The n_TOF Collaboration General Meeting 2023

from Wednesday 22 November 2023 (08:00) to Friday 24 November 2023 (19:00)
Valencia, Spain

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023
AM
09:30
Welcome & Introduction - Cesar Domingo Pardo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Alberto Mengoni (ENEA & INFN, Bologna) (until 09:35)
09:35
Facility - Cesar Domingo Pardo (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES)) (until 11:00)
09:35 Facility status - Oliver Aberle (CERN)  
10:00 Summary of the physics program 2023 - Nikolaos Patronis (University of Ioannina (GR))  
10:20 Flux to EAR1 & EAR2 from the commissioning - et al. Michael Bacak (CERN)  
10:40 Update on NEAR activities - Elisso Stamati (University of Ioannina (GR))  
11:00 --- break ---
11:30
Capture 1 -Dr Cristian Massimi (until 13:30)
11:30 Nb-94 (n,γ) experiment: analysis progress - Javier Balibrea Correa (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
11:50 50,53Cr(n,γ) at EAR1 - Pablo Perez Maroto (Universidad de Sