Measurement and resonance analysis of the Np-237 neutron capture cross section

C. Guerrero,1,2 D. Cano-Ott,1 E. Mendoza,1 U. Abbondanno,3 G. Aerts,4 F. Álvarez-Velarde,1 S. Andriamonje,4 J. Andrzejewski,5 P. Assimakopoulos,6 L. Audouin,7 G. Badurek,8 P. Baumann,9 F. Becvár,10 F. Belloni,3 E. Berthoumieux,4 F. Calviño,11 M. Calviani,12,13 R. Capote,14,15 C. Carrapiço,16,4 A. Carrillo de Albornoz,16 P. Cennini,2 V. Chepel,17 E. Chiaveri,2 N. Colonna,18 G. Cortes,19 A. Couture,20 J. Cox,20 M. Dahlfors,2 S. David,7 I. Dillmann,21 R. Dolfini,22 C. Domingo-Pardo,23 W. Dridi,4 I. Duran,24 C. Eleftheriadis,25 M. Embid-Segura,1 L. Ferrant,7 A. Ferrari,2 R. Ferreira-Marques,17 L. Fitzpatrick,2 H. Frais-Koelbl,26 K. Fujii,3 W. Furman,27 I. Goncalves,16 E. González-Romero,1 A. Goverdovski,28 F. Gramegna,12 E. Griesmayer,26 F. Gunsing,4 B. Haas,29 R. Haight,30 M. Heil,21 A. Herrera-Martinez,2 M. Igashira,31 S. Isaev,4 E. Jericha,8 F. Käppeler,21 Y. Kadi,2 D. Karadimos,6 D. Karamanis,6 V. Ketlerov,28,2 M. Kerveno,9 P. Koehler,32 V. Konovalov,27,2 E. Kossionides,33 M. Krtička,10 C. Lampoudis,25,4 H. Leeb,8 A. Lindote,17 I. Lopes,17 R. Lossito,2 M. Lozano,15 S. Lukic,9 J. Marganiec,5 L. Marques,16 S. Marrone,18 T. Martı́nez,1 C. Massimi,34 P. Mastinu,12 A. Mengoni,14,2 P. M. Milazzo,3 C. Moreau,3 M. Mosconi,21 F. Neves,17 H. Oberhummer,8 S. O’Brien,20 M. Oshima,35 J. Pancin,4 C. Papachristodoulou,6 C. Papadopoulos,36 C. Paradela,24 N. Patronis,6 A. Pavlik,37 P. Pavlopoulos,38 L. Perrot,4 M. T. Pigni,8 R. Plag,21 A. Plompen,39 A. Plukis,4 A. Poch,19 J. Praena,12 C. Pretel,19 J. Quesada,15 T. Rauscher,40 R. Reifarth,30 M. Rosetti,41 C. Rubbia,22 G. Rudolf,9 P. Rullhusen,39 J. Salgado,16 C. Santos,16 L. Sarchiapone,2 I. Savvidis,25 C. Stephan,7 G. Tagliente,18 J. L. Tain,23 L. Tassan-Got,7 L. Tavora,16 R. Terlizzi,18 G. Vannini,34 P. Vaz,16 A. Ventura,41 D. Villamarin,1 M. C. Vicente,1 V. Vlachoudis,2 R. Vlastou,36 F. Voss,21 S. Walter,21 H. Wendler,2 M. Wiescher,20 and K. Wisshak21 (n_TOF Collaboration) 1CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-Madrid, Spain 2CERN, CH-Geneva, Switzerland 3Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-Trieste, Italy 4CEA/Saclay–IRFU, F-Gif-sur-Yvette, France 5University of Lodz, PL-Lodz, Poland 6University of Ioannina, GR-Ioannina, Greece 7Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3–IPN, F-Orsay, France 8Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, A-Wien, Austria 9Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3–IReS, F-Strasbourg, France 10Charles University, CZ-Prague, Czech Republic 11Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, E-Madrid, Spain 12Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy 13Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova, I-35122 Padova, Italy 14International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Data Section, A-1400 Vienna, Austria 15Universidad de Sevilla, E-41004 Sevilla, Spain 16Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN), P-Lisbon, Portugal 17LIP Coimbra & Departamento de Fisica da Universidade de Coimbra, P-Coimbra, Portugal 18Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-Bari, Italy 19Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, E-Barcelona, Spain 20University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA 21Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Kernphysik, D-Karlsruhe, Germany 22Università degli Studi Pavia, I-Pavia, Italy 23Instituto de Fı́sica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, E-Valencia, Spain 24Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-Santiago de Compostela, Spain 25Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-Thessaloniki, Greece 26Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt, A-Wiener Neustadt, Austria 27Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia 28Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Kaluga region, Obninsk, Russia 29Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3–CENBG, F-Bordeaux, France 30Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 31Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 32Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physics Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 33NCSR, GR-Athens, Greece 34Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, and Sezione INFN di Bologna, I-Bologna, Italy 35Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai-mura, Japan 36National Technical University of Athens, GR-Athens, Greece 37Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik, Universität Wien, A-Wien, Austria 38Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, F-Paris La Défense, France 39CEC-JRC-IRMM, B-Geel, Belgium

