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Amaducci S, Colonna N, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Finocchiaro P, Krtička M, Massimi C, Mastromarco M, Mazzone A, Maugeri EA, Mengoni A, Roederer IU, Straniero O, Valenta S, Vescovi D, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero-Ontanaya L, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Furman V, Göbel K, Garg R, Gawlik-Ramięga A, Gilardoni S, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Junghans A, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Mastinu P, Mendoza E, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos-Doval D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Thomas T, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement of the ^{140}Ce(n,γ) Cross Section at n_TOF and Its Astrophysical Implications for the Chemical Evolution of the Universe. Phys Rev Lett 2024; 132:122701. [PMID: 38579210 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.122701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
Abstract
^{140}Ce(n,γ) is a key reaction for slow neutron-capture (s-process) nucleosynthesis due to being a bottleneck in the reaction flow. For this reason, it was measured with high accuracy (uncertainty ≈5%) at the n_TOF facility, with an unprecedented combination of a high purity sample and low neutron-sensitivity detectors. The measured Maxwellian averaged cross section is up to 40% higher than previously accepted values. Stellar model calculations indicate a reduction around 20% of the s-process contribution to the Galactic cerium abundance and smaller sizeable differences for most of the heavier elements. No variations are found in the nucleosynthesis from massive stars.
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- S Amaducci
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
| | - M Mastromarco
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Norh Carolina 27695, USA
- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics-Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE), USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
- INFN Sezione Napoli, Napoli, Italy
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of York, United Kingdom
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Italy
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- IGFAE-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IGFAE-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- University of Ioannina, Greece
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Affiliated with an institute or an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-Mura, Japan
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Geel, Belgium
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus North, IKP, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-Mura, Japan
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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- Affiliated with an institute or an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
| | - C Lederer-Woods
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Geel, Belgium
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91406 Orsay Cedex, France
- National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Lederer-Woods C, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Battino U, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik-Ramięga A, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Montesano S, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout PC, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. 74 Ge( n , γ ) cross section below 70 keV measured at n_TOF CERN. Eur Phys J A Hadron Nucl 2022; 58:239. [PMID: 36514540 PMCID: PMC9734248 DOI: 10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00878-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Neutron capture reaction cross sections on 74 Ge are of importance to determine 74 Ge production during the astrophysical slow neutron capture process. We present new resonance data on 74 Ge( n , γ ) reactions below 70 keV neutron energy. We calculate Maxwellian averaged cross sections, combining our data below 70 keV with evaluated cross sections at higher neutron energies. Our stellar cross sections are in agreement with a previous activation measurement performed at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe by Marganiec et al., once their data has been re-normalised to account for an update in the reference cross section used in that experiment.
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Affiliation(s)
- C. Lederer-Woods
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele, Romania
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-Mura, Japan
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Geel, Belgium
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus North, IKP, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-Mura, Japan
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele, Romania
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Arce P, Bolst D, Bordage MC, Brown JMC, Cirrone P, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cutajar D, Cuttone G, Desorgher L, Dondero P, Dotti A, Faddegon B, Fedon C, Guatelli S, Incerti S, Ivanchenko V, Konstantinov D, Kyriakou I, Latyshev G, Le A, Mancini-Terracciano C, Maire M, Mantero A, Novak M, Omachi C, Pandola L, Perales A, Perrot Y, Petringa G, Quesada JM, Ramos-Méndez J, Romano F, Rosenfeld AB, Sarmiento LG, Sakata D, Sasaki T, Sechopoulos I, Simpson EC, Toshito T, Wright DH. Report on G4-Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group. Med Phys 2021; 48:19-56. [PMID: 32392626 PMCID: PMC8054528 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro- and nanodosimetry, imaging, radiation protection, and nuclear medicine. Geant4 is continuously evolving, so it is crucial to have a system that benchmarks this Monte Carlo code for medical physics against reference data and to perform regression testing. AIMS To respond to these needs, we developed G4-Med, a benchmarking and regression testing system of Geant4 for medical physics. MATERIALS AND METHODS G4-Med currently includes 18 tests. They range from the benchmarking of fundamental physics quantities to the testing of Monte Carlo simulation setups typical of medical physics applications. Both electromagnetic and hadronic physics processes and models within the prebuilt Geant4 physics lists are tested. The tests included in G4-Med are executed on the CERN computing infrastructure via the use of the geant-val web application, developed at CERN for Geant4 testing. The physical observables can be compared to reference data for benchmarking and to results of previous Geant4 versions for regression testing purposes. RESULTS This paper describes the tests included in G4-Med and shows the results derived from the benchmarking of Geant4 10.5 against reference data. DISCUSSION Our results indicate that the Geant4 electromagnetic physics constructor G4EmStandardPhysics_option4 gives a good agreement with the reference data for all the tests. The QGSP_BIC_HP physics list provided an overall adequate description of the physics involved in hadron therapy, including proton and carbon ion therapy. New tests should be included in the next stage of the project to extend the benchmarking to other physical quantities and application scenarios of interest for medical physics. CONCLUSION The results presented and discussed in this paper will aid users in tailoring physics lists to their particular application.
