, Simone Gilardoni, S. Urlass, P. Torres-Sánchez, Alberto Mengoni, I. Ladarescu, A. Oprea, J. Heyse, M. Dietz, M. Mastromarco, U. Jiri, Q. Ducasse, A. Saxena, V. Michalopoulou, K. Göbel, Anton Wallner, S. Bennett, A. Masi, A. Stamatopoulos, T. Wright, J. Moreno-Soto, D. G. Jenkins, I. Duran, Maurizio Busso, R. Vlastou, R. Dressler, Damir Bosnar, Y. Kadi, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, L. A. Damone, M. Krtička, T. Martinez, E. Berthoumieux, N. V. Sosnin, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, P. Sprung, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, E. Pirovano, V. Babiano-Suarez, A. Manna, V. Furman, B. Thomas, V. Alcayne, L. Audouin, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Deniz Kurtulgil, 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), 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), Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, European Research Council (ERC) 681740, Babiano-Suarez V., Aberle O., Alcayne V., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Audouin L., Bacak M., Balibrea-Correa J., Barbagallo M., Bennett S., Berthoumieux E., Bosnar D., Brown A.S., Busso M., Caamao M., Caballero L., Calviani M., Calvio F., Cano-Ott D., Casanovas A., Cerutti F., Chiaveri E., Colonna N., Cortes G.P., Cortes-Giraldo M.A., Cosentino L., Cristallo S., Damone L.A., Davies P.J., Diakaki M., Dietz M., Domingo-Pardo C., Dressler R., Ducasse Q., Dupont E., Durn I., Eleme Z., Fernndez-Domingez B., Ferrari A., Ferro-Goncalves I., Finocchiaro P., Furman V., Garg R., Gawlik A., Gilardoni S., Gobel K., Gonzlez-Romero E., Guerrero C., Gunsing F., Heinitz S., Heyse J., Jenkins D.G., Jericha E., Jiri U., Junghans A., Kadi Y., Kappeler F., Kimura A., Knapov I., Kokkoris M., Kopatch Y., Krticka M., Kurtulgil D., Ladarescu I., Lederer-Woods C., Lerendegui-Marco J., Lonsdale S.-J., Macina D., Manna A., Martinez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinu P.F., Mastromarco M., Maugeri E., Mazzone A., Mendoza E., Mengoni A., Michalopoulou V., Milazzo P.M., Milln-Callado M.A., Mingrone F., Moreno-Soto J., Musumarra A., Negret A., Ogllar F., Oprea A., Patronis N., Pavlik A., Perkowski J., Petrone C., Piersanti L., Pirovano E., Porras I., Praena J., Quesada J.M., Ramos Doval D., Reifarth R., Rochman D., Rubbia C., Sabate-Gilarte M., Saxena A., Schillebeeckx P., Schumann D., Sekhar A., Smith A.G., Sosnin N., Sprung P., Stamatopoulos A., Tagliente G., Tain J.L., Tarifeo-Saldivia A.E., Tassan-Got L., Thomas B., Torres-Snchez P., Tsinganis A., Urlass S., Valenta S., Vannini G., Variale V., Vaz P., Ventura A., Vescovi D., Vlachoudis V., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Woods P.J., Wright T.J., Zugec P., Babiano-Suarez, V., Aberle, O., Alcayne, V., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Bacak, M., Balibrea-Correa, J., Barbagallo, M., Bennett, S., Berthoumieux, E., Bosnar, D., Brown, A. S., Busso, M., Caamao, M., Caballero, L., Calviani, M., Calvio, F., Cano-Ott, D., Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortes, G. P., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., Damone, L. A., Davies, P. J., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Ducasse, Q., Dupont, E., Durn, I., Eleme, Z., Fernndez-Domingez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferro-Goncalves, I., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Garg, R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Gobel, K., Gonzlez-Romero, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Jiri, U., Junghans, A., Kadi, Y., Kappeler, F., Kimura, A., Knapov, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Ladarescu, I., Lederer-Woods, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Lonsdale, S. -J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Martinez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P. F., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Milln-Callado, M. A., Mingrone, F., Moreno-Soto, J., Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Ogllar, F., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Petrone, C., Piersanti, L., Pirovano, E., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Ramos Doval, D., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Rubbia, C., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Saxena, A., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Sekhar, A., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N., Sprung, P., Stamatopoulos, A., Tagliente, G., Tain, J. L., Tarifeo-Saldivia, A. E., Tassan-Got, L., Thomas, B., Torres-Snchez, P., Tsinganis, A., Urlass, S., Valenta, S., Vannini, G., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Ventura, A., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Woods, P. J., Wright, T. J., and Zugec, P.

Subjects
Physics, History, Large Hadron Collider, Isotope, General Physics and Astronomy, 80Se, neutron capture, neutron time of flight, n_TOF, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, s process, neutron physics, Time of flight, Nucleosynthesis, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Radiative transfer, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Slow neutron, 010306 general physics, s-process, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

Radiative neutron capture cross section measurements are of fundamental importance for the study of the slow neutron capture (s-) process of nucleosynthesis. This mechanism is responsible for the formation of most elements heavier than iron in the Universe. Particularly relevant are branching nuclei along the s-process path, which are sensitive to the physical conditions of the stellar environment. One such example is the branching at 79Se (3.27 × 105 y), which shows a thermally dependent β-decay rate. However, an astrophysically consistent interpretation requires also the knowledge of the closest neighbour isotopes involved. In particular, the 80Se(n,γ) cross section directly affects the stellar yield of the “cold” branch leading to the formation of the s-only 82Kr. Experimentally, there exists only one previous measurement on 80Se using the time of flight (TOF) technique. However, the latter suffers from some limitations that are described in this presentation. These drawbacks have been significantly improved in a recent measurement at CERN n TOF. This contribution presents a summary of the latter measurement and the status of the data analysis.

Published
2019

45. Thermal (n,γ) cross section and resonance integral ofTm171

Author

Christoph Langer, S. Fiebiger, Tanja Heftrich, F. Ludwig, K. Scheutwinkel, Rene Reifarth, Ch. E. Düllmann, Norbert Wiehl, J. D. Kaiser, Jan Glorius, J. Lerendegui-Marco, F. Käppeler, S. Lohse, Kathrin Göbel, Klaus Eberhardt, Carlos Guerrero, Mario Weigand, C. Wolf, Ulli Köster, Raphael Haas, S. Heinitz, D. Renisch, and Dorothea Schumann

Subjects
Physics, Cross section (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics)
Published
2019

46. Measurement of the 235 U(n,f) cross section at n_TOF from thermal to 170 keV

Author

Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Alexandru Negret, Rene Reifarth, M. Kokkoris, M. Krtička, F. Mingrone, C. Lederer, I. Knapova, B. Fernández-Domínguez, F. Käppeler, P. Vaz, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, P. J. Woods, A. Kalamara, Alberto Ventura, T. Martinez, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, Alberto Mengoni, J. Billowes, G. Tagliente, F. Gunsing, A. Pavlik, G. Vannini, A. Oprea, A. Kimura, Cristian Massimi, C. Domingo-Pardo, M. Bacak, A. Casanovas, M. Caamaño, Y. H. Chen, Simone Gilardoni, L. Audouin, L. Cosentino, A. Masi, Mario Barbagallo, A. S. Brown, T. Glodariu, F. Bečvář, D. G. Jenkins, R. Vlastou, Rugard Dressler, D. Radeck, R. Cardella, M. Mastromarco, E. Berthoumieux, D. Bosnar, D. Macina, G. Cortes, Carlos Guerrero, E. Mendoza, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, J. L. Tain, Nicola Colonna, J. Marganiec, S. Heinitz, J. Perkowski, E. Dupont, F. Cerutti, Kathrin Göbel, A. Stamatopoulos, Peter Schillebeeckx, A. Manna, C. Weiss, Jan Heyse, P. M. Milazzo, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, E. Chiaveri, N. V. Sosnin, P. F. Mastinu, Anton Wallner, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, Niko Kivel, Pedro G. Ferreira, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, Deniz Kurtulgil, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, A. Musumarra, P. V. Sedyshev, J. Balibrea, S. Warren, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, V. Variale, Ignacio Porras, S. Amaducci, C. Rubbia, E. Jericha, O. Aberle, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, J. A. Ryan, J. Lerendegui-Marco, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, I. F. Gonçalves, Hideo Harada, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, E. Leal-Cidoncha, A. Gawlik, Thomas Rauscher, P. Kavrigin, Ralf Nolte, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, E. González-Romero, A. R. García, I. Duran, J. Andrzejewski, V. Vlachoudis, S. Valenta, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, Y. Kadi, 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Anna Erickson, Marianne Hamm, and 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)

Subjects
cross-section, Cross-section, Fission, n_TOF, 235U, fission, neutron time of flight, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, uranium, Cross section (physics), Neutron flux, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, fission, Neutron, n_TOF, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Neutrons, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, neutrons, Order (ring theory), Neutron radiation, Standard, Neutron capture, Uranium, Other
Abstract

The [Formula: see text]U(n,f) cross section plays a key role for nuclear physics due to its widespread use as a standard reference for neutron cross section measurements and for neutron flux measurements. Recent experimental data of the fission cross section have suggested the presence of discrepancies around 6–8% with respect to the most used libraries, precisely in the range between 10 keV and 30 keV. In order to shed light on this disagreement, an accurate measurement of the [Formula: see text]U(n,f) fission cross section has been performed at n_TOF facility @CERN, using the standard reactions 6Li(n,t) and [Formula: see text]B(n,[Formula: see text] as reference. A custom experimental setup based on a stack of silicon detectors sandwiched between pairs of [Formula: see text]U, 6Li and [Formula: see text]B targets, has been installed along the neutron beam line to intercept the same neutron flux, allowing the detection of the fission fragments and the products of the reference reactions at the same time. Such a technique allows calculation of the cross section via the “ratio method”, by normalizing the [Formula: see text]U(n,f) reaction yields with respect to the reference reactions and to the recommended data in the IAEA libraries; in particular, the integral between 7.8 and 11 eV has been chosen. Accurate Monte Carlo simulations have allowed evaluation of the neutron absorption in the different layers, as well as the detection efficiency of each detector. The data are in excellent agreement with the standard values and highlight the overestimation of the [Formula: see text]U(n,f) cross section between 9 and 18 keV in the most recent libraries.

