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Production yields of beta+ emitters for range verification in proton therapy
(EDP Sciences, 2020)
In-vivo Positron Emission Tomography (PET) range verification relies on the comparison of the measured and estimated activity distributions from β+ emitters induced by the proton beam on the most abundant elements in the ...
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First results of the 241Am(n,f) cross section measurement at the Experimental Area 2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN
(EDP Sciences, 2020)
Feasibility, design and sensitivity studies on innovative nuclear reactors that could address the issue of nuclear waste transmutation using fuels enriched in minor actinides, require high accuracy cross section data for ...
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First results of the 230Th(n,f) cross section measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility
(EDP Sciences, 2020)
The study of neutron-induced reactions on actinides is of considerable importance for the design of advanced nuclear systems and alternative fuel cycles. Specifically, 230Th is produced from the α-decay of 234U as a byproduct ...
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Laser-driven neutrons for time-of-flight experiments?
(EDP Sciences, 2020)
Neutron beams, both pulsed and continuous, are a powerful tool in a wide variety of research fields and applications. Nowadays, pulsed neutron beams are produced in conventional accelerator facilities in which the time-of-fight ...
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80Se(n,?) cross-section measurement at CERN n TOF
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2020)
Radiative neutron capture cross section measurements are of fundamental importance for the study of the slow neutron capture (s-) process of nucleosynthesis. This mechanism is responsible for the formation of most elements ...
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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
(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 recently performed at CERN/n_TOF. Based on the new experimental results, astrophysical reaction ...
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Fission program at n_TOF
(EDP Sciences, 2019)
Since its start in 2001 the n_TOF collaboration developed a measurement program on fission, in view of advanced fuels in new generation reactors. A special effort was made on measurement of cross sections of actinides, ...
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The 154Gd neutron capture cross section measured at the n_TOF facility and its astrophysical implications
(EDP Sciences, 2020)
The (n, γ) cross sections of the gadolinium isotopes play an important role in the study of the stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, among the isotopes heavier than Fe, 154Gd together with 152Gd have the peculiarity to ...
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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
(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 the present knowledge of these two cross-sections is far from being accurate and reliable, with both ...
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Review and new concepts for neutron-capture measurements of astrophysical interest
(IOP Publishing, 2020)
The idea of slow-neutron capture nucleosynthesis formulated in 1957 triggered a tremendous experimental effort in different laboratories worldwide to measure the relevant nuclear physics input quantities, namely (n, γ) ...