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- CRCT (INSERM and Paul Sabatier University), Toulouse, France
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- Department of Radiation Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Institute of Radiation Physics (IRA), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, USA
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- University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR5797, Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, Gradignan, France
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- Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - IHEP, Protvino, Russian Federation
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- Medical Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - IHEP, Protvino, Russian Federation
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Nagoya Proton Therapy Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- Medical Physics Department of Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- INFN Catania Section, Catania, Italy
- Medical Physics Department, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Nagoya Proton Therapy Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, USA
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Bertolet A, Grilj V, Guardiola C, Harken AD, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Baratto-Roldán A, Carabe A. Experimental validation of an analytical microdosimetric model based on Geant4-DNA simulations by using a silicon-based microdosimeter. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2020; 176:109060. [PMID: 33100611 PMCID: PMC7583143 DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2020.109060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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PURPOSE To study the agreement between proton microdosimetric distributions measured with a silicon-based cylindrical microdosimeter and a previously published analytical microdosimetric model based on Geant4-DNA in-water Monte Carlo simulations for low energy proton beams. METHODS AND MATERIAL Distributions for lineal energy (y) are measured for four proton monoenergetic beams with nominal energies from 2.0 MeV to 4.5 MeV, with a tissue equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) and a silicon-based microdosimeter. The actual energy for protons traversing the silicon-based microdosimeter is simulated with SRIM. Monoenergetic beams with these energies are simulated with Geant4-DNA code by simulating a water cylinder site of dimensions equal to those of the microdosimeter. The microdosimeter response is calibrated by using the distribution peaks obtained from the TEPC. Analytical calculations fory ¯ F andy ¯ D using our methodology based on spherical sites are also performed choosing the equivalent sphere to be checked against experimental results. RESULTS Distributions for y at silicon are converted into tissue equivalent and compared to the Geant4-DNA simulated, yielding maximum deviations of 1.03% fory ¯ F and 1.17% fory ¯ D . Our analytical method generates maximum deviations of 1.29% and 3.33%, respectively, with respect to experimental results. CONCLUSION Simulations in Geant4-DNA with ideal cylindrical sites in liquid water produce similar results to the measurements in an actual silicon-based cylindrical microdosimeter properly calibrated. The found agreement suggests the possibility to experimentally verify the calculated clinicaly ¯ D with our analytical method.
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- A Bertolet
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Radiological Research Accelerator Facility, Columbia University, Irvington, NY, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France; Université de Paris, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay France
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- Radiological Research Accelerator Facility, Columbia University, Irvington, NY, USA
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Guerrero C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Paul M, Tessler M, Heinitz S, Domingo-Pardo C, Cristallo S, Dressler R, Halfon S, Kivel N, Köster U, Maugeri EA, Palchan-Hazan T, Quesada JM, Rochman D, Schumann D, Weissman L, Aberle O, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barak A, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berkovits D, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Buzaglo Y, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Dafna H, Damone A, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Dupont E, Durán I, Eisen Y, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heyse J, Hirsh T, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kaizer B, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kijel D, Kimura A, Kokkoris M, Kriesel A, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer-Woods C, Leeb H, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Manna A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Montesano S, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piersanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rodríguez-González T, Rout PC, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Shor A, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Neutron Capture on the s-Process Branching Point ^{171}Tm via Time-of-Flight and Activation. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:142701. [PMID: 33064503 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.142701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The neutron capture cross sections of several unstable nuclides acting as branching points in the s process are crucial for stellar nucleosynthesis studies. The unstable ^{171}Tm (t_{1/2}=1.92 yr) is part of the branching around mass A∼170 but its neutron capture cross section as a function of the neutron energy is not known to date. In this work, following the production for the first time of more than 5 mg of ^{171}Tm at the high-flux reactor Institut Laue-Langevin in France, a sample was produced at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Two complementary experiments were carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) at CERN in Switzerland and at the SARAF liquid lithium target facility at Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Israel by time of flight and activation, respectively. The result of the time-of-flight experiment consists of the first ever set of resonance parameters and the corresponding average resonance parameters, allowing us to make an estimation of the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) by extrapolation. The activation measurement provides a direct and more precise measurement of the MACS at 30 keV: 384(40) mb, with which the estimation from the n_TOF data agree at the limit of 1 standard deviation. This value is 2.6 times lower than the JEFF-3.3 and ENDF/B-VIII evaluations, 25% lower than that of the Bao et al. compilation, and 1.6 times larger than the value recommended in the KADoNiS (v1) database, based on the only previous experiment. Our result affects the nucleosynthesis at the A∼170 branching, namely, the ^{171}Yb abundance increases in the material lost by asymptotic giant branch stars, providing a better match to the available pre-solar SiC grain measurements compared to the calculations based on the current JEFF-3.3 model-based evaluation.
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- C Guerrero
- Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) (Universidad de Sevilla-Junta de Andalucía-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy
- INFN Sezione Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Conpostela, Spain
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Conpostela, Spain
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Jerusalem, Romania
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
- CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), Obninsk, Russia
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Conpostela, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Legnaro, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Jerusalem, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Jerusalem, Romania
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- University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy
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- University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) (Universidad de Sevilla-Junta de Andalucía-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center (SNRC), Yavne, Israel
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex, France
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
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- Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Goethe University Frankfurt, Seville, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Manna A, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano VS, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calvi F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Coséntino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Goncalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtiička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada J, Ramos D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith A, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeno-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. Setup for the measurement of the 235U(n, f) cross section relative to n-p scattering up to 1 GeV. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The neutron induced fission of 235U is extensively used as a reference for neutron fluence measurements in various applications, ranging from the investigation of the biological effectiveness of high energy neutrons, to the measurement of high energy neutron cross sections of relevance for accelerator driven nuclear systems. Despite its widespread use, no data exist on neutron induced fission of 235U above 200 MeV. The neutron facility n_TOF offers the possibility to improve the situation. The measurement of 235U(n,f) relative to the differential n-p scattering cross-section, was carried out in September 2018 with the aim of providing accurate and precise cross section data in the energy range from 10 MeV up to 1 GeV. In such measurements, Recoil Proton Telescopes (RPTs) are used to measure the neutron flux while the fission events are detected and counted with dedicated detectors. In this paper the measurement campaign and the experimental set-up are illustrated.
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Terranova N, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Doval DR, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. Monte Carlo simulations and n-p differential scattering data measured with Proton Recoil Telescopes. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The neutron-induced fission cross section of 235U, a standard at thermal energy and between 0.15 MeV and 200 MeV, plays a crucial role in nuclear technology applications. The long-standing need of improving cross section data above 20 MeV and the lack of experimental data above 200 MeV motivated a new experimental campaign at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The measurement has been performed in 2018 at the experimental area 1 (EAR1), located at 185 m from the neutron-producing target (the experiment is presented by A. Manna et al. in a contribution to this conference). The 235U(n,f) cross section from 20 MeV up to about 1 GeV has been measured relative to the 1H(n,n)1H reaction, which is considered the primary reference in this energy region. The neutron flux impinging on the 235U sample (a key quantity for determining the fission events) has been obtained by detecting recoil protons originating from n-p scattering in a C2H4 sample. Two Proton Recoil Telescopes (PRT), consisting of several layers of solid-state detectors and fast plastic scintillators, have been located at proton scattering angles of 25.07° and 20.32°, out of the neutron beam. The PRTs exploit the ΔE-E technique for particle identification, a basic requirement for the rejection of charged particles from neutron-induced reactions in carbon. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations were performed to characterize proton transport through the different slabs of silicon and scintillation detectors, to optimize the experimental set-up and to deduce the efficiency of the whole PRT detector. In this work we compare measured data collected with the PRTs with a full Monte Carlo simulation based on the Geant-4 toolkit.
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Bertolet A, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Carabe-Fernandeza A. An Analytical Microdosimetric Model for Radioimmunotherapeutic Alpha Emitters. Radiat Res 2020; 194:403-410. [DOI: 10.1667/rade-20-00045.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- A. Bertolet
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Bertolet A, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Carabe-Fernandez A. On the concepts of dose-mean lineal energy, unrestricted and restricted dose-averaged LET in proton therapy. Phys Med Biol 2020; 65:075011. [PMID: 32023557 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab730a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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To calculate 3D distributions of microdosimetric-based restricted dose-averaged LET (LETd) and dose-mean lineal energy ([Formula: see text]) in order to explore their similarities and differences between each other and with the traditional unrestricted LETd. Additionally, a new expression for optimum restricted LETd calculation is derived, allowing for disregarding straggling-associated functions in the classical microdosimetric theory. Restricted LETd and [Formula: see text] for polyenergetic beams can be obtained by integrating previously developed energy-dependent microdosimetric functions over the energetic spectrum of these beams. This calculation is extended to the entire calculation volume using an algorithm to determine spectral fluence. Equivalently, unrestricted LETd can be obtained integrating the stopping power curve on the spectrum. A new expression to calculate restricted LETd is also derived. Results for traditional and new formulas are compared for a clinical 100 MeV proton beam. Distributions of unrestricted LETd, restricted LETd and [Formula: see text] are analyzed for a prostate case, for microscopic spherical sites of 1 µm and 10 µm in diameter. Traditional and new expressions for restricted LETd remarkably agree, being the mean differences 0.05 ± 0.04 keV µm-1 for the 1 µm site and 0.05 ± 0.02 keV µm-1 for the 10 µm site. In the prostate case, the ratio between the maximum and the central value for central axis (CAX) profiles is around 2 for all the quantities, being the highest for restricted LETd for 1 µm (2.17) and the lowest for [Formula: see text] for 1 µm (1.78). Unrestricted LETd, restricted LETd and [Formula: see text] can be analytically computed and compared for clinical plans. Two important consequences of the calculation of [Formula: see text] are: (1) its distribution can be verified by directly measuring it in clinical beams; and (2), optimization of proton treatments based on these quantities is enabled as well as future developments of RBE models based on them.
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- A Bertolet
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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Bertolet A, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Souris K, Carabe A. A kernel-based algorithm for the spectral fluence of clinical proton beams to calculate dose-averaged LET and other dosimetric quantities of interest. Med Phys 2020; 47:2495-2505. [PMID: 32124463 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To introduce a new analytical methodology to calculate quantities of interest in particle radiotherapy inside the treatment planning system. Models are proposed to calculate dose-averaged LET (LETd) in proton radiotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS A kernel-based approach for the spectral fluence of particles is developed by means of analytical functions depending on depth and lateral position. These functions are obtained by fitting them to data calculated with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations using Geant4 in liquid water for energies from 50 to 250 MeV. Contributions of primary, secondary protons and alpha particles are modeled separately. Lateral profiles and spectra are modeled as Gaussian functions to be convolved with the fluence coming from the nozzle. LETd is obtained by integrating the stopping power curves from the PSTAR and ASTAR databases weighted by the spectrum at each position. The fast MC code MCsquare is employed to benchmark the results. RESULTS Considering the nine energies simulated, fits for the functions modeling the fluence in-depth provide an average R 2 equal to 0.998, 0.995 and 0.986 for each one of the particles considered. Fits for the Gaussian lateral functions yield average R 2 of 0.997, 0.982 and 0.993, respectively. Similarly, the Gaussian functions fitted to the computed spectra lead to average R 2 of 0.995, 0.938 and 0.902. LETd calculation in water shows mean differences of -0.007 ± 0.008 keV/μm with respect to MCsquare if only protons are considered and 0.022 ± 0.007 keV/μm including alpha particles. In a prostate case, mean difference for all voxels with dose >5% of prescribed dose is 0.28 ± 0.23 keV/μm. CONCLUSION This new spectral fluence-based methodology allows for simultaneous calculations of quantities of interest in proton radiotherapy such as dose, LETd or microdosimetric quantities. The method also enables the inclusion of more particles by following an analogous process.
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- A Bertolet
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Center for Molecular Imaging and Experimental Radiotherapy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Massimi C, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Clai G, Colonna N, Console Camprini P, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Guglielmelli A, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Masi A, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mucciola R, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rocchi F, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weiss C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement and analysis of 155,157Gd(n, γ) from thermal energy to 1 keV. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have measured the capture cross section of the 155Gd and 157Gd isotopes between 0.025 eV and 1 keV. The capture events were recorded by an array of 4 C6D6 detectors, and the capture yield was deduced exploiting the total energy detection system in combination with the Pulse Height Weighting Techniques. Because of the large cross section around thermal neutron energy, 4 metallic samples of different thickness were used to prevent problems related to self-shielding. The samples were isotopically enriched, with a cross contamination of the other isotope of less than 1.14%. The capture yield was analyzed with an R-Matrix code to describe the cross section in terms of resonance parameters. Near thermal energies, the results are significantly different from evaluations and from previous time-of-flight experiments. The data from the present measurement at n_TOF are publicly available in the experimental nuclear reaction database EXFOR.
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Barbagallo M, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté- Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. 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. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Although the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11B reactions are of interest in several fields of basic and applied Nuclear Physics the present knowledge of these two cross-sections is far from being accurate and reliable, with both evaluations and data showing sizable discrepancies. As part of the challenging n_TOF program on (n,cp) nuclear reactions study, the energy differential cross-sections of the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11 B reactions have been measured at CERN from the reaction thresholds up to 30 MeV neutron energy. Both measurements have been recently performed at the long flight-path (185 m) experimental area of the n_TOF facility at CERN using a pure (99.95%) rigid graphite target and two silicon telescopes. In this paper an overview of the experiment is presented together with a few preliminary results.
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Bacak M, Aïche M, Bélier G, Berthoumieux E, Diakaki M, Dupont E, Gunsing F, Heyse J, Kopecky S, Krtička M, Laurent B, Leeb H, Mathieu L, Schillebeeckx P, Serot O, Taieb J, Valenta S, Vlachoudis V, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Harada H, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weiss C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Preliminary results on the 233U α-ratio measurement at n_TOF. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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233U is the fissile nuclei in the Th-U fuel cycle with a particularily small neutron capture cross setion which is on average about one order of magnitude lower than its fission cross section. Hence, the measurement of the 233U(n, γ) cross section relies on a method to accurately distinguish between capture and fission γ-rays. A measurement of the 233U α-ratio has been performed at the n_TOF facility at CERN using a so-called fission tagging setup, coupling n_TOF 's Total Absorption Calorimeter with a novel fission chamber to tag the fission γ-rays. The experimental setup is described and essential parts of the analysis are discussed. Finally, a preliminary 233U α-ratio is presented.
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Oprea A, Gunsing F, Schillebeeckx P, Aberle O, Bacak M, Berthoumieux E, Cano-Ott D, Diakaki M, Dupont E, Geslot B, Glodariu T, Heyse J, Mendoza E, Negret A, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Babiano-Suarez V, Barbagallo M, Becčvář F, Bellia G, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero-Ontanaya L, Calviño F, Calviani M, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Durán I, Eleme Z, Femández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Goncalves IF, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Harada H, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Persanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Ramos-Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schumann D, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Talip T, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Neutron capture cross section measurements of 241Am at the n_TOF facility. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Neutron capture on 241Am plays an important role in the nuclear energy production and also provides valuable information for the improvement of nuclear models and the statistical interpretation of the nuclear properties. A new experiment to measure the 241Am(n, γ) cross section in the thermal region and the first few resonances below 10 eV has been carried out at EAR2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN. Three neutron-insensitive C6D6 detectors have been used to measure the neutron-capture gamma cascade as a function of the neutron time of flight, and then deduce the neutron capture yield. Preliminary results will be presented and compared with previously obtained results at the same facility in EAR1. In EAR1 the gamma-ray background at thermal energies was about 90% of the signal while in EAR2 is up to a 25 factor much more favorable signal to noise ratio. We also extended the low energy limit down to subthermal energies. This measurement will allow a comparison with neutron capture measurements conducted at reactors and using a different experimental technique.
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Stamatopoulos A, Tsinganis A, Diakaki M, Colonna N, Kokkoris M, Vlastou R, Kalamara A, Schillebeeckx P, Tassan-Got L, Žugec P, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Patronis N, Eleme Z, Heyse J, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán, Femandez-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu† T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Knapova I, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Saxena A, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Wallner A, Warren S, Weiss C, Woods PJ, Wright T. Study of the neutron-induced fission cross section of 237Np at CERN's n_TOF facility over a wide energy range. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023905006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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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.
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Mendoza E, Alcayne V, Cano-Ott D, Kimura A, Skarbeli AV, Aberle O, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Bellia G, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piersanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Doval DR, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Talip Z, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. Study of photon strength functions of 241Pu and 245Cm from neutron capture measurements. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have measured theγ-rays following neutron capture on240Pu and244Cm at the n_TOF facility at CERN with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) and with C6D6 organic scintillators. The TAC is made of 40 BaF2 crystals operating in coincidence and covering almost the entire solid angle. This allows to obtain information concerning the energy spectra and the multiplicity of the measured captureγ-ray cascades. Additional information is also obtained from the C6D6 detectors. We have analyzed the measured data in order to draw conclusions about the Photon Strength Functions (PSFs) of241Pu and245Cm below their neutron separation energies. The analysis has been performed by fitting the PSFs to the experimental results, using the differential evolution method, in order to find neutron capture cascades capable of reproducing at the same time a great variety of deposited energy spectra.
