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1. Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar $^{54}$Fe($n, \gamma$)$^{55}$Fe cross sections via AMS

Author: Wallner, Anton, Belgya, Tamas, Buczak, Kathrin, Coquard, Laurent, Bichler, Max, Dillmann, Iris, Golser, Robin, Käppeler, Franz, Karakas, Amanda, Kutschera, Walter, Lederer, Claudia, Mengoni, Alberto, Pignatari, Marco, Priller, Alfred, Reifarth, Rene, Steier, Peter, and Szentmiklosi, Laszlo
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: The detection of long-lived radionuclides through ultra-sensitive single atom counting via accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) offers opportunities for precise measurements of neutron capture cross sections, e.g. for nuclear astrophysics. The technique represents a truly complementary approach, completely independent of previous experimental methods. The potential of this technique is highlighted at the example of the $^{54}$Fe($n, \gamma$)$^{55}$Fe reaction. Following a series of irradiations with neutrons from cold and thermal to keV energies, the produced long-lived $^{55}$Fe nuclei ($t_{1/2}=2.744(9)$ yr) were analyzed at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA). A reproducibility of about 1% could be achieved for the detection of $^{55}$Fe, yielding cross section uncertainties of less than 3%. Thus, the new data can serve as anchor points to time-of-flight experiments. We report significantly improved neutron capture cross sections at thermal energy ($\sigma_{th}=2.30\pm0.07$ b) as well as for a quasi-Maxwellian spectrum of $kT=25$ keV ($\sigma=30.3\pm1.2$ mb) and for $E_n=481\pm53$ keV ($\sigma= 6.01\pm0.23$ mb). The new experimental cross sections have been used to deduce improved Maxwellian average cross sections in the temperature regime of the common $s$-process scenarios. The astrophysical impact is discussed using stellar models for low-mass AGB stars.
Published: 2016
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2. Zr 92 (n,?) and (n,tot) measurements at the GELINA and n_TOF facilities

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Tagliente, G., Bécares, Vicente, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano Ott, Daniel, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Martínez, T., Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza, E., Praena, J., Riego Pérez, Albert, Lederer, Claudia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Tagliente, G., Bécares, Vicente, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano Ott, Daniel, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Martínez, T., Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza, E., Praena, J., Riego Pérez, Albert, and Lederer, Claudia
Abstract: Stellar nucleosynthesis of elements heavier than iron is driven by neutron capture processes. Zr92 is positioned at a strategic point along the slow nucleosynthesis path, given its proximity to the neutron magic number N=50 and its position at the matching region between the weak and main slow processes. Purpose: In parallel with recent improved astronomical data, the extraction of accurate Maxwellian averaged cross sections (MACSs) derived from a more complete and accurate set of resonance parameters should allow for a better understanding of the stellar conditions at which nucleosynthesis takes place. Methods: Transmission and capture cross section measurements using enriched Zr92 metallic samples were performed at the time-of flight facilities GELINA of JRC-Geel (BE) and n_TOF of CERN (CH). The neutron beam passing through the samples was investigated in transmission measurements at GELINA using a Li-glass scintillator. The ¿ rays emitted during the neutron capture reactions were detected by C6D6 detectors at both GELINA and n_TOF. Results: Resonance parameters of individual resonances up to 81 keV were extracted from a combined resonance shape analysis of experimental transmissions and capture yields. For the majority of the resonances the parity was determined from an analysis of the transmission data obtained with different sample thicknesses. Average resonance parameters were calculated. Conclusions: Maxwellian averaged cross sections were extracted from resonances observed up to 81 keV. The MACS for kT=30keV is fully consistent with experimental data reported in the literature. The MACSs for kT¿15keV are in good agreement with those derived from the ENDF/B-VIII.0 library and recommended in the KADoNiS database. For kT higher than 30 keV differences are observed. A comparison with MACSs obtained with the cross sections recommended in the JEFF-3.3 and JENDL-4.0 libraries shows discrepancies even for kT¿15keV., Peer Reviewed, Article escrit per 116 Autors/autores : Tagliente, G.; Kopecky, S.; Heyse, J.; Krtička, M.; Massimi, C.; Mengoni, A.; Milazzo, P. M.; Plompen, A. J. M.; Schillebeeckx, P.; Valenta, S.; Wynants, R.; Altstadt, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Bécares, V.; Barbagallo, M.; Bečvář, F.; Belloni, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Billowes, J.; Boccone, V.; Bosnar, D.; Brugger, M.; Calviño, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Carrapiço, C.; Cerutti, F.; Chiaveri, E.; Chin, M.; Colonna, N.; Cortés, G.; Cortés-Giraldo, M. A.; Cristallo, S.; Diakaki, M.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dressler, R.; Durán, I.; Eleftheriadis, C.; Ferrari, A.; Fraval, K.; Furman, V.; Göbel, K.; Gómez-Hornillos, M. B.; Ganesan, S.; García, A. R.; Giubrone, G.; Gonçalves, I. F.; González-Romero, E.; Goverdovski, A¸ E. Griesmayer¸C. Guerrero; F. Gunsing; T. Heftrich; A. Hernández-Prieto; E. Jericha; F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, D. Karadimos, T. Katabuchi, V. Ketlerov, V. Khryachkov, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, J. Kroll, C. Lampoudis, C. Langer, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Lederer, H. Leeb, L. S. Leong, R. Losito, M. Lugaro, A. Mallick, A. Manousos, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. Mendoza, F. Mingrone, M. Mirea, C. Paradela, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, A. Riego-Perez, M. Robles, C. Rubbia, J. A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, R. Sarmento, A. Saxena, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, D. Tarrío, L. Tassan-Got, A. Tsinganis, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, M. J. Vermeulen, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou,21 A. Wallner, T. Ware, M. Weigand, C. Weiss, T. Wright, P. Žugec, Postprint (published version)
Published: 2022