Published
2019

47. The $^{154}$Gd neutron capture cross section measured at the n_TOF facility and its astrophysical implications

Author

F. Ogállar, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, Z. Eleme, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, Ignacio Porras, A. Casanovas, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Oprea, O. Aberle, M. A. Millán-Callado, A. Musumarra, L. Caballero, A. Pavlik, J. Lerendegui-Marco, C. Domingo-Pardo, A. Masi, S. Amaducci, A. S. Brown, R. Vlastou, D. G. Jenkins, E. Berthoumieux, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, Rugard Dressler, L. Cosentino, A. Gawlik, Kathrin Göbel, Arnd R. Junghans, A. Kimura, J. Andrzejewski, P. Torres-Sánchez, Claudia Lederer-Woods, E. Dupont, Rene Reifarth, I. Duran, Jan Heyse, Y. Kopatch, S. Bennett, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, N. V. Sosnin, M. Mastromarco, I. Knapova, F. Cerutti, A. Stamatopoulos, J. M. Quesada, Y. Kadi, V. Vlachoudis, P. Vaz, Massimo Barbagallo, Annamaria Mazzone, L. Tassan-Got, Petar Žugec, A. Tsinganis, Diego Vescovi, Maurizio Busso, Sergio Cristallo, P. Sprung, B. Thomas, F. Mingrone, Anton Wallner, P. M. Milazzo, Simone Gilardoni, Alberto Ventura, Deniz Kurtulgil, Luciano Piersanti, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, L. A. Damone, V. Alcayne, U. Jiri, S. Valenta, Nicola Colonna, D. Cano-Ott, E. González-Romero, D. Bosnar, E. Pirovano, V. Michalopoulou, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, Marco Calviani, L. Audouin, E. Mendoza, Javier Praena, A. G. Smith, M. Krtička, M. Dietz, Peter Schillebeeckx, E. Jericha, V. Babiano-Suarez, S. Heinitz, F. Calviño, T. Martinez, Paolo Finocchiaro, C. Petrone, J. L. Tain, V. Furman, J. Perkowski, T. J. Wright, Dorothea Schumann, F. Gunsing, Cristian Massimi, E. Chiaveri, J. Moreno-Soto, P. F. Mastinu, S. Urlass, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, C. Rubbia, A. Mengoni, Q. Ducasse, A. Manna, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, R. Garg, M. Bacak, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, P. J. Woods, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Arnaud Ferrari, I. Ladarescu, G. Vannini, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Kokkoris, M. Caamaño, P. J. Davies, G. Cortes, 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), 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, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Physics, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, chemistry.chemical_element, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, Samarium, Neutron capture, Stellar nucleosynthesis, chemistry, n_TOF, 154Gd, neutron capture, neutron time of flight, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Neutron, Decay chain, Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The (n, γ) cross sections of the gadolinium isotopes play an important role in the study of the stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, among the isotopes heavier than Fe, 154Gd together with 152Gd have the peculiarity to be mainly produced by the slow capture process, the so-called s-process, since they are shielded against the β-decay chains from the r-process region by their stable samarium isobars. Such a quasi pure s-process origin makes them crucial for testing the robustness of stellar models in galactic chemical evolution (GCE). According to recent models, the 154Gd and 152Gd abundances are expected to be 15-20% lower than the reference un-branched s-process 150Sm isotope. The close correlation between stellar abundances and neutron capture cross sections prompted for an accurate measurement of 154Gd cross section in order to reduce the uncertainty attributable to nuclear physics input and eventually rule out one of the possible causes of present discrepancies between observation and model predictions. To this end, the neutron capture cross section of 154Gd was measured in a wide neutron energy range (from thermal up to some keV) with high resolution in the first experimental area of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF (EAR1) at CERN. In this contribution, after a brief description of the motivation and of the experimental setup used in the measurement, the preliminary results of the 154Gd neutron capture reaction as well as their astrophysical implications are presented.

Published
2019

48. Neutron capture cross section measurements of $^{241}$Am at the n_TOF facility

Author

A. Manna, Ralf Nolte, Alexandru Negret, F. Becčvář, F. Käppeler, M. Bacak, A. Kimura, Rene Reifarth, G. Vannini, Y. H. Chen, L. A. Damone, F. Gunsing, T. Glodariu, A. Oprea, O. Aberle, J. L. Tain, T. Talip, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Caamaño, L. Cosentino, M. Kokkoris, Cristian Massimi, L. Audouin, Claudia Lederer-Woods, V. Michalopoulou, P. Vaz, Rugard Dressler, E. Jericha, J. M. Quesada, F. Cerutti, L. Tassan-Got, Alberto Ventura, G. Cortes, Niko Kivel, Francesca Matteucci, A. Tsinganis, Paolo Finocchiaro, I. Duran, V. Alcayne, P. J. Woods, F. Calviño, J. Andrzejewski, Nicola Colonna, D. Bosnar, J. Perkowski, Dorothea Schumann, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Deniz Kurtulgil, E. Mendoza, J. Ulrich, A. Masi, M. Krtička, Sergio Cristallo, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Y. Kopatch, Vasilis Vlachoudis, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, T. Martinez, D. G. Jenkins, Arnaud Ferrari, N. V. Sosnin, Kathrin Göbel, C. Rubbia, I. Ladarescu, A. Stamatopoulos, I. F. Gonçalves, G. Bellia, F. Ogállar, Simone Gilardoni, Jan Heyse, J. Billowes, Annamaria Mazzone, P. Torres-Sánchez, Z. Eleme, E. Chiaveri, D. Cano-Ott, M. Diakaki, P. F. Mastinu, Petar Žugec, B. Femandez-Domínguez, A. Pavlik, V. Bécares, C. Domingo-Pardo, Hideo Harada, G. Tagliente, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, B. Geslot, A. Musumarra, E. Dupont, L. Caballero-Ontanaya, M. Mastromarco, D. Macina, A. Casanovas, D. Ramos-Doval, Carlos Guerrero, Y. Kadi, Massimo Barbagallo, R. Garg, A. Gawlik, S. Valenta, A. S. Brown, Marco Calviani, A. G. Smith, Javier Praena, S. Lo Meo, M. Dietz, Anton Wallner, P. M. Milazzo, Maurizio Busso, R. Vlastou, D. Radeck, L. Persanti, E. Berthoumieux, S. Urlass, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, E. González-Romero, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Ignacio Porras, A. Mengoni, S. Heinitz, V. Variale, Dimitri Rochman, F. Mingrone, V. Babiano-Suarez, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Cadarache, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), n_TOF, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, 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), Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., and Zhang, H.