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Michalopoulou V, Stamatopoulos A, Vlastou R, Kokkoris M, Tsinganis A, Diakaki M, Eleme Z, Patronis N, Heyse J, Schillebeeckx P, Tassan-Got L, Barbagallo M, Colonna N, Urlass S, Macina D, Chiaveri E, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Femández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kopatch Y, Krtiička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. First results of the 230Th(n,f) cross section measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023905004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The study of neutron-induced reactions on actinides is of considerable importance for the design of advanced nuclear systems and alternative fuel cycles. Specifically, 230Th is produced from the α-decay of 234U as a byproduct of the 232Th/233U fuel cycle, thus the accurate knowledge of its fission cross section is strongly required. However, few experimental datasets exist in literature with large deviations among them, covering the energy range between 0.2 to 25 MeV. In addition, the study of the 230Th(n,f) cross-section is of great interest in the research on the fission process related to the structure of the fission barriers. Previous measurements have revealed a large resonance at En=715 keV and additional fine structures, but with high discrepancies among the cross-section values of these measurements. This contribution presents preliminary results of the 230Th(n,f) cross-section measurements at the CERN n_TOF facility. The high purity targets of the natural, but very rare isotope 230Th, were produced at JRC-Geel in Belgium. The measurements were performed at both experimental areas (EAR-1 and EAR-2) of the n_TOF facility, covering a very broad energy range from thermal up to at least 100 MeV. The experimental setup was based on Micromegas detectors with the 235U(n,f) and 238U(n,f) reaction cross-sections used as reference.
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Mastromarco M, Mazzone A, Massimi C, Cristallo S, Colonna N, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Mastinu PF, Maugeri E, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Doval DR, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. The 154Gd neutron capture cross section measured at the n_TOF facility and its astrophysical implications. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023907003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The (n, γ) cross sections of the gadolinium isotopes play an important role in the study of the stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, among the isotopes heavier than Fe, 154Gd together with 152Gd have the peculiarity to be mainly produced by the slow capture process, the so-called s-process, since they are shielded against the β-decay chains from the r-process region by their stable samarium isobars. Such a quasi pure s-process origin makes them crucial for testing the robustness of stellar models in galactic chemical evolution (GCE). According to recent models, the 154Gd and 152Gd abundances are expected to be 15-20% lower than the reference un-branched s-process 150Sm isotope. The close correlation between stellar abundances and neutron capture cross sections prompted for an accurate measurement of 154Gd cross section in order to reduce the uncertainty attributable to nuclear physics input and eventually rule out one of the possible causes of present discrepancies between observation and model predictions. To this end, the neutron capture cross section of 154Gd was measured in a wide neutron energy range (from thermal up to some keV) with high resolution in the first experimental area of the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF (EAR1) at CERN. In this contribution, after a brief description of the motivation and of the experimental setup used in the measurement, the preliminary results of the 154Gd neutron capture reaction as well as their astrophysical implications are presented.
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Lerendegui-Marco J, Guerrero C, Mendoza E, Quesada JM, Eberhardt K, Junghans A, Krtiička M, Belgya T, Maróti B, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kimura A, Kivel N, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Montesano S, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras JI, Praena J, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout PC, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement of the 242Pu(n, γ) cross section from thermal to 500 keV at the Budapest research reactor and CERN n_TOF-EAR1 facilities. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The design and operation of innovative nuclear systems requires a better knowledge of the capture and fission cross sections of the Pu isotopes. For the case of capture on 242Pu, a reduction of the uncertainty in the fast region down to 8-12% is required. Moreover, aiming at improving the evaluation of the fast energy range in terms of average parameters, the OECD NEA High Priority Request List (HPRL) requests high-resolution capture measurements with improved accuracy below 2 keV. The current uncertainties also affect the thermal point, where previous experiments deviate from each other by 20%. A fruitful collaboration betwen JGU Mainz and HZ Dresden-Rossendorf within the EC CHANDA project resulted in a 242Pu sample consisting of a stack of seven fission-like targets making a total of 95(4) mg of 242Pu electrodeposited on thin (11.5 μm) aluminum backings. This contribution presents the results of a set of measurements of the 242Pu(n, γ) cross section from thermal to 500 keV combining different neutron beams and techniques. The thermal point was determined at the Budapest Research Reactor by means of Neutron Activation Analysis and Prompt Gamma Analysis, and the resolved (1 eV - 4 keV) and unresolved (1 - 500 keV) resonance regions were measured using a set of four Total Energy detectors at the CERN n_TOF-EAR1.
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Alcayne V, Mendoza E, Cano-Ott D, Kimura A, Aberle O, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Bellia G, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piersanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Ramos Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Talip Z, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Tassan-Got L, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. Measurement of the 244Cm capture cross sections at both CERN n_TOF experimental areas. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Accurate neutron capture cross section data for minor actinides (MAs) are required to estimate the production and transmutation rates of MAs in light water reactors with a high burnup, critical fast reactors like Gen-IV systems and other innovative reactor systems such as accelerator driven systems (ADS). Capture reactions of244Cm open the path for the formation of heavier Cm isotopes and of heavier elements such as Bk and Cf. In addition,244Cm shares nearly 50% of the total actinide decay heat in irradiated reactor fuels with a high burnup, even after three years of cooling.Experimental data for this isotope are very scarce due to the difficulties of providing isotopically enriched samples and because the high intrinsic activity of the samples requires the use of neutron facilities with high instantaneous flux. The only two previous experimental data sets for this neutron capture cross section have been obtained in 1969 using a nuclear explosion and, more recently, at J-PARC in 2010. The neutron capture cross sections have been measured at n_TOF with the same samples that the previous experiments in J-PARC. The samples were measured at n_TOF Experimental Area 2 (EAR-2) with three C6D6detectors and also in Experimental Area 1 (EAR-1) with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC). Preliminary results assessing the quality and limitations of these new experimental datasets are presented for the experiments in both areas. Preliminary yields of both measurements will be compared with evaluated libraries for the first time.