3. Zr 92 (n,?) and (n,tot) measurements at the GELINA and n_TOF facilities

Author: Tagliente, G., Bécares, Vicente, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano Ott, Daniel, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Martínez, T., Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza, E., Praena, J., Riego Pérez, Albert, Lederer, Claudia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group
Subjects: Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Stellar nucleosynthesis, Nuclear physics, GELINA, Física nuclear, neutron magic number, Resonance parameters
Abstract: Stellar nucleosynthesis of elements heavier than iron is driven by neutron capture processes. Zr92 is positioned at a strategic point along the slow nucleosynthesis path, given its proximity to the neutron magic number N=50 and its position at the matching region between the weak and main slow processes. Purpose: In parallel with recent improved astronomical data, the extraction of accurate Maxwellian averaged cross sections (MACSs) derived from a more complete and accurate set of resonance parameters should allow for a better understanding of the stellar conditions at which nucleosynthesis takes place. Methods: Transmission and capture cross section measurements using enriched Zr92 metallic samples were performed at the time-of flight facilities GELINA of JRC-Geel (BE) and n_TOF of CERN (CH). The neutron beam passing through the samples was investigated in transmission measurements at GELINA using a Li-glass scintillator. The ¿ rays emitted during the neutron capture reactions were detected by C6D6 detectors at both GELINA and n_TOF. Results: Resonance parameters of individual resonances up to 81 keV were extracted from a combined resonance shape analysis of experimental transmissions and capture yields. For the majority of the resonances the parity was determined from an analysis of the transmission data obtained with different sample thicknesses. Average resonance parameters were calculated. Conclusions: Maxwellian averaged cross sections were extracted from resonances observed up to 81 keV. The MACS for kT=30keV is fully consistent with experimental data reported in the literature. The MACSs for kT¿15keV are in good agreement with those derived from the ENDF/B-VIII.0 library and recommended in the KADoNiS database. For kT higher than 30 keV differences are observed. A comparison with MACSs obtained with the cross sections recommended in the JEFF-3.3 and JENDL-4.0 libraries shows discrepancies even for kT¿15keV. Peer Reviewed Article escrit per 116 Autors/autores : Tagliente, G.; Kopecky, S.; Heyse, J.; Krtička, M.; Massimi, C.; Mengoni, A.; Milazzo, P. M.; Plompen, A. J. M.; Schillebeeckx, P.; Valenta, S.; Wynants, R.; Altstadt, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Bécares, V.; Barbagallo, M.; Bečvář, F.; Belloni, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Billowes, J.; Boccone, V.; Bosnar, D.; Brugger, M.; Calviño, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Carrapiço, C.; Cerutti, F.; Chiaveri, E.; Chin, M.; Colonna, N.; Cortés, G.; Cortés-Giraldo, M. A.; Cristallo, S.; Diakaki, M.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dressler, R.; Durán, I.; Eleftheriadis, C.; Ferrari, A.; Fraval, K.; Furman, V.; Göbel, K.; Gómez-Hornillos, M. B.; Ganesan, S.; García, A. R.; Giubrone, G.; Gonçalves, I. F.; González-Romero, E.; Goverdovski, A¸ E. Griesmayer¸C. Guerrero; F. Gunsing; T. Heftrich; A. Hernández-Prieto; E. Jericha; F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, D. Karadimos, T. Katabuchi, V. Ketlerov, V. Khryachkov, N. Kivel, M. Kokkoris, J. Kroll, C. Lampoudis, C. Langer, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Lederer, H. Leeb, L. S. Leong, R. Losito, M. Lugaro, A. Mallick, A. Manousos, J. Marganiec, T. Martínez, P. Mastinu, M. Mastromarco, E. Mendoza, F. Mingrone, M. Mirea, C. Paradela, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, A. Riego-Perez, M. Robles, C. Rubbia, J. A. Ryan, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, R. Sarmento, A. Saxena, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, P. Sedyshev, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, D. Tarrío, L. Tassan-Got, A. Tsinganis, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, M. J. Vermeulen, D. Vescovi, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou,21 A. Wallner, T. Ware, M. Weigand, C. Weiss, T. Wright, P. Žugec
Published: 2022

4. "Misdoings of the Germans": Behauptungen und Tatsachen

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Published: 2003

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

Author: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2019 : Peking), Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tsinganis, Andrea, Diakaki, Maria, Colonna, Nicola, Kokkoris, Michael, Vlastou, Rosa, Kalamara, Antigoni, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Žugec, Petar, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Patronis, Nikolas, Eleme, Zinovia, Heyse, Jan, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kavrigin, Pavel, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Knapová, Ingrid, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Macina, Daniela, Manna, Alice, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Musumarra, Agatino, Negret, Alexandru, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Saxena, Alok, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vescovi, Diego, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weiß, Christina, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2019 : Peking), Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tsinganis, Andrea, Diakaki, Maria, Colonna, Nicola, Kokkoris, Michael, Vlastou, Rosa, Kalamara, Antigoni, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Žugec, Petar, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Patronis, Nikolas, Eleme, Zinovia, Heyse, Jan, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kavrigin, Pavel, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Knapová, Ingrid, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Macina, Daniela, Manna, Alice, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Musumarra, Agatino, Negret, Alexandru, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Saxena, Alok, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vescovi, Diego, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weiß, Christina, Woods, Philip John, and Wright, Tobias
Abstract: 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 237Np(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.
Published: 2020

6. Measurement of the 70Ge(n,ϒ) cross section up to 300 keV at n TOF, CERN

Author: Lederer, Claudia, Battino, Umberto, Tattersall, Ashley, Dietz, Mirco, and Woods, Philip
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment
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,ϒ) cross section on 70Ge, 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 keVneutron 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 being systematicallysmaller for neutron energies above 150 keV.We have calculated isotopic abundances produced in the s process 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 theclose to solar model shows a good global match to solar system abundances between mass numbers A=60-80.
Published: 2019
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7. Accelerator mass spectrometry measurement of the reaction 35Cl(n,γ)36Cl at keV energies

Author: Pavetich, Stefan, Wallner, Anton, Martschini, Martin, Akhmadaliev, Shavkat, Dillmann, Iris, Fifield, L. Keith, Halfon, Shlomi, Heftrich, Tanja, Käppeler, Franz, Lederer, Claudia, Merchel, Silke, Paul, Michael, Reifarth, Rene, Rugel, Georg, Steier, Peter, Tessler, Moshe, Tims, Stephen, Weigand, Mario, and Weissman, Leo
Abstract: The nuclide 35Cl can act as a minor “neutron poison” in the stellar slow neutron capture process. Neutron activation combined with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was applied to measure the (n,γ) cross section of 35Cl for neutron spectra simulating Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions of kT,∼,30,keV and 40,keV, respectively. The neutron activations were performed at the Karlsruhe Van de Graaff accelerator and at the superconducting linear accelerator of the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility utilizing the 7Li(p,n)7Be reaction. AMS measurements of the irradiated samples were performed at the 3,MV Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, the 6,MV tandem accelerator at the Dresden AMS facility, and the 14,UD tandem accelerator of the Australian National University in Canberra. Our method is independent of previous measurements. For an energy of kT,=,30,keV, we report a Maxwellian averaged cross sections of 8.33(32),mb. Using this new value in stellar isotopic abundance calculations, minor changes for the abundances of 35Cl, 36Cl and 36S are derived.
Published: 2019
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8. Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar $^{54}$Fe($n, \gamma$)$^{55}$Fe cross sections via AMS

Author: Wallner, Anton, Belgya, Tamas, Buczak, Kathrin, Coquard, Laurent, Bichler, Max, Dillmann, Iris, Golser, Robin, Käppeler, Franz, Karakas, Amanda, Kutschera, Walter, Lederer, Claudia, Mengoni, Alberto, Pignatari, Marco, Priller, Alfred, Reifarth, Rene, Steier, Peter, and Szentmiklosi, Laszlo
Subjects: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The detection of long-lived radionuclides through ultra-sensitive single atom counting via accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) offers opportunities for precise measurements of neutron capture cross sections, e.g. for nuclear astrophysics. The technique represents a truly complementary approach, completely independent of previous experimental methods. The potential of this technique is highlighted at the example of the $^{54}$Fe($n, \gamma$)$^{55}$Fe reaction. Following a series of irradiations with neutrons from cold and thermal to keV energies, the produced long-lived $^{55}$Fe nuclei ($t_{1/2}=2.744(9)$ yr) were analyzed at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA). A reproducibility of about 1% could be achieved for the detection of $^{55}$Fe, yielding cross section uncertainties of less than 3%. Thus, the new data can serve as anchor points to time-of-flight experiments. We report significantly improved neutron capture cross sections at thermal energy ($\sigma_{th}=2.30\pm0.07$ b) as well as for a quasi-Maxwellian spectrum of $kT=25$ keV ($\sigma=30.3\pm1.2$ mb) and for $E_n=481\pm53$ keV ($\sigma= 6.01\pm0.23$ mb). The new experimental cross sections have been used to deduce improved Maxwellian average cross sections in the temperature regime of the common $s$-process scenarios. The astrophysical impact is discussed using stellar models for low-mass AGB stars.
Published: 2017
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9. The measurement programme at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN

Author: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Gunsing, Frank, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Castelluccio, Donato Maurizio, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Deo, Kapil, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Frost, Robert J. W., Furman, Valter, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gheorghe, Ioana, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Göbel, Kathrin, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kalamara, Antigoni, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Negret, Alexandru, Oprea, Andreea, Palomo Pinto, Francisco Rogelio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rajeev, K., Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rout, Prakash Chandra, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Suryanarayana, Saraswatula Venkata, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wolf, Clemens, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Gunsing, Frank, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Castelluccio, Donato Maurizio, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Deo, Kapil, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Frost, Robert J. W., Furman, Valter, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gheorghe, Ioana, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Göbel, Kathrin, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kalamara, Antigoni, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Negret, Alexandru, Oprea, Andreea, Palomo Pinto, Francisco Rogelio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rajeev, K., Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rout, Prakash Chandra, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Suryanarayana, Saraswatula Venkata, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wolf, Clemens, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: Neutron-induced reaction cross sections are important for a wide variety of research fields ranging from the study of nuclear level densities, nucleosynthesis to applications of nuclear technology like design, and criticality and safety assessment of existing and future nuclear reactors, radiation dosimetry, medical applications, nuclear waste transmutation, accelerator-driven systems and fuel cycle investigations. Simulations and calculations of nuclear technology applications largely rely on evaluated nuclear data libraries. The evaluations in these libraries are based both on experimental data and theoretical models. CERN’s neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF has produced a considerable amount of experimental data since it has become fully operational with the start of its scientific measurement programme in 2001. While for a long period a single measurement station (EAR1) located at 185 m from the neutron production target was available, the construction of a second beam line at 20 m (EAR2) in 2014 has substantially increased the measurement capabilities of the facility. An outline of the experimental nuclear data activities at n_TOF will be presented.
Published: 2017

10. High accuracy 234U(n,f) cross section in the resonance energy region

Author: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Durán, Ignacio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Audouin, Laurent, Leal, Luiz C., Le Naour, Claire, Noguere, Gilles, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Leong, Lou Sai, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Durán, Ignacio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Audouin, Laurent, Leal, Luiz C., Le Naour, Claire, Noguere, Gilles, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Leong, Lou Sai, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: New results are presented of the 234U neutron-induced fission cross section, obtained with high accuracy in the resonance region by means of two methods using the 235U(n,f) as reference. The recent evaluation of the 235U(n,f) obtained with SAMMY by L. C. Leal et al. (these Proceedings), based on previous n_TOF data [1], has been used to calculate the 234U(n,f) cross section through the 234U/235U ratio, being here compared with the results obtained by using the n_TOF neutron flux.
Published: 2017

11. The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n_TOF (CERN)

Author: Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (Veranstaltung (8. : 2017 : Catania), Colonna, Nicola, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Clai, Giulia, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Cristallo, Sergio, Damone, Lucia Anna, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kalamara, Antigoni, Kavrigin, Pavel, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Kroll, Jiří, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Leeb, Helmut, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Mingrone, Federica, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Musumarra, Agatino, Negret, Alexandru, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Piersanti, Luciano, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weiß, Christina, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (Veranstaltung (8. : 2017 : Catania), Colonna, Nicola, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brown, Adam, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Clai, Giulia, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Cristallo, Sergio, Damone, Lucia Anna, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gilardoni, Simone, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Kalamara, Antigoni, Kavrigin, Pavel, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Kroll, Jiří, Krtička, Milan, Kurtulgil, Cem Deniz, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Leeb, Helmut, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Masi, Alessandro, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mazzone, Annamaria, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Mingrone, Federica, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Musumarra, Agatino, Negret, Alexandru, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Piersanti, Luciano, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Radeck, Désirée, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Sosnin, Nikolay V., Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weiß, Christina, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: An important experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics is being carried out at the n_TOF since several years, in order to address the still open issues in stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis. Several neutron capture reactions relevant to s-process nucleosynthesis have been measured so far, some of which on important branching point radioisotopes. Furthermore, the construction of a second experimental area has recently opened the way to challenging measurements of (n, charged particle) reactions on isotopes of short half-life. The Nuclear Astrophysics program of the n_TOF Collaboration is here described, with emphasis on recent results relevant for stellar nucleosynthesis, stellar neutron sources and primordial nucleosynthesis.
Published: 2017

12. Measurement of the 240Pu(n,f) cross-section at the CERN n_TOF facility: first results from experimental area II (EAR-2)

Author: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tsinganis, Andrea, Colonna, Nicola, Vlastou, Rosa, Kokkoris, Michael, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Heyse, Jan, Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Calviani, Marco, Berthoumieux, Eric, Chiaveri, Enrico, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Belloni, Fabio, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cerutti, Francesco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Deo, Kapil, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Frost, Robert J. W., Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gheorghe, Ioana, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Krtička, Milan, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Palomo Pinto, Francisco Rogelio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Suryanarayana, Saraswatula Venkata, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tsinganis, Andrea, Colonna, Nicola, Vlastou, Rosa, Kokkoris, Michael, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Heyse, Jan, Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Calviani, Marco, Berthoumieux, Eric, Chiaveri, Enrico, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Belloni, Fabio, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cerutti, Francesco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Deo, Kapil, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Frost, Robert J. W., Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gheorghe, Ioana, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Krtička, Milan, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Palomo Pinto, Francisco Rogelio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Porras Sánchez, José Ignacio, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Suryanarayana, Saraswatula Venkata, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, and Wright, Tobias
Abstract: The accurate knowledge of the neutron-induced fission cross-sections of actinides and other isotopes involved in the nuclear fuel cycle is essential for the design of advanced nuclear systems, such as Generation-IV nuclear reactors. Such experimental data can also provide the necessary feedback for the adjustment of nuclear model parameters used in the evaluation process, resulting in the further development of nuclear fission models. In the present work, the 240Pu(n,f) cross-section was measured at CERN's n_TOF facility relative to the well-known 235U(n,f) cross section, over a wide range of neutron energies, from meV to almost MeV, using the time-of-flight technique and a set-up based on Micromegas detectors. This measurement was the first experiment to be performed at n_TOF's new experimental area (EAR-2), which offers a significantly higher neutron flux compared to the already existing experimental area (EAR-1). Preliminary results as well as the experimental procedure, including a description of the facility and the data handling and analysis, are presented.
Published: 2017

13. Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the fissile isotope 235U with the CERN n_TOF total absorption calorimeter and a fission tagging based on micromegas detectors

Author: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Balibrea Correa, Javier, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Krtička, Milan, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Gunsing, Frank, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Karadimos, Dimitri, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiss, Christian, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (2016 : Bruges), Balibrea Correa, Javier, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Krtička, Milan, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Furman, Valter, Göbel, Kathrin, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Gunsing, Frank, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Karadimos, Dimitri, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lerendegui-Marco, Jorge, Licata, Mauro, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiss, Christian, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: The accuracy on neutron capture cross section of fissile isotopes must be improved for the design of future nuclear systems such as Gen-IV reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems. The High Priority Request List of the Nuclear Energy Agency, which lists the most important nuclear data requirements, includes also the neutron capture cross sections of fissile isotopes such as 233,235U and 239,241Pu. A specific experimental setup has been used at the CERN n_TOF facility for the measurement of the neutron capture cross section of 235U by a set of micromegas fission detectors placed inside a segmented BaF2 Total Absorption Calorimeter.
Published: 2017

14. Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar $^{54}$Fe($n, ��$)$^{55}$Fe cross sections via AMS

