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

      Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Mendoza, E.; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Eberhardt, Klaus; Junghans, A; Krticka, M.; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      The design and operation of innovative nuclear systems requires a better knowledge of the capture and fission cross sections ...
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      Measurement of the 244Cm and 246Cm neutron-induced capture cross sections at the n_TOF facility 

      Alcayne, V.; Kimura, A.; Mendoza, E.; Cano-Ott, D.; Martínez, T.; Aberle, Oliver; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2019)
      The neutron capture reactions of the 244Cm and 246Cm isotopes open the path for the formation of heavier Cm isotopes and ...
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      Measurement of the 244Cm capture cross sections at both CERN n_TOF experimental areas 

      Alcayne, V.; Mendoza, E.; Cano-Ott, D.; Kimura, A.; Aberle, Oliver; Amaducci, Simone; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      Accurate neutron capture cross section data for minor actinides (MAs) are required to estimate the production and transmutation ...
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      Measurement of the 76 Ge ( n , γ ) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN 

      Gawlik Ramięga, A.; Lederer Woods, Claudia; Krtička, Milan; Valenta, S.; Battino, Umberto; Andrzejewski, J.; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (American Physical Society, 2021)
      The 76 Ge ( n , γ ) reaction has been measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN via the time-of-flight technique. ...
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      Measurement of the angular distribution of fission fragments using a PPAC assembly at CERN n-TOF 

      Tarrío, D.; Leong, L. S.; Audouin, Laurent; Duran, I.; Paradela, C.; Tassan-Got, L.; Le Naour, C.; Bacri, C.O.; Petitbon, V.; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Žugec, P.; Praena Rodríguez, Javier (Elsevier, 2014)
      A fission reaction chamber based on Parallel Plate Avalanche Counters (PPACs) was built for measuring angular distributions ...
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      Measurement of the energy-differential cross-section of the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11B reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN 

      Barbagallo, M.; Aberle, Oliver; Alcayne, V.; Amaducci, Simone; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, Laurent; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      Although the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11B reactions are of interest in several fields of basic and applied Nuclear Physics ...
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      Measurement of the α ratio and (n, γ) cross section of 235U from 0.2 to 200 eV at n_TOF 

      Balibrea Correa, J.; Mendoza, E.; Cano Ott, D.; González, E.; Capote, R.; Krticka, M.; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Praena Rodríguez, Javier; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (American Physical Society, 2020)
      We measured the neutron capture-to-fission cross-section ratio (α ratio) and the capture cross section of 235U between ...
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      Monte Carlo simulations and n-p differential scattering data measured with Proton Recoil Telescopes 

      Terranova, N.; Aberle, Oliver; Alcayne, V.; Amaducci, Simone; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, Laurent; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      The neutron-induced fission cross section of 235U, a standard at thermal energy and between 0.15 MeV and 200 MeV, plays a ...
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      Neutron capture cross section measurement of U 238 at the CERN n-TOF facility in the energy region from 1 eV to 700 keV 

      Mingrone, F.; Massimi, C.; Vannini, Gianni; Colonna, Nicola; Gunsing, Frank; Žugec, P.; Altstadt, Sebastian G.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, Laurent; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio (American Physical Society, 2017)
      The aim of this work is to provide a precise and accurate measurement of the 238U(n,γ ) reaction cross section in the ...
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      Neutron capture cross section measurements of 241Am at the n_TOF facility 

      Oprea, A.; Gunsing, F.; Schillebeeckx, Peter; Aberle, Oliver; Bacak, M.; Berthoumieux, E.; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      Neutron capture on 241Am plays an important role in the nuclear energy production and also provides valuable information ...
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      Neutron Capture on the s-Process Branching Point Tm 171 via Time-of-Flight and Activation 

      Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Paul, Michael C.; Tessler, Moshe; Heinitz, Stephan; Domingo Pardo, César; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Praena Rodríguez, Javier; Rodríguez González, María Teresa; Žugec, P. (American Physical Society, 2020)
      The neutron capture cross sections of several unstable nuclides acting as branching points in the s process are crucial ...
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      New reaction rates for the destruction of 7Be during big bang nucleosynthesis measured at CERN/n_TOF and their implications on the cosmological lithium problem 

      Mengoni, A.; Damone, L.A.; Barbagallo, M.; Aberle, Oliver; Alcayne, V.; Amaducci, Simone; Andrzejewski, J.; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      New measurements of the 7Be(n,α)4He and 7Be(n,p)7Li reaction cross sections from thermal to keV neutron energies have been ...
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      Performance of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN 

      Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Tsinganis, A.; Berthoumieux, E.; Barbagallo, M.; Belloni, F.; Gunsing, F.; Weiß, C.; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Praena Rodríguez, Javier; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (Springer Verlag, 2013)
      The neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF features a white neutron source produced by spallation through 20 GeV/c protons ...
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      Preliminary results on the 233U capture cross section and alpha ratio measured at n_TOF (CERN) with the fission tagging technique 

      Bacak, M.; Aiche, M.; Bélier, G.; Berthoumieux, E.; Diakaki, M.; Dupont, E.; Gunsing, Frank; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2019)
      233U is of key importance among the fissile nuclei in the Th-U fuel cycle. A particularity of 233U is its small neutron ...
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      Preliminary results on the 233U α-ratio measurement at n_TOF 

      Bacak, M.; Aïche, M.; Bélier, G.; Berthoumieux, E.; Diakaki, M.; Dupont, E.; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      233U is the fissile nuclei in the Th-U fuel cycle with a particularily small neutron capture cross setion which is on ...
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      Pulse processing routines for neutron time-of-flight data 

      Žugec, P.; Weiß, C.; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Gunsing, F.; Vlachoudis, V.; Sabate Gilarte, M.; Stamatopoulos, A.; Wright, T.; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Barbagallo, M. (Elsevier, 2016)
      A pulse shape analysis framework is described, which was developed for n_TOF-Phase3, the third phase in the operation of ...
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      Review and new concepts for neutron-capture measurements of astrophysical interest 

      Domingo Pardo, C.; Babiano Suárez, V.; Balibrea Correa, J.; Caballero, L.; Ladarescu, I.; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Rodríguez González, María Teresa; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Moreno Soto, Javier; Žugec, P. (IOP Publishing, 2020)
      The idea of slow-neutron capture nucleosynthesis formulated in 1957 triggered a tremendous experimental effort in different ...
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      Setup for the measurement of the 235U(n, f) cross section relative to n-p scattering up to 1 GeV 

      Manna, A.; Aberle, Oliver; Alcayne, V.; Amaducci, Simone; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, Laurent; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      The neutron induced fission of 235U is extensively used as a reference for neutron fluence measurements in various ...
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      Status and perspectives of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN 

      Chiaveri, Enrico; Aberle, Oliver; Alcayne, V.; Amaducci, Simone; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, Laurent; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Millán Callado, María de los Ángeles; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      Since the start of its operation in 2001, based on an idea of Prof. Carlo Rubbia [1], the neutron time of-flight facility ...
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      Study of photon strength functions of 241Pu and 245Cm from neutron capture measurements 

      Mendoza, E.; Alcayne, V.; Cano-Ott, D.; Kimura, A.; Skarbeli, A. V.; Aberle, Oliver; Chiaveri, Enrico; Cortés Giraldo, Miguel Antonio; Guerrero Sánchez, Carlos; Lerendegui Marco, Jorge; Quesada Molina, José Manuel; Sabaté Gilarte, Marta; Žugec, P. (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      We have measured the γ-rays following neutron capture on 240Pu and 244 Cm at the n_TOF facility at CERN with the Total ...