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Eleme Z, Patronis N, Stamatopoulos A, Tsinganis A, Kokkoris M, Michalopoulou V, Diakaki M, Vlastou R, Tassan-Got L, Colonna N, Heyse J, Barbagallo M, Mastromarco M, Macina D, Chiaveri E, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kopatch Y, Krticˇka M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. First results of the 241Am(n,f) cross section measurement at the Experimental Area 2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN. EPJ Web Conf 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023905014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Feasibility, design and sensitivity studies on innovative nuclear reactors that could address the issue of nuclear waste transmutation using fuels enriched in minor actinides, require high accuracy cross section data for a variety of neutron-induced reactions from thermal energies to several tens of MeV. The isotope 241Am (T1/2= 433 years) is present in high-level nuclear waste (HLW), representing about 1.8 % of the actinide mass in spent PWR UOx fuel. Its importance increases with cooling time due to additional production from the β-decay of 241Pu with a half-life of 14.3 years. The production rate of 241 Am in conventional reactors, including its further accumulation through the decay of 241Pu and its destruction through transmutation/incineration are very important parameters for the design of any recycling solution. In the present work, the 241 Am(n,f) reaction cross-section was measured using Micromegas detectors at the Experimental Area 2 of the n_TOF facility at CERN. For the measurement, the 235U(n,f) and 238U(n,f) reference reactions were used for the determination of the neutron flux. In the present work an overview of the experimental setup and the adopted data analysis techniques is given along with preliminary results.
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Bacak M, Aiche M, Bélier G, Berthoumieux E, Diakaki M, Dupont E, Gunsing F, Heyse J, Kopecky S, Laurent B, Leeb H, Mathieu L, Schillebeeckx P, Serot O, Taieb J, Vlachoudis V, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Damone LA, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Harada H, Heinitz S, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weiss C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Preliminary results on the 233U capture cross section and alpha ratio measured at n_TOF (CERN) with the fission tagging technique. EPJ Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921103007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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233U is of key importance among the fissile nuclei in the Th-U fuel cycle. A particularity of 233U is its small neutron capture cross-section, which is on average about one order of magnitude lower than the fission cross-section. The accuracy in the measurement of the 233U capture cross-section depends crucially on an efficient capture-fission discrimination, thus a combined set-up of fission and γ-detectors is needed. A measurement of the 233U capture cross-section and capture-to-fission ratio was performed at the CERN n_TOF facility. The Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) of n_TOF was employed as γ-detector coupled with a novel compact ionization chamber as fission detector. A brief description of the experimental set-up will be given, and essential parts of the analysis procedure as well as the preliminary response of the set-up to capture are presented and discussed.
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Tassan-Got L, Colonna N, Diakaki M, Eleme Z, Manna A, Sekhar A, Stamatopoulos A, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Amaducci S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bennett S, Berthoumieux E, Bosnar D, Brown AS, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero L, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Cortés GP, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domíngez B, Ferrari A, Ferro-Gonçalves I, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Garg R, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Göbel K, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jiri U, Junghans A, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Kimura A, Knapová I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krticˇka M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Millán-Callado MA, Mingrone F, Moreno-Soto J, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Petrone C, Piersanti L, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos Doval D, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Smith AG, Sosnin N, Sprung P, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia AE, Thomas B, Torres-Sánchez P, Tsinganis A, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright TJ, Žugec P. Fission program at n_TOF. EPJ Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921103006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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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, exploiting the peculiarity of the n_TOF neutron beam which spans a huge energy domain, from the thermal region up to GeV. Moreover fission fragment angular distributions have also been measured. An overview of the cross section results achieved with different detectors is presented, including a discussion of the 237Np case where discrepancies showed up between different detector systems. The results on the anisotropy of the fission fragments and its implication on the mechanism of neutron absorption, and in applications, are also shown.
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Moreno-Soto J, Berthoumieux E, Dupont E, Gunsing F, Serot O, Litaize O, Diakaki M, Chebboubi A, Dridi W, Valenta S, Krtiˇcka M, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Babiano-Suarez V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Benedikt T, Bennett S, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero-Ontanaya L, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Davies PJ, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Ducasse Q, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Junghans A, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kimura A, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Persanti L, Petrone C, Pirovano E, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Ramos-Doval D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sekhar A, Simone S, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Sprung P, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Study of the photon strength functions and level density in the gamma decay of the n + 234U reaction. EPJ Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921102002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The accurate calculations of neutron-induced reaction cross sections are relevant for many nuclear applications. The photon strength functions and nuclear level densities are essential inputs for such calculations. These quantities for 235U are studied using the measurement of the gamma de-excitation cascades in radiative capture on 234U with the Total Absorption Calorimeter at n_TOF at CERN. This segmented 4π gamma calorimeter is designed to detect gamma rays emitted from the nucleus with high efficiency. This experiment provides information on gamma multiplicity and gamma spectra that can be compared with numerical simulations. The code DICEBOXC is used to simulate the gamma cascades while GEANT4 is used for the simulation of the interaction of these gammas with the TAC materials. Available models and their parameters are being tested using the present data. Some preliminary results of this ongoing study are presented and discussed.
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Alcayne V, Kimura A, Mendoza E, Cano-Ott D, Martínez T, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Becčvář F, Bellia G, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero-Ontanaya L, Calviño F, Calviani M, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kivel N, Knapova I, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Manna A, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Persanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Ramos-Doval D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Simone S, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Talip T, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Urlass S, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vescovi D, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement of the 244Cm and 246Cm neutron-induced capture cross sections at the n_TOF facility. EPJ Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921103008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The neutron capture reactions of the 244Cm and 246Cm isotopes open the path for the formation of heavier Cm isotopes and heavier elements such as Bk and Cf in a nuclear reactor. In addition, both isotopes belong to the minor actinides with a large contribution to the decay heat and to the neutron emission in irradiated fuels. There are only two previous 244Cm and 246Cm capture cross section measurements: one in 1969 using a nuclear explosion [1] and the most recent data measured at J-PARC in 2010 [2]. The data for both isotopes are very scarce due to the difficulties in performing the measurements: high intrinsic activity of the samples and limited facilities capable of providing isotopically enriched samples.