Author: Wallner, Anton, Belgya, Tamas, Buczak, Kathrin, Coquard, Laurent, Bichler, Max, Dillmann, Iris, Golser, Robin, K��ppeler, Franz, Karakas, Amanda, Kutschera, Walter, Lederer, Claudia, Mengoni, Alberto, Pignatari, Marco, Priller, Alfred, Reifarth, Rene, Steier, Peter, and Szentmiklosi, Laszlo
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract: The detection of long-lived radionuclides through ultra-sensitive single atom counting via accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) offers opportunities for precise measurements of neutron capture cross sections, e.g. for nuclear astrophysics. The technique represents a truly complementary approach, completely independent of previous experimental methods. The potential of this technique is highlighted at the example of the $^{54}$Fe($n, ��$)$^{55}$Fe reaction. Following a series of irradiations with neutrons from cold and thermal to keV energies, the produced long-lived $^{55}$Fe nuclei ($t_{1/2}=2.744(9)$ yr) were analyzed at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA). A reproducibility of about 1% could be achieved for the detection of $^{55}$Fe, yielding cross section uncertainties of less than 3%. Thus, the new data can serve as anchor points to time-of-flight experiments. We report significantly improved neutron capture cross sections at thermal energy ($��_{th}=2.30\pm0.07$ b) as well as for a quasi-Maxwellian spectrum of $kT=25$ keV ($��=30.3\pm1.2$ mb) and for $E_n=481\pm53$ keV ($��= 6.01\pm0.23$ mb). The new experimental cross sections have been used to deduce improved Maxwellian average cross sections in the temperature regime of the common $s$-process scenarios. The astrophysical impact is discussed using stellar models for low-mass AGB stars.
Published: 2016
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15. The $^{59}$Cu(p,$\alpha$) cross section and its implications for nucleosynthesis in core collapse supernovae

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2015

16. The 59Cu(p,α) cross section and its implications for nucleosynthesis in core collapse supernovae

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2015

17. The CERN n_TOF facility: a unique tool for nuclear data measurement

Author: International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics (5. : 2016 : Tokio), Mingrone, Federica, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Castelluccio, Donato Maurizio, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gheorghe, Ioana, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Göbel, Kathrin, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui, Jorge, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rajeev, K., Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rout, Prakash Chandra, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wolf, Clemens, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics (5. : 2016 : Tokio), Mingrone, Federica, Aberle, Oliver, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bacak, Michael, Balibrea Correa, Javier, Barbagallo, Massimo, Barros, Susana C.C., Bečvář, František, Beinrucker, Clemens, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Caamaño, Manuel, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Cardella, Roberto, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Castelluccio, Donato Maurizio, Cerutti, Francesco, Chen, Yonghao, Chiaveri, Enrico, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cosentino, Luigi, Damone, Lucia Anna, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dupont, Emmeric, Durán, Ignacio, Fernández Domínguez, Beatriz, Ferrari, Alfredo, Ferreira, Pedro G., Finocchiaro, Paolo, Furman, Valter, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Gawlik, Aleksandra, Gheorghe, Ioana, Glodariu, Tudor, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Goverdovski, Andrey, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Göbel, Kathrin, Harada, Hideo, Heftrich, Tanja, Heinitz, Stephan, Heyse, Jan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Käppeler, Franz, Kadi, Yacine, Katabuchi, Tatsuya, Kavrigin, Pavel, Ketlerov, Vladimir, Khryachkov, Vitaly, Kimura, Atsushi, Kivel, Nikolay, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lerendegui, Jorge, Lo Meo, Sergio, Lonsdale, Sarah Jane, Losito, Roberto, Macina, Daniela, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Matteucci, Francesca, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Montesano, Simone, Musumarra, Agatino, Nolte, Ralf, Oprea, Andreea, Patronis, Nikolas, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rajeev, K., Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rout, Prakash Chandra, Rubbia, Carlo, Ryan, James A., Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Sedyshev, Pavel V., Smith, Alastair Gavin, Stamatopoulos, Athanasios, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarifeño-Saldivia, Ariel, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Warren, Stephen J., Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wolf, Clemens, Woods, Philip John, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: he study of the resonant structures in neutron-nucleus cross-sections, and therefore of the compound-nucleus reaction mechanism, requires spectroscopic measurements to determine with high accuracy the energy of the neutron interacting with the material under study. To this purpose, the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF has been operating since 2001 at CERN. Its characteristics, such as the high intensity instantaneous neutron flux, the wide energy range from thermal to few GeV, and the very good energy resolution, are perfectly suited to perform high-quality measurements of neutron-induced reaction cross sections. The precise and accurate knowledge of these cross sections plays a fundamental role in nuclear technologies, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear physics. Two different measuring stations are available at the n_TOF facility, called EAR1 and EAR2, with different characteristics of intensity of the neutron flux and energy resolution. These experimental areas, combined with advanced detection systems lead to a great flexibility in performing challenging measurement of high precision and accuracy, and allow the investigation isotopes with very low cross sections, or available only in small quantities, or with very high specific activity. The characteristics and performances of the two experimental areas of the n_TOF facility will be presented, together with the most important measurements performed to date and their physics case. In addition, the significant upcoming measurements will be introduced.
Published: 2016

18. Fission fragment angular distribution measurements of 235U and 238U at CERN n_TOF facility

Author: International Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (4. : 2015 : Aix-en-Provence), Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Durán, Ignacio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Leong, Lou Sai, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Audouin, Laurent, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (4. : 2015 : Aix-en-Provence), Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Durán, Ignacio, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Leong, Lou Sai, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Audouin, Laurent, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod Kishore, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles Manzano, Maria Soledad, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: Neutron-induced fission cross sections of 238U and 235U are used as standards in the fast neutron region up to 200 MeV. A high accuracy of the standards is relevant to experimentally determine other neutron reaction cross sections. Therefore, the detection effciency should be corrected by using the angular distribution of the fission fragments (FFAD), which are barely known above 20 MeV. In addition, the angular distribution of the fragments produced in the fission of highly excited and deformed nuclei is an important observable to investigate the nuclear fission process. In order to measure the FFAD of neutron-induced reactions, a fission detection setup based on parallel-plate avalanche counters (PPACs) has been developed and successfully used at the CERN-n_TOF facility. In this work, we present the preliminary results on the analysis of new 235U(n,f) and 238U(n,f) data in the extended energy range up to 200 MeV compared to the existing experimental data.
Published: 2016

19. The nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in Stars: the key isotope 25Mg

Author: Massimi, Cristian, Koehler, Paul Edward, Kopecky, Stefan, Mingrone, Federica, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Vannini, Gianni, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Ludmila, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Mary, Colonna, Nicola, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel F., González Romero, Enrique, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Alvaro, Jenkins, David G., Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolai, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod K., Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Mastinu, Pier Francesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jaroslaw, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles, Marisol S., Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schmidt, Sebastian, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Tain, Jose Luis, Tarrío, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, and INPC 2013 – International Nuclear Physics Conference
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, ddc:530, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We have measured the radiative neutron-capture cross section and the total neutron-induced cross section of one of the most important isotopes for the s process, the 25Mg. The measurements have been carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facilities n_TOF at CERN (Switzerland) and GELINA installed at the EC-JRC-IRMM (Belgium). The cross sections as a function of neutron energy have been measured up to approximately 300 keV, covering the energy region of interest to the s process. The data analysis is ongoing and preliminary results show the potential relevance for the s process.
Published: 2014

