Praena Rodríguez, JavierFerrer Fernández, Francisco JavierVollenberg, WilSabaté Gilarte, MartaFernández Martínez, BegoñaGarcía López, Francisco JavierPorras, I.Quesada Molina, José ManuelAltstadt, Sebastian G.Andrzejewski, J.Audouin, LaurentCortés Giraldo, Miguel AntonioLerendegui Marco, Jorge2019-06-102019-06-102018-02-15Praena Rodríguez, J., Ferrer, F.J., Vollenberg, W., Sabaté Gilarte, M., Fernández Martínez, B., García López, F.J.,...,Lerendegui Marco, J. (2018). Preparation and characterization of 33-S samples for 33-S(n,alpha)30-Si cross-section measurements at the n_TOF facility at CERN. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 890 (11 May 2018), 142-147.0168-9002https://hdl.handle.net/11441/87286Thin 33S samples for the study of the 33S(n,a)30Si cross-section at the n_TOF facility at CERN were made by thermal evaporation of 33S powder onto a dedicated substrate made of kapton covered with thin layers of copper, chromium and titanium. This method has provided for the first time bare sulfur samples a few centimeters in diameter. The samples have shown an excellent adherence with no mass loss after few years and no sublimation in vacuum at room temperature. The determination of the mass thickness of 33S has been performed by means of Rutherford backscattering spectrometry. The samples have been successfully tested under neutron irradiation.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Neutron induced alpha emissionThermal evaporationRutherford backscatteringinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.055