We have measured both neutron capture cross sections at the n_TOF Experimental Area 2 (EAR-2) with three C6 D6 detectors and also at Area 1 (EAR-1) with the TAC. Preliminary results assessing the quality and limitations (back-ground subtraction, measurement technique and counting statistics) of this new experimental datasets are presented and discussed.
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Damone L, Barbagallo M, Mastromarco M, Mengoni A, Cosentino L, Maugeri E, Heinitz S, Schumann D, Dressler R, Käppeler F, Colonna N, Finocchiaro P, Andrzejewski J, Perkowski J, Gawlik A, Aberle O, Altstadt S, Ayranov M, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Ballof J, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Bellia G, Bernardes AP, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Borge MJG, Bosnar D, Brown A, Brugger M, Busso M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Catherall R, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Correia JGM, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cristallo S, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dorsival A, Dupont E, Duran I, Fernandez-Dominguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Furman W, Ganesan S, García-Rios A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Göbel K, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Goodacre TD, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Johnston K, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Köster U, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer-Woods C, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Marsh B, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Matteucci F, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Piersanti L, Piscopo M, Plompen A, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rothe S, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schell J, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Sedyshev P, Seiffert C, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Stora T, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. ^{7}Be(n,p)^{7}Li Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:042701. [PMID: 30095928 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.042701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report on the measurement of the ^{7}Be(n,p)^{7}Li cross section from thermal to approximately 325 keV neutron energy, performed in the high-flux experimental area (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility at CERN. This reaction plays a key role in the lithium yield of the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) for standard cosmology. The only two previous time-of-flight measurements performed on this reaction did not cover the energy window of interest for BBN, and they showed a large discrepancy between each other. The measurement was performed with a Si telescope and a high-purity sample produced by implantation of a ^{7}Be ion beam at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. While a significantly higher cross section is found at low energy, relative to current evaluations, in the region of BBN interest, the present results are consistent with the values inferred from the time-reversal ^{7}Li(p,n)^{7}Be reaction, thus yielding only a relatively minor improvement on the so-called cosmological lithium problem. The relevance of these results on the near-threshold neutron production in the p+^{7}Li reaction is also discussed.
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- L Damone
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Uniwersytet Łódzki, Lodz, Poland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Commission, DG-Energy, Luxembourg
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Italy
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- CEA/Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- CEA/Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
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- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Trieste, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- CNR, IC, Bari, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
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- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Universidad de Granada, Spain
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Institute for Materials Science and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
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- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
- Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Casanovas A, Domingo-Pardo C, Guerrero C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Calviño F, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Dressler R, Heinitz S, Kivel N, Quesada JM, Schumann D, Aberle O, Alcayne V, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Bellia G, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Busso M, Caamaño M, Caballero-Ontanaya L, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino L, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Dupont E, Durán I, Eleme Z, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Gunsing F, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kimura A, Kokkoris M, Kopatch Y, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Ladarescu I, Lederer-Woods C, Meo SL, Lonsdale SJ, Macina D, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Michalopoulou V, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Ogállar F, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Persanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Radeck D, Ramos D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Rochman D, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Simone S, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Talip T, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Ulrich J, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P, Köster U. Measurement of the radiative capture cross section of the s-process branching points 204Tl and 171Tm at the n_TOF facility (CERN). EPJ Web Conf 2018. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201817803004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The neutron capture cross section of some unstable nuclei is especially relevant for s-process nucleosynthesis studies. This magnitude is crucial to determine the local abundance pattern, which can yield valuable information of the s-process stellar environment. In this work we describe the neutron capture (n,γ) measurement on two of these nuclei of interest, 204Tl and 171Tm, from target production to the final measurement, performed successfully at the n_TOF facility at CERN in 2014 and 2015. Preliminary results on the ongoing experimental data analysis will also be shown. These results include the first ever experimental observation of capture resonances for these two nuclei.
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Ovejero MC, Pérez Vega-Leal A, Gallardo MI, Espino JM, Selva A, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Arráns R. LabVIEW-based control and acquisition system for the dosimetric characterization of a silicon strip detector. Rev Sci Instrum 2017; 88:025104. [PMID: 28249533 DOI: 10.1063/1.4974817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The aim of this work is to present a new data acquisition, control, and analysis software system written in LabVIEW. This system has been designed to obtain the dosimetry of a silicon strip detector in polyethylene. It allows the full automation of the experiments and data analysis required for the dosimetric characterization of silicon detectors. It becomes a useful tool that can be applied in the daily routine check of a beam accelerator.