20. Ni-62(n,gamma) and Ni-63(n,gamma) cross sections measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author: Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Berthoumieux, Eric, Colonna, Nicola, Dressler, Rugard, Guerrero, Carlos, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions
Subjects: Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Energia nuclear, Nuclear energy, Física nuclear, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The cross section of the Ni-62(n,gamma) reaction was measured with the time-of-flight technique at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. Capture kernels of 42 resonances were analyzed up to 200 keV neutron energy and Maxwellian averaged cross sections (MACS) from kT = 5-100 keV were calculated. With a total uncertainty of 4.5%, the stellar cross section is in excellent agreement with the the KADoNiS compilation at kT = 30 keV, while being systematically lower up to a factor of 1.6 at higher stellar temperatures. The cross section of the Ni-63(n,gamma) reaction was measured for the first time at n_TOF. We determined unresolved cross sections from 10 to 270 keV with a systematic uncertainty of 17%. These results provide fundamental constraints on s-process production of heavier species, especially the production of Cu in massive stars, which serve as the dominant source of Cu in the solar system.
Published: 2014

21. Neutron capture cross sections of $^{70, 72, 73, 74, 76}$Ge at n_TOF EAR-1, P-381

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2014

22. First measurement of the s-process branching $^{79}$Se(n, $\gamma$)

Author: Domingo-Pardo, César, Guerrero, Carlos, Käppeler, Franz, Lederer, Claudia, Reifarth, Rene, Schumann, Dorothea, and Tain, Jose Luis
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2014

23. Destruction of the cosmic $\gamma$- ray emitter $^{26}$Al by neutron induced reactions

Author: Lederer, Claudia and Woods, Philip John
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2014

24. Neutron capture at the s-process branching points $^{171}$Tm and $^{204}$Tl

Author: Guerrero, Carlos, Domingo-Pardo, Cesar, Schumann, Dorotea, Heinitz, Stephan, Lederer, Claudia, Praena, Javier, Sabate, Marta, and Quesada, Jose Manuel
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2014

25. The high intensity neutron source FRANZ

Author: Lederer, Claudia and Reifarth, René
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The Frankfurt neutron source of Stern Gerlach Zentrum FRANZ is currently under construction at the University of Frankfurt. At FRANZ, a high intensity neutron beam in the keV energy region will be produced by bombarding a $^7$Li target with a proton beam of several mA. These unprecedented high neutron fluxes will allow a number of neutron induced cross section measurements for the first time. Measurements can be performed by the time-of-flight and by the activation technique.
Published: 2014

26. COPD: Einsatz inhalativer Mono- und Kombinationstherapien

Author: Voshaar, Thomas, primary, Idzko, Marco, additional, Münks-Lederer, Claudia, additional, Sandow, Petra, additional, Töpfer, Volker, additional, and Vogelmeier, Claus Franz, additional
Published: 2016
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27. Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility

Author: International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics (15. : 2014 : Dresden), Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Bosnar, Damir, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Pignatari, Marco, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riegov, A., Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics (15. : 2014 : Dresden), Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Bosnar, Damir, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Pignatari, Marco, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riegov, A., Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, and Wright, Tobias
Abstract: The neutron capture cross section of 58Ni was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN, from 27 meV to 400 keV neutron energy. Special care has been taken to identify all the possible sources of background, with the so-called neutron background obtained for the first time using high-precision GEANT4 simulations. The energy range up to 122 keV was treated as the resolved resonance region, where 51 resonances were identified and analyzed by a multilevel R-matrix code SAMMY. Above 122 keV the code SESH was used in analyzing the unresolved resonance region of the capture yield. Maxwellian averaged cross sections were calculated in the temperature range of kT = 5 – 100 keV, and their astrophysical implications were investigated.
Published: 2015

28. Erratum: 62Ni(n,¿) and 63Ni(n,¿ ) cross sections measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. NERG - Grup de Recerca d'Enginyeria Nuclear, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Berthoumieux, Eric, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. NERG - Grup de Recerca d'Enginyeria Nuclear, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Berthoumieux, Eric, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Riego Pérez, Albert
Abstract: Postprint (published version)
Published: 2015

29. Neutron capture cross sections of $^{70,72,73,74,76}$Ge at n_TOF EAR-1

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Subjects: Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Published: 2013

30. Neutron Capture Cross Section of Unstable Ni-63: Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Author: n_TOF Collaboration, Lederer, Claudia, Domingo Pardo, César, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Taín, José Luis, Austrian Science Fund, National Science Foundation (US), and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Massive stars, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, S-process nucleosynthesis
Abstract: The Ni-63(n, gamma) cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total, capture kernels of 12 (new) resonances were determined. Maxwellian averaged cross sections were calculated for thermal energies from kT = 5-100 keV with uncertainties around 20%. Stellar model calculations for a 25M(circle dot) star show that the new data have a significant effect on the s-process production of Cu-63, Ni-64, and Zn-64 in massive stars, allowing stronger constraints on the Cu yields from explosive nucleosynthesis in the subsequent supernova. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.022501, The authors would like to thank H. Danninger and C. Gierl of the Technical University of Vienna for their help preparing the 62Ni sample. This work was partly supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Projects No. P20434 and No. I428. M. P. also acknowledges the support from the Ambizione grant of the Swiss NSF, the NSF Grants No. PHY 02-16783 and No. PHY 09-22648 (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, JINA), EU Grant No. MIRG-CT-2006-046520, and EuroGenesis. T. R. acknowledges support from EuroGenesis, the FP7 ENSAR/THEXO project, and a "Distinguished Guest Scientist Fellowship" from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Published: 2013

31. Neutron capture measurements on 62Ni, 63Ni and 197Au and their relevance for stellar nucleosynthesis

Author: Lederer, Claudia
Subjects: Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Neutron capture reactions in stars are responsible for forming about 99% of the elemental abundances heavier than Fe. Two processes contribute about equally to the overall abundance pattern: the slow neutron capture process (s process) where neutron densities are small and therefore radioactive decay is generally faster than subsequent neutron capture on radionuclides, and the rapid neutron capture process (r process) which takes place in environments of high neutron densities, driving the reaction path towards the neutron rich side. The key nuclear physics input for s process studies are stellar neutron capture cross sections, called MACS (Maxwellian-averaged cross section). In the course of this work, dierent reactions relevant to s process nucleosynthesis have been studied. To improve and check existing information, neutron capture cross sections of most stable Fe and Ni isotopes were measured via the time-of-flight technique at the n TOF facility at CERN. This campaign was triggered by a work of Sneden et al. (Ap. J. 533 (2000) L139-L142), who found that observed abundances in Ultra Metal Poor stars do not agree with calculated values, using existing experimental (n; ) cross sections as input. First results on the cross section of 62Ni(n; ) are presented in this work. Of special interest for studying stellar conditions in s process environments are branching points, i.e. where half lives are long enough so that neutron capture competes with radioactive decay. 63Ni with a half life of 101.1 years represents such a branching and its (n; ) cross section has a crucial influence on the production of Cu. The 63Ni(n; ) reaction, of which no cross section data are available above thermal neutron energies, was measured at n TOF and first results are reported here. For (n; ) reaction measurements, accurate normalization standards play an important role. Two experiments were performed to resolve a discrepancy of the 197Au(n; ) cross section in the lower keV region between the reference cross section used for MACS measurements (Ratynski and K¨appeler, Phys. Rev. C 37 (1988) 595-604) and the ENDF/B-VII.1 evaluation. The 197Au(n; ) cross section, measured at n TOF, has been determined from 5 to 400 keV neutron energy. The results are in agreement with the ENDF/B-VII.1 evaluation. The MACS at kBT = 30 keV is in very good agreement with the MACS calculated from the ENDF evaluation. Within quoted uncertainties it is compatible with the MACS result of Ratynski and K¨appeler which was obtained by the activation technique. We re-measured the neutron spectrum produced by the 7Li(p; n)7Be reaction (that was used for activation measurements) with improved resolution and accuracy at Physikalisch-Technische-Bundesanstalt Braunschweig. The results confirm the spectrum measured by Ratynski and K¨appeler. The 197Au(n; ) cross section averaged over the neutron spectrum obtained in this work agrees with the result using the Ratynski and K¨appeler spectrum, providing increased confidence in the use of this reaction as a standard.
Published: 2012

