Browsing by Author "Belloni, Fabio"

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    • A Micromegas detector for neutron beam imaging at the n TOF facility at CERN 

      Belloni, Fabio; Andriamonje, S.; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviani, Marco; Colonna, Nicola; Gunsing, Frank; Tsinganis, A.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-05-01)
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      Micromegas (Micro-MEsh Gaseous Structure) detectors are gas detectors consisting of a stack of one ionization and one proportional chamber. A micromesh separates the two communicating regions, where two different electric ...

    • Capture cross section of 236U: the n TOF results 

      Barbagallo, Massimo; Colonna, Nicola; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Bécares, Vicente; Becvar, Zdenek; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Hernández Prieto, Álvaro; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-05-01)
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      Neutron induced capture cross section on 236U has been measured with high accuracy and high resolution at n TOF, in order to improve data libraries needed for the development of advanced nuclear reactors. Preliminary results ...

    • High-accuracy determination of the neutron flux at n TOF 

      Barbagallo, M.; Guerrero, C.; Tsinganis, A.; Tarrío, D.; Altstadt, S.; Andriamonje, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Bécares, V.; Becvar, F.; Belloni, Fabio; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén; Hernández-Prieto, A.; Riego Pérez, Albert (2013-12-18)
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      The neutron flux of the n TOF facility at CERN was measured, after installation of the new spallation target, with four different systems based on three neutron-converting reactions, which represent accepted cross sections ...

    • Measurement and analysis of the Am 241 (n, gamma) cross section with liquid scintillator detectors using time-of-flight spectroscopy at the n-TOF facility at CERN 

      Fraval, Kevin; Gunsing, Frank; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Barbagallo, Massimo; Bécares, Vicente; Belloni, Fabio; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén; Hernández Prieto, Álvaro; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-04-23)
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      The Am241(n,¿) cross section has been measured at the n-TOF facility at CERN using deuterated benzene liquid scintillators, commonly known as C6D6 detectors, and time-of-flight spectrometry. The results in the resolved ...

    • Measurement of the 54,57Fe(n,gamma) cross section in the resolved resonance region at CERN n TOF 

      Taín Enríquez, José Luis; Lederer, Claudia; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Barbagallo, Massimo; Bécares, Vicente; Becvar, F.; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-05-01)
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      54Fe and 57 Fe are stable iron isotopes, which play an important role in the nucleosynthesis of the slow neutron capture process (s process). In addition, these nuclei are present in many structural materials, and therefore, ...

    • Measurement of the a ratio and (n,¿) cross section of U 235 from 0.2 to 200 eV at n_TOF 

      Balibrea-Correa, J.; Mendoza, E.; Cano Ott, Daniel; Capote Noy, Roberto; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Bécares, Vicente; Barbagallo, Massimo; Becvar, F.; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Billowes, J.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén (American Physical Society, 2020-10-20)
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      We measured the neutron capture-to-fission cross-section ratio (a ratio) and the capture cross section of 235U between 0.2 and 200 eV at the n_TOF facility at CERN. The simultaneous measurement of neutron-induced capture ...

    • Measurement of the neutron capture cross-section of 236U 

      Barbagallo, Massimo; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere (2010-10-07)
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    • Neutron beam imaging with micromegas detectors in combination with neutron time-of-flight at the n_tof facility at CERN 

      Belloni, Fabio; Andriamonje, S.; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Riego Pérez, Albert (2012)
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      A bulk micromegas detector with the anode segmented in 2 orthogonal directions and equipped with a neutron/charged particle converter is employed at the neutron time-of-light (nTOF) facility at CERN to determine the incident ...

    • Neutron capture measuremetns on minor actinides at the n_TOF facility at CERN: past, present and future 

      Cano Ott, Daniel; Colonna, Nicola; Tagliente, G.; Belloni, Fabio; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Poch Parés, Agustí; Pretel Sánchez, Carme (2011-08-12)
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      The successful development of advanced nuclear systems for sustainable energy production and nuclear waste management depends on high quality nuclear data libraries. Recent sensitivity stud- ies and reports [1-3] have ...

    • New measurement of the 25Mg(n,gamma) reaction cross section 

      Massimi, Cristian; Koehler, Paul E.; Mingrone, Federica; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Audouin, Ludmila; Barbagallo, Massimo; Bécares, Vicente; Becvar, F.; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-05-01)
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      The 25Mg(n,gamma) reaction cross-section has been measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n TOF at CERN in 2003 and, with an improved experimental set up, in 2012. These measurements aim at addressing important ...

    • Spin Measurements of n+87Sr for Level Density Studies 

      Gunsing, Frank; Fraval, Kevin; Becvar, F.; Mitchell, G.E.; Andrzejewski, Józef; Altstadt, Sebastian; Audouin, Ludmila; Barbagallo, Massimo; Bécares, Vicente; Belloni, Fabio; Berthoumieux, Eric; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Riego Pérez, Albert (2014-05-01)
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      We have used the 4p BaF2 gamma-ray detector array at the n TOF neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN for an experiment in order to determine the spins of resonances of n+87Sr by measuring the gamma-ray spectra and ...

    • Study of photon strength function of actinides: the case of 235-U, 238-Np and 241-Pu 

      Cano Ott, Daniel; Colonna, Nicola; Tagliente, G.; Belloni, Fabio; Abbondanno, U.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Poch Parés, Agustí; Pretel Sánchez, Carme (2011-08-12)
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      The decay from excited levels in medium and heavy nuclei can be described in a statistical approach by means of Photon Strength Functions and Level Density distributions. The study of electromagnetic cascades following ...

    • Sub-second infrared variability from the archetypal accreting neutron star 4U 1728-34 

      Vincentelli, Federico; Casella, Piergiorgio; Borghese, Alice; Cavecchi, Yuri; Mastroserio, Guglielmo; Stella, Luigi; Altamirano, Diego; Armas Padilla, Montserrat; Baglio, Maria Cristina; Belloni, Fabio; Casares, Jorge; Cúneo, Virginia; Degenaar, Nathalie (Oxford University Press, 2023-10-25)
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      We report on the first simultaneous high-time resolution X-ray and infrared (IR) observations of a neutron star low mass X-ray binary in its hard state. We performed ¿h of simultaneous observations of 4U 1728-34 using ...