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Time of flight, Cross section (physics), Neutron capture, Cascade, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron cross section, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Energy (signal processing), n_TOF, 241Am, neutron capture, neutron time of flight
Abstract

Neutron capture on 241Am plays an important role in the nuclear energy production and also provides valuable information for the improvement of nuclear models and the statistical interpretation of the nuclear properties. A new experiment to measure the 241Am(n, γ) cross section in the thermal region and the first few resonances below 10 eV has been carried out at EAR2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN. Three neutron-insensitive C6D6 detectors have been used to measure the neutron-capture gamma cascade as a function of the neutron time of flight, and then deduce the neutron capture yield. Preliminary results will be presented and compared with previously obtained results at the same facility in EAR1. In EAR1 the gamma-ray background at thermal energies was about 90% of the signal while in EAR2 is up to a 25 factor much more favorable signal to noise ratio. We also extended the low energy limit down to subthermal energies. This measurement will allow a comparison with neutron capture measurements conducted at reactors and using a different experimental technique.

Published
2019

49. Measurement of the energy-differential cross-section of the $^{12}$C(n,p)$^{12}$B and $^{12}$C(n,d)$^{11}$B reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author

Kathrin Göbel, P. J. Woods, N. Patronis, A. K. Saxena, Jan Heyse, Arnaud Ferrari, O. Aberle, I. Ladarescu, M. A. Millán-Callado, Diego Vescovi, I. Duran, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. Amaducci, Y. Kadi, M. Sabaté Gilarte, N. V. Sosnin, F. Ogállar, A. Kimura, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, M. Kokkoris, D. Cano-Ott, A. Sekhar, M. Diakaki, Rugard Dressler, I. Ferro-Gonçalves, J. Moreno-Soto, F. Calviño, J. Perkowski, M. Krtička, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, Simone Gilardoni, G. Tagliente, D. Ramos Doval, G. Vannini, A. Musumarra, Alexandru Negret, F. Käppeler, B. Fernández-Domíngez, A. Tsinganis, Luciano Piersanti, T. Martinez, L. A. Damone, P. Sprung, U. Jiri, A. Oprea, Nicola Colonna, V. Michalopoulou, L. Caballero, E. Mendoza, Deniz Kurtulgil, M. Mastromarco, M. Caamaño, V. Babiano-Suarez, J. Andrzejewski, Peter Schillebeeckx, V. Variale, S. Valenta, Dimitri Rochman, Arnd R. Junghans, Massimo Barbagallo, M. Bacak, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, V. Vlachoudis, Anton Wallner, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Rene Reifarth, Marco Calviani, P. J. Davies, A. Manna, E. Pirovano, G. Cortes, L. Cosentino, A. G. Smith, M. Dietz, J. M. Quesada, L. Tassan-Got, F. Mingrone, Sergio Cristallo, E. Chiaveri, Javier Praena, P. F. Mastinu, S. Urlass, C. Rubbia, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, A. Masi, S. Heinitz, P. Torres-Sánchez, R. Vlastou, C. Petrone, Q. Ducasse, E. Berthoumieux, D. G. Jenkins, D. Bosnar, S. Bennett, A. Stamatopoulos, Z. Eleme, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, R. Garg, J. L. Tain, A. Pavlik, C. Domingo-Pardo, L. Audouin, E. Jericha, Paolo Finocchiaro, Dorothea Schumann, A. S. Brown, P. M. Milazzo, Y. Kopatch, F. Gunsing, E. Dupont, I. Knapova, Cristian Massimi, P. Vaz, B. Thomas, V. Alcayne, Alberto Ventura, Maurizio Busso, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, Ignacio Porras, A. Mengoni, A. Gawlik, E. González-Romero, 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), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Ge, Z., Shu, N., Chen, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, H., and 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)