32. New measurement of the astrophysically important reaction 62Ni(n,gamma) at n_TOF

Author: Lederer, Claudia, Andriamonje, Samuel, Andrzejewski, J, Audouin, Ludmila, Bécares, Vicente, Becvar, Frantisek, Belloni, Francesca, Berthier, B, Berthoumieux, Eric, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, M, Calvino, Francisco, Cano Ott, Daniel, Carrapico, C., Cerutti, Fabio, Chiaveri, E, Chin, M., Colonna, N, Cortes, Guillem, Cortés-Giraldo, M. A., Dillmann, Iris, Domingo-Pardo, César, Duran, I, Fernández-Ordóñez, Manuel, Ferrari, Arnaud, Ganesan, S., Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillo, M. Belén, Goncalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, Gonzalez-Romero, E, Gunsing, Frank, Harrisopulos, Sotirios, Heil, Michael, Ioannides, K G, Jericha, E, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitrios, Krticka, M, Lebbos, Elias, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Lozano, M, Marganiec, J, Marrone, S, Martinez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, P F, Meaze, Moinul Haque, Mendoza, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, P M, Paradela, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jan, Plag, Ralf, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, Jose Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, Rene, Roman, Francisco L., Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raúl, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Tain Enriquez, Jose Luis, Tarrio, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tlustos, Lukas, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, A, Vlachoudis, Vassilis, Vlastou, R, Wallner, Anton, and Weiß, C.
Published: 2011

33. Measurement of the 24,25,26 Mg (n,gamma) reaction cross-section at n_TOF

Author: Massimi, Cristian, Andriamonje, Samuel, Andrzejewski, J, Audouin, Ludmila, Bécares, Vicente, Becvar, Frantisek, Belloni, Fabio, Berthier, B, Berthoumieux, E, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, M, Calvino, Francisco, Cano Ott, Daniel, Carrapico, C., Cerutti, Fabio, Chiaveri, E, Chin, M., Colonna, N, Cortes, Guillem, Cortés-Giraldo, M. A., Dillmann, Iris, Domingo-Pardo, César, Duran, I, Fernández-Ordóñez, Manuel, Ferrari, Arnaud, Fraval, K., Ganesan, S., Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillo, M. Belén, Goncalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, Gonzalez - Romero, E, Gramegna, F, Guerrero, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Harrisopulos, Sotirios, Heil, Michael, Ioannides, K G, Jericha, E, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitrios, Krticka, M, Lebbos, Elias, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Lozano, M, Marganiec, J, Marrone, S, Martinez, Trinitario, Mastinu, P F, Meaze, Moinul Haque, Mendoza, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, P M, Paradela, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jan, Plag, Ralf, Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, Jose Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, Rene, Roman, Francisco L., Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raúl, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Tain Enriquez, Jose Luis, Tarrio, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tlustos, Lukas, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, A, Vlachoudis, Vassilis, Vlastou, R, Wallner, Anton, and Weiß, C.
Published: 2011

34. New measurement of the astrophysically important reaction 62Ni(n,gamma) at n-TOF

Author: Lederer, Claudia, Andriamonje, S., Andrzejewski, Józef, Calviño Tavares, Francisco|||0000-0002-7198-4639, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere|||0000-0002-3648-5826, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group
Subjects: Energies::Energia nuclear [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Neutrons, Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Cross section, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, CERN, Nuclear physics, n_TOF, Física nuclear, Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics, Neutrons Nuclear reaction, Nucleosynthesys
Abstract: The neutron capture cross section of the reaction 62Ni(n,gamma) 63Ni was measured over a wide energy range from 1 eV to 1 MeV at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF installed at CERN. Preliminary results show that due to the unique experimental setup a high energy resolution was achieved and a number of resonances can be resolved also at high energies (tens to hundreds of keV). This measurement will allow a precise determination of the capture cross section and Maxwellian-Averaged Cross Sections (MACS) and be a step forward for understanding nucleosynthesis processes in stars
Published: 2010

35. The nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in stars: the key isotope 25Mg

Author: INPC 2013 – International Nuclear Physics Conference, Massimi, Cristian, Koehler, Paul Edward, Kopecky, Stefan, Mingrone, Federica, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Vannini, Gianni, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Ludmila, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Mary, Colonna, Nicola, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Alvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod K., Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles, Marisol S., Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schmidt, Sebastian, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarríoi Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, INPC 2013 – International Nuclear Physics Conference, Massimi, Cristian, Koehler, Paul Edward, Kopecky, Stefan, Mingrone, Federica, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Vannini, Gianni, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Ludmila, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Mary, Colonna, Nicola, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Alvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Mallick, Amod K., Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Robles, Marisol S., Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schmidt, Sebastian, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarríoi Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: We have measured the radiative neutron-capture cross section and the total neutron-induced cross section of one of the most important isotopes for the s process, the 25Mg. The measurements have been carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facilities n_TOF at CERN (Switzerland) and GELINA installed at the EC-JRC-IRMM (Belgium). The cross sections as a function of neutron energy have been measured up to approximately 300 keV, covering the energy region of interest to the s process. The data analysis is ongoing and preliminary results show the potential relevance for the s process.
Published: 2014

36. The (n,alpha) reaction in the s-process branching point 59Ni

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Weiß, C., Griesmayer, E., Andrzejewski, Józef, Badurek, G., Dressler, Rugard, Koehler, Paul E., Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Weiß, C., Griesmayer, E., Andrzejewski, Józef, Badurek, G., Dressler, Rugard, Koehler, Paul E., Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Riego Pérez, Albert
Abstract: The (n,alpha) reaction in the radioactive 59Ni is of relevance in nuclear astrophysics as 59Ni can be considered as the first branching point in the astrophysical s-process. Its relevance in nuclear technology is especially related to material embrittlement in stainless steel. However, there is a discrepancy between available experimental data and the evaluated nuclear data files for this reaction. At the n TOF facility at CERN, a dedicated system based on sCVD diamond diodes was set up to measure the 59Ni(n,alpha)56Fe cross section. The results of this measurement, with special emphasis on the dominant resonance at 203 eV, are presented here., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2014

37. Neutron capture reactions on Fe and Ni isotopes for the astrophysical s-process

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Domingo Pardo, César, Gunsing, Frank, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Žugec, Petar, Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Domingo Pardo, César, Gunsing, Frank, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Riego Pérez, Albert
Abstract: Neutron capture cross sections in the keV neutron energy region are the key nuclear physics input to study the astrophysical slow neutron capture process. In the past years, a series of neutron capture cross section measurements has been performed at the neutron time-of-flight facility n TOF at CERN focussing on the Fe/Ni mass region. Recent results and future developments in the neutron time-of-flight technique are discussed., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2014