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- M C Ovejero
- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica, Escuela de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei", 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, 41007 Seville, Spain
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Rovituso M, Schuy C, Weber U, Brons S, Cortés-Giraldo MA, La Tessa C, Piasetzky E, Izraeli D, Schardt D, Toppi M, Scifoni E, Krämer M, Durante M. Fragmentation of 120 and 200 MeV u−14He ions in water and PMMA targets. Phys Med Biol 2017; 62:1310-1326. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa5302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Colonna N, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brown A, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Clai G, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cosentino, Cristallo S, Damone LA, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler LR, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Göbel K, García AR, Gawlik A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, González E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heinitz S, Hernandez-Prieto A, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Kroll J, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Lerendegui-Marco J, Leeb H, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito S, Macina D, Mallik A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Maugeri EA, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Mingrone F, Milazzo PM, Mirea M, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piersanti L, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego A, Robles M, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weiss C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n_TOF (CERN). EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201716501014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Barbagallo M, Musumarra A, Cosentino L, Maugeri E, Heinitz S, Mengoni A, Dressler R, Schumann D, Käppeler F, Colonna N, Finocchiaro P, Ayranov M, Damone L, Kivel N, Aberle O, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Barros S, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cristallo S, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dupont E, Duran I, Fernandez-Dominguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Furman W, Ganesan S, García-Rios A, Gawlik A, Glodariu T, Göbel K, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lerendegui J, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Montesano S, Nolte R, Oprea A, Pappalardo A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piscopo M, Plompen A, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada J, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabate-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Vollaire J, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. ^{7}Be(n,α)^{4}He Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:152701. [PMID: 27768364 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.152701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The energy-dependent cross section of the ^{7}Be(n,α)^{4}He reaction, of interest for the so-called cosmological lithium problem in big bang nucleosynthesis, has been measured for the first time from 10 meV to 10 keV neutron energy. The challenges posed by the short half-life of ^{7}Be and by the low reaction cross section have been overcome at n_TOF thanks to an unprecedented combination of the extremely high luminosity and good resolution of the neutron beam in the new experimental area (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility at CERN, the availability of a sufficient amount of chemically pure ^{7}Be, and a specifically designed experimental setup. Coincidences between the two alpha particles have been recorded in two Si-^{7}Be-Si arrays placed directly in the neutron beam. The present results are consistent, at thermal neutron energy, with the only previous measurement performed in the 1960s at a nuclear reactor. The energy dependence reported here clearly indicates the inadequacy of the cross section estimates currently used in BBN calculations. Although new measurements at higher neutron energy may still be needed, the n_TOF results hint at a minor role of this reaction in BBN, leaving the long-standing cosmological lithium problem unsolved.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia DFA, Università di Catania, Italy
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Commission, DG-Energy, Luxembourg
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Teramo, Italy
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- CEA/Saclay-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Uniwersytet Łódzki, Lodz, Poland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- CEA/Saclay-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technis che Universität Wien, Austria
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- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- CNR-IC, Bari, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Universidad de Granada, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
- Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Mingrone F, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen Y, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cortés G, Cosentino L, Damone L, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Ganesan S, Garcia-Rios AA, Gawlik A, Gheorghe I, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, Gonzàlez E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Göbel K, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins G, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lerendegui J, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale S, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mirea M, Montesano S, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Praena J, Quesada JM, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. The CERN n_TOF facility: a unique tool for nuclear data measurement. EPJ Web of Conferences 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201612205001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Lerendegui-Marco J, Guerrero C, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Quesada JM, Mendoza E, Cano-Ott D, Eberhardt K, Junghans A. New measurement of the242Pu(n,γ) cross section at n_TOF. EPJ Web of Conferences 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611102005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Sanchez-Parcerisa D, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Dolney D, Kondrla M, Fager M, Carabe A. Analytical calculation of proton linear energy transfer in voxelized geometries including secondary protons. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:1705-21. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/4/1705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Cortés-Giraldo MA, Carabe A. A critical study of different Monte Carlo scoring methods of dose average linear-energy-transfer maps calculated in voxelized geometries irradiated with clinical proton beams. Phys Med Biol 2015; 60:2645-69. [PMID: 25768028 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/7/2645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We compare unrestricted dose average linear energy transfer (LET) maps calculated with three different Monte Carlo scoring methods in voxelized geometries irradiated with proton therapy beams with three different Monte Carlo scoring methods. Simulations were done with the Geant4 (Geometry ANd Tracking) toolkit. The first method corresponds to a step-by-step computation of LET which has been reported previously in the literature. We found that this scoring strategy is influenced by spurious high LET components, which relative contribution in the dose average LET calculations significantly increases as the voxel size becomes smaller. Dose average LET values calculated for primary protons in water with voxel size of 0.2 mm were a factor ~1.8 higher than those obtained with a size of 2.0 mm at the plateau region for a 160 MeV beam. Such high LET components are a consequence of proton steps in which the condensed-history algorithm determines an energy transfer to an electron of the material close to the maximum value, while the step length remains limited due to voxel boundary crossing. Two alternative methods were derived to overcome this problem. The second scores LET along the entire path described by each proton within the voxel. The third followed the same approach of the first method, but the LET was evaluated at each step from stopping power tables according to the proton kinetic energy value. We carried out microdosimetry calculations with the aim of deriving reference dose average LET values from microdosimetric quantities. Significant differences between the methods were reported either with pristine or spread-out Bragg peaks (SOBPs). The first method reported values systematically higher than the other two at depths proximal to SOBP by about 15% for a 5.9 cm wide SOBP and about 30% for a 11.0 cm one. At distal SOBP, the second method gave values about 15% lower than the others. Overall, we found that the third method gave the most consistent performance since it returned stable dose average LET values against simulation parameter changes and gave the best agreement with dose average LET estimations from microdosimetry calculations.
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- M A Cortés-Giraldo
- Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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Lederer C, Massimi C, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Barbagallo M, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Duran I, Dressler R, Dzysiuk N, Eleftheriadis C, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Ganesan S, García AR, Giubrone G, Gómez-Hornillos MB, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Gurusamy P, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Karadimos D, Kivel N, Koehler P, Kokkoris M, Korschinek G, Krtička M, Kroll J, Langer C, Leeb H, Leong LS, Losito R, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Mastinu PF, Mastromarco M, Meaze M, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Paradela C, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Pignatari M, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada JM, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego A, Roman F, Rubbia C, Sarmento R, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Versaci R, Vermeulen MJ, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wright TJ, Zugec P. Neutron capture cross section of unstable 63Ni: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:022501. [PMID: 23383895 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.022501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The 63Ni(n,γ) 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⊙ star show that the new data have a significant effect on the s-process production of 63Cu, 64Ni, and 64Zn in massive stars, allowing stronger constraints on the Cu yields from explosive nucleosynthesis in the subsequent supernova.
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- C Lederer
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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