Subjects
Physics, Scattering cross-section, Nuclear reaction, Large Hadron Collider, Silicon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, chemistry.chemical_element, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Neutron temperature, Nuclear physics, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Graphite, 010306 general physics, n_TOF, 12C(n, p), 12C(n, d), neutron time of flight, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

Although the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11B reactions are of interest in several fields of basic and applied Nuclear Physics the present knowledge of these two cross-sections is far from being accurate and reliable, with both evaluations and data showing sizable discrepancies. As part of the challenging n_TOF program on (n,cp) nuclear reactions study, the energy differential cross-sections of the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11 B reactions have been measured at CERN from the reaction thresholds up to 30 MeV neutron energy. Both measurements have been recently performed at the long flight-path (185 m) experimental area of the n_TOF facility at CERN using a pure (99.95%) rigid graphite target and two silicon telescopes. In this paper an overview of the experiment is presented together with a few preliminary results.

Published
2019

50. Erratum to: Cross section measurements of 155, 157Gd(n,$\gamma$γ) induced by thermal and epithermal neutrons

Author

G. Cortes, P. Kavrigin, D. M. Castelluccio, A. S. Brown, A. Manna, G. Tagliente, Ralf Nolte, C. Rubbia, F. Gunsing, D. Macina, Carlos Guerrero, O. Aberle, A. Musumarra, E. Griesmayer, L. A. Damone, G. Vannini, Kathrin Göbel, M. Krtička, A. Mengoni, Cristian Massimi, Jan Heyse, P. M. Milazzo, M. Caamaño, Simone Gilardoni, Deniz Kurtulgil, P. J. Woods, A. Kalamara, V. Furman, T. J. Wright, Alexandru Negret, T. Martinez, J. Lerendegui-Marco, J. Andrzejewski, B. Fernández-Domínguez, R. Vlastou, F. Käppeler, D. Radeck, E. Berthoumieux, A. Pavlik, N. Patronis, A. Casanovas, A. Kimura, Hideo Harada, A. K. Saxena, Y. H. Chen, L. Audouin, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, M. Bacak, N. V. Sosnin, Arnaud Ferrari, R. Cardella, Annamaria Mazzone, Petar Žugec, C. Domingo-Pardo, F. Mingrone, T. Glodariu, L. Cosentino, I. Duran, C. Lederer, I. F. Gonçalves, Pedro G. Ferreira, P. Sedyshev, E. Jericha, J. Marganiec, Rugard Dressler, F. Rocchi, Paolo Finocchiaro, R. Wynants, A. Stamatopoulos, F. Cerutti, Dorothea Schumann, M. Mastromarco, J. A. Ryan, Mario Barbagallo, E. Chiaveri, J. Billowes, P. F. Mastinu, J. L. Tain, Rene Reifarth, Nicola Colonna, E. Dupont, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Anton Wallner, A. R. García, J. M. Quesada, J. Balibrea, Niko Kivel, L. Tassan-Got, Javier Praena, Ignacio Porras, F. Bečvář, F. Calviño, H. Leeb, S. Valenta, E. Leal-Cidoncha, E. Mendoza, J. Perkowski, Giulia Clai, Peter Schillebeeckx, S. Warren, D. Bosnar, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, A. Gawlik, A. Guglielmelli, A. Masi, Thomas Rauscher, C. Weiss, Marco Calviani, V. Variale, M. Kokkoris, D. G. Jenkins, A. G. Smith, E. González-Romero, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, S. J. Lonsdale, I. Knapova, P. Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Y. Kadi, A. Oprea, S. Heinitz, D. Cano-Ott, and M. Diakaki

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cross section (physics), Hadron, Thermal, Nuclear fusion, Epithermal neutron, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Abstract

After publication of the paper, the authors noticed some errors in the list of authors and in the list of affiliations. Their correct version is given in this erratum.

Published
2019

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