38. Measurements of neutron cross sections for advanced nuclear energy systems at n_TOF (CERN)

Author: International Nuclear Physics Conference (25. : 2013 : Firenze, Italy), Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Durán, Ignacio, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Nuclear Physics Conference (25. : 2013 : Firenze, Italy), Barbagallo, Massimo, Colonna, Nicola, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Durán, Ignacio, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: The n_TOF facility operates at CERN with the aim of addressing the request of high accuracy nuclear data for advanced nuclear energy systems as well as for nuclear astrophysics. Thanks to the features of the neutron beam, important results have been obtained on neutron induced fission and capture cross sections of U, Pu and minor actinides. Recently the construction of another beam line has started; the new line will be complementary to the first one, allowing to further extend the experimental program foreseen for next measurement campaigns.
Published: 2014

39. Neutron cross-sections for advanced nuclear systems: the n_TOF project at CERN

Author: European Energy Conference (3. : 2013 : Budapest), Barbagallo, Massimo, Mastromarco, Mario, Colonna, Nicola, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Durán, Ignacio, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, European Energy Conference (3. : 2013 : Budapest), Barbagallo, Massimo, Mastromarco, Mario, Colonna, Nicola, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Durán, Ignacio, Dressler, Rugard, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Hernández Prieto, Álvaro, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Lampoudis, Christos, Langer, Christoph, Leal Cidoncha, Esther, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Rubbia, Carlo, Sabaté-Gilarte, Marta, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: The study of neutron-induced reactions is of high relevance in a wide variety of fields, ranging from stellar nucleosynthesis and fundamental nuclear physics to applications of nuclear technology. In nuclear energy, high accuracy neutron data are needed for the development of Generation IV fast reactors and accelerator driven systems, these last aimed specifically at nuclear waste incineration, as well as for research on innovative fuel cycles. In this context, a high luminosity Neutron Time Of Flight facility, n_TOF, is operating at CERN since more than a decade, with the aim of providing new, high accuracy and high resolution neutron cross-sections. Thanks to the features of the neutron beam, a rich experimental program relevant to nuclear technology has been carried out so far. The program will be further expanded in the near future, thanks in particular to a new high-flux experimental area, now under construction.
Published: 2014

40. GEANT4 simulation of the neutron background of the C6D6 set-up for capture studies at n_TOF

Author: Žugec, Petar, Colonna, Nicola, Bosnar, Damir, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, Colonna, Nicola, Bosnar, Damir, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Laurent, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Brugger, Markus, Calviani, Marco, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Durán, Ignacio, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Heinitz, Stephan, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, Yacine, Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Krtička, Milan, Kroll, Jiří, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Leong, Lou Sai, Lo Meo, Sergio, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Martínez, Trinitario, Massimi, Cristian, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Mengoni, Alberto, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, Federica, Mirea, Mihail, Mondalaers, Willy, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifarth, René, Riego Pérez, Albert, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Saxena, Alok, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Taı́n Enríquez, José Luis, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, Rosa, Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, and Wright, Tobias
Abstract: The neutron sensitivity of the C6D6 detector setup used at n_TOF facility for capture measurements has been studied by means of detailed GEANT4 simulations. A realistic software replica of the entire n_TOF experimental hall, including the neutron beam line, sample, detector supports and the walls of the experimental area has been implemented in the simulations. The simulations have been analyzed in the same manner as experimental data, in particular by applying the Pulse Height Weighting Technique. The simulations have been validated against a measurement of the neutron background performed with a natC sample, showing an excellent agreement above 1 keV. At lower energies, an additional component in the measured natC yield has been discovered, which prevents the use of natC data for neutron background estimates at neutron energies below a few hundred eV. The origin and time structure of the neutron background have been derived from the simulations. Examples of the neutron background for two different samples are demonstrating the important role of accurate simulations of the neutron background in capture cross-section measurements.
Published: 2014

41. Measurement of the 54,57Fe(n,gamma) cross section in the resolved resonance region at CERN n TOF

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Ludmila, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Becvar, F., Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Audouin, Ludmila, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Becvar, F., Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Riego Pérez, Albert
Abstract: 54Fe and 57 Fe are stable iron isotopes, which play an important role in the nucleosynthesis of the slow neutron capture process (s process). In addition, these nuclei are present in many structural materials, and therefore, the knowledge of their neutron capture cross sections is of importance for reactor design studies. This contribution summarizes the results of the (n, gamma) cross sections of these two isotopes in the resolved resonance region. The experiment was carried out at the CERN n TOF facility using the Pulse-Height Weighting Technique in combination with an experimental set-up optimized for reducing neutron induced backgrounds., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2014

42. Ni-62(n,gamma) and Ni-63(n,gamma) cross sections measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Berthoumieux, Eric, Colonna, Nicola, Dressler, Rugard, Guerrero, Carlos, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Riego Pérez, Albert, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Lederer, Claudia, Massimi, Cristian, Berthoumieux, Eric, Colonna, Nicola, Dressler, Rugard, Guerrero, Carlos, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Riego Pérez, Albert
Abstract: The cross section of the Ni-62(n,gamma) reaction was measured with the time-of-flight technique at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. Capture kernels of 42 resonances were analyzed up to 200 keV neutron energy and Maxwellian averaged cross sections (MACS) from kT = 5-100 keV were calculated. With a total uncertainty of 4.5%, the stellar cross section is in excellent agreement with the the KADoNiS compilation at kT = 30 keV, while being systematically lower up to a factor of 1.6 at higher stellar temperatures. The cross section of the Ni-63(n,gamma) reaction was measured for the first time at n_TOF. We determined unresolved cross sections from 10 to 270 keV with a systematic uncertainty of 17%. These results provide fundamental constraints on s-process production of heavier species, especially the production of Cu in massive stars, which serve as the dominant source of Cu in the solar system., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2014

