MARRONE , S.

The neutron Time-of-Flight facility at CERN was built to measure the neutron capture and fission cross sections. A short description of the facility, the detectors and the data analysis techniques will be illustrated. A short review of the preliminary results on the fission cross sections is presented together with the implications in...

The accurate knowledge of the 151Sm(n,γ) cross section has important implications for the nuclear technologies as well as for fundamental studies. Due to its radioactivity, the only experimental data available on 151Sm were derived from a transmission measurement [1]. Nowadays thanks to the innovative features of neutron time-of-flight facility...

The 151Sm(n, γ) cross section was measured with the time-of-flight technique from 0.6 eV up to 1 MeV relative to the Au standard with an overall uncertainty of typically 6%. Neutrons were produced by spallation at the innovative nTOF facility at CERN; the γ rays from capture events were detected with organic C6D6 scintillators. Experimental...