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Neutron measurements for advanced nuclear systems: The n_TOF project at CERN |
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| Affiliation: | a Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy b European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland c Uniwersytet ?ódzki, Lodz, Poland d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France e Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Technologicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain f Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic g Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Saclay - Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette, France h Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain i Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN), Lisbon, Portugal j Universidad de Sevilla, Spain k Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany l GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany m Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain n Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India o Instituto de F?`sica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain p Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy q National Centre of Scientific Research (NCSR), Demokritos, Greece r University of Ioannina, Greece s Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, Austria t Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Nord, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany u University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria v Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Sezione INFN di Bologna, Italy w Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Bologna, Italy x Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy y Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany z CEC-JRC-IRMM, Geel, Belgium aa Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland ab Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN HH, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania ac Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso dell’INFN, Assergi (AQ), Italy ad National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece ae Institute of Experimental and Applied Physic (IEAP), Czech Technical University (CTU), Prague, Czech Republic af J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt a.M., Germany |
| Abstract: | A few years ago, the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF was built at CERN to address some of the urgent needs of high-accuracy nuclear data for Accelerator Driven Systems and other advanced nuclear energy systems, as well as for nuclear astrophysics and fundamental nuclear physics. Thanks to the characteristics of the neutron beam, and to state-of-the-art detection and acquisition systems, high quality neutron cross-section data have been obtained for a variety of isotopes, many of which radioactive. Following an important upgrade of the spallation target and of the experimental area, a new measurement campaign has started last year. After a brief review of the most important results obtained so far at n_TOF, the new features of the facility are presented, together with the first results on the commissioning of the neutron beam. The plans for future measurements, in particular related to nuclear technology are finally discussed. |
| Keywords: | Accelerator Driven Systems Advanced nuclear reactors Neutron-induced reactions Neutron time-of-flight facility Spallation neutron source CERN |
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