43. Angular distribution in the neutron-induced fission of actinides

Author: International Workshop on Nuclear Fission and Fission-Product Spectroscopy (5 : 2013 : Caen), Leong, Lou Sai, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Audouin, Laurent, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Durán, Ignacio, Le Naour, Claire, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewsky, Jozef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, E., Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Korschinek, Gunther, Kroll, Jiří, Krtička, Milan, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Massimi, Cristian, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mengon, A., Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, T., Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Pignatari, Marco, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifhart, R., Riego Pérez, Albert, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Taı́n Enríquez, Jose Luis, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, V., Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, Žugec, Petar, International Workshop on Nuclear Fission and Fission-Product Spectroscopy (5 : 2013 : Caen), Leong, Lou Sai, Tassan-Got, Laurent, Tarrío Vilas, Diego, Audouin, Laurent, Paradela Dobarro, Carlos, Durán, Ignacio, Le Naour, Claire, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewsky, Jozef, Barbagallo, Massimo, Bécares, Vicente, Bečvář, František, Belloni, Fabio, Berthoumieux, Eric, Billowes, Jonathan, Boccone, Vittorio, Bosnar, Damir, Brugger, Markus, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Calviani, Marco, Cano-Ott, Daniel, Carrapiço, Carlos, Cerutti, Francesco, Chiaveri, Enrico, Chin, Michael, Colonna, Nicola, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Cortés-Giraldo, Miguel Antonio, Diakaki, Maria, Domingo-Pardo, César, Dressler, Rugard, Dzysiuk, Nataliia, Eleftheriadis, Christos, Ferrari, Alfredo, Fraval, Kevin, Ganesan, Srinivasan, García Ríos, Aczel Regino, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Gonçalves, Isabel Maria Ferro, González Romero, Enrique Miguel, Griesmayer, Erich, Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos, Gunsing, Frank, Gurusamy, Perumal, Jenkins, David, Jericha, Erwin, Kadi, E., Käppeler, Franz, Karadimos, Dimitri, Kivel, Nikolay, Koehler, Paul, Kokkoris, Michael, Korschinek, Gunther, Kroll, Jiří, Krtička, Milan, Langer, Christoph, Lederer, Claudia, Leeb, Helmut, Losito, Roberto, Manousos, Athanasios, Marganiec, Justyna, Massimi, Cristian, Martı́nez, Trinitario, Mastinu, Pierfrancesco, Mastromarco, Mario, Meaze, AKM Moinul Haque, Mengon, A., Mendoza Cembranos, Emilio, Milazzo, Paolo Maria, Mingrone, T., Mirea, Mihail, Mondelaers, Willy, Pavlik, Andreas, Perkowski, Jarosław, Pignatari, Marco, Plompen, Arjan J. M., Praena, Javier, Quesada Molina, José Manuel, Rauscher, Thomas, Reifhart, R., Riego Pérez, Albert, Roman, Faustin Laurenţiu, Rubbia, Carlo, Sarmento, Raul, Schillebeeckx, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Schumann, Dorothea, Taı́n Enríquez, Jose Luis, Tagliente, Giuseppe, Tsinganis, Andrea, Valenta, Stanislav, Vannini, Gianni, Variale, Vincenzo, Vaz, Pedro, Ventura, Alberto, Versaci, Roberto, Vermeulen, Mark J., Vlachoudis, Vasilis, Vlastou, V., Wallner, Anton, Ware, Timothy, Weigand, Mario, Weiß, Christina, Wright, Tobias, and Žugec, Petar
Abstract: Above 1 MeV of incident neutron energy the fission fragment angular distribution (FFAD) has generally a strong anisotropic behavior due to the combination of the incident orbital momentum and the intrinsic spin of the fissioning nucleus. This effect has to be taken into account for the efficiency estimation of devices used for fission cross section measurements. In addition it bears information on the spin deposition mechanism and on the structure of transitional states. We designed and constructed a detection device, based on Parallel Plate Avalanche Counters (PPAC), for measuring the fission fragment angular distributions of several isotopes, in particular 232Th. The measurement has been performed at n_TOF at CERN taking advantage of the very broad energy spectrum of the neutron beam. Fission events were recognized by back to back detection in coincidence in two position-sensitive detectors surrounding the targets. The detection efficiency, depending mostly on the stopping of fission fragments in backings and electrodes, has been computed with a Geant4 simulation and validated by the comparison to the measured case of 235U below 3 keV where the emission is isotropic. In the case of 232Th, the result is in good agreement with previous data below 10 MeV, with a good reproduction of the structures associated to vibrational states and the opening of second chance fission. In the 14 MeV region our data are much more accurate than previous ones which are broadly scattered.
Published: 2013

44. Neutron Capture Cross Section of Unstable Ni-63: Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Author: Austrian Science Fund, National Science Foundation (US), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, n_TOF Collaboration, Lederer, Claudia, Domingo Pardo, César, Giubrone, Giuseppe, Taín, José Luis, Austrian Science Fund, National Science Foundation (US), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, n_TOF Collaboration, Lederer, Claudia, Domingo Pardo, César, Giubrone, Giuseppe, and Taín, José Luis
Abstract: The Ni-63(n, gamma) cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total, capture kernels of 12 (new) resonances were determined. Maxwellian averaged cross sections were calculated for thermal energies from kT = 5-100 keV with uncertainties around 20%. Stellar model calculations for a 25M(circle dot) star show that the new data have a significant effect on the s-process production of Cu-63, Ni-64, and Zn-64 in massive stars, allowing stronger constraints on the Cu yields from explosive nucleosynthesis in the subsequent supernova. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.022501
Published: 2013

45. Experiments with neutron beams for the astrophysical s process

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Andrzejewski, Józef, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, and Gómez Hornillos, María Belén
Abstract: Neutron capture cross sections are the key nuclear physics input to study the slow neutron capture process, which is responsible for forming about half of the elemental abundances above Fe. Stellar neutron capture cross section can be measured by the time-of-flight technique, or by activation. Both techniques will be discussed and recent experiments in the Fe/Ni mass region will be presented., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2013

46. Neutron induced reactions for the s process, and the case of Fe and Ni isotopes

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Andriamonje, S., Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Altstadt, Sebastian, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Andriamonje, S., and Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere
Abstract: Neutron capture cross sections are the key nuclear physics input to understand nucleosynthesis of the slow neutron capture process (s process). At the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN neutron capture cross sections of astrophysical interest are measured over a wide energy range. A measurement campaign to determine the stellar (n, gamma) cross sections of Fe and Ni isotopes is currently being pursued. First results on the stellar cross section of 62Ni(n, gamma) confirm previous experimental results. The cross section of the radioactive s-process branching 63Ni was measured for the first time at stellar energies and is about a factor of 2 higher than theoretical predictions. Future facilities and upgrades will allow to access a number of other radioactive nuclides which are crucial for understanding physical conditions of s-process environments., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2012

47. The role of Fe and Ni for S-process nucleosynthesis and innovative nuclear technologies

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Lederer, Claudia, Brugger, Matthias, Calviani, Marco, Andriamonje, S., Ferrari, Alessio, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GREENER - Grup de recerca d'estudis energètics i de les radiacions, Taín Enríquez, José Luis, Lederer, Claudia, Brugger, Matthias, Calviani, Marco, Andriamonje, S., Ferrari, Alessio, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, and Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere
Abstract: The accurate measurement of neutron capture cross sections of all Fe and Ni isotopes is important for disentangling the contribution of the s-process and the r-process to the stellar nucleosynthesis of elements in the mass range 60 < A < 120. At the same time. Fe and Ni are important components of structural materials and improved neutron cross section data is relevant in the design of new nuclear systems. With the aim of obtaining improved capture data on all stable iron and nickel isotopes, a program of measurements has been launched at the CERN Neutron Time of Flight Facility n_TOF., Postprint (published version)
Published: 2011

48. New measurement of the astrophysically important reaction 62Ni(n,gamma) at n-TOF

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Andriamonje, S., Andrzejewski, Józef, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Gómez Hornillos, María Belén, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Lederer, Claudia, Andriamonje, S., Andrzejewski, Józef, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, and Gómez Hornillos, María Belén
Abstract: The neutron capture cross section of the reaction 62Ni(n,gamma) 63Ni was measured over a wide energy range from 1 eV to 1 MeV at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF installed at CERN. Preliminary results show that due to the unique experimental setup a high energy resolution was achieved and a number of resonances can be resolved also at high energies (tens to hundreds of keV). This measurement will allow a precise determination of the capture cross section and Maxwellian-Averaged Cross Sections (MACS) and be a step forward for understanding nucleosynthesis processes in stars, Postprint (published version)
Published: 2010

49. Neutron-induced reactions for the s-process, and the case of Fe and Ni isotopes

Author: Lederer, Claudia, primary
Published: 2013
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50. New measurement of the astrophysically important reaction 62Ni(n,\gamma ) at n_TOF

Author: Lederer, Claudia, primary, Berthoumieux, Eric, additional, Calviani, Marco, additional, Cano-Ott, Daniel, additional, Colonna, Nicola, additional, Dillmann, Iris, additional, Domingo-Pardo, Cesar, additional, Giubrone, Giuseppe, additional, Guerrero, Carlos, additional, Gunsing, Frank, additional, Heil, Michael, additional, Käppeler, Franz, additional, Leeb, Helmut, additional, Massimi, Cristian, additional, Mengoni, Alberto, additional, Tain, Jose Luis, additional, Vlachoudis, Vasilis, additional, and Wallner, Anton, additional
Published: 2011
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