Isabel S. Gonçalves | Yacine Kadi | I. Duran | L. Tassan-Got | S. Isaev | U. Abbondanno | G. Aerts | F. Alvarez-Velarde | J. Andrzejewski | Gerald Badurek | P. Baumann | F. Becvar | F. Calviño | D. Cano-Ott | C. Carrapiço | P. Cennini | E. Chiaveri | N. Colonna | G. Cortes | J. Cox | M. Dahlfors | I. Dillmann | W. Dridi | M. Embid-Segura | L. Ferrant | K. Fujii | A. Goverdovski | F. Gramegna | F. Gunsing | Masayuki Igashira | D. Karadimos | M. Kerveno | V. Ketlerov | V. Konovalov | A. Lindote | S. Lukic | S. Marrone | P. F. Mastinu | A. Mengoni | Corrie S. Moreau | M. Mosconi | L. Perrot | A. Plukis | A. Poch | C. Pretel | J. M. Quesada | Thomas Rauscher | G. Rudolf | P. Rullhusen | J. Salgado | L. Sarchiapone | I. Savvidis | L. Tavora | R. Terlizzi | A. Ventura | D. Villamarin | S. Walter | M. Krtička | Carlo Rubbia | F. Käppeler | J. Praena | G. Vannini | C. Domingo-Pardo | C. Papachristodoulou | E. Berthoumieux | E. González-Romero | Carlos Guerrero | E. Mendoza | R. Reifarth | Arnaud Ferrari | Martin Heil | L. Audouin | Marco T. Pigni | Aaron Couture | D. Karamanis | J. Pancin | N. Patronis | Michael Wiescher | Heinz Oberhummer | Robert C. Haight | A.J.M. Plompen | M. Calviani | Adonai Herrera-Martinez | R. Plag | G. Tagliente | P. Pavlopoulos | F. Belloni | E. Griesmayer | C. Stephan | F. Voss | R. Capote | R. Ferreira-Marques | R. Dolfini | E. Jericha | P. M. Milazzo | V. Chepel | C. Eleftheriadis | E. Kossionides | H. Leeb | M. Lozano | J. Marganiec | F. Neves | C. Paradela | A. Pavlik | M. Rosetti | J. L. Tain | V. Vlachoudis | R. Vlastou | K. Wisshak | P. A. Assimakopoulos | S. David | C. T. Papadopoulos | P. Vaz | C. Lampoudis | E. Griesmayer | A. Ferrari | S. Marrone | Y. Kadi | A. Herrera-Martínez | R. Haight | P. Vaz | V. Vlachoudis | M. Lozano | R. Capote | C. Papadopoulos | M. Rosetti | D. Karamanis | B. Haas | C. Santos | M. Igashira | J. Andrzejewski | A. Albornoz | P. Cennini | C. Rubbia | C. Lampoudis | R. Dolfini | A. Lindote | F. Neves | S. Lukić | M. Calviani | H. Wendler | M. Kerveno | A. Plompen | G. Rudolf | F. Käppeler | R. Reifarth | W. Furman | S. Andriamonje | C. Eleftheriadis | P. Pavlopoulos | L. Tassan-got | L. Audouin | S. David | C. Domingo-Pardo | A. Couture | E. Chiaveri | L. Sarchiapone | N. Colonna | E. Berthoumieux | F. Calviño | D. Cano-Ott | G. Cortes | I. Ďuran | E. González-Romero | C. Guerrero | F. Gunsing | T. Martinez | P. Mastinu | E. Mendoza | A. Mengoni | P. Milazzo | N. Patronis | J. Praena | J. Quesada | G. Tagliente | J. Taı́n | G. Vannini | R. Vlastou | C. Massimi | A. Ventura | M. Dahlfors | C. Paradela | L. Ferrant | S. Isaev | U. Abbondanno | K. Fujii | C. Moreau | G. Aerts | F. Álvarez-Velarde | F. Belloni | A. Goverdovski | E. Jericha | V. Ketlerov | H. Leeb | J. Marganiec | T. Rauscher | R. Plag | K. Wisshak | P. Assimakopoulos | G. Badurek | V. Chepel | M. Embid-Segura | R. Ferreira-Marques | H. Frais‐Koelbl | F. Gramegna | M. Heil | P. Koehler | V. Konovalov | E. Kossionides | H. Oberhummer | S. O'Brien | J. Pancin | L. Perrot | A. Plukis | A. Poch | C. Pretel | P. Rullhusen | J. Salgado | C. Stéphan | L. Tavora | R. Terlizzi | M. Wiescher | P. Baumann | J. Cox | I. Gonçalves | M. Mosconi | C. Carrapiço | W. Dridi | D. Karadimos | I. Lopes | M. Oshima | C. Papachristodoulou | I. Savvidis | S. Walter | F. Becvár | I. Dillmann | M. Pigni | L. Fitzpatrick | L. Marques | T. Martinez | C. Massimi | H. Frais-Koelbl | W. I. Furman | B. Haas | Paul Edward Koehler | S. O'Brien | H. Wendler | C. Santos | A. Carrillo de Albornoz | L. Fitzpatrick | L. Marques | M. Oshima | Isabel Lopes | M. C. Vicente | R. Lossito | Samuel Andriamonje | R. Lossito | F. Voss | D. Villamarı́n | M. Krticka | A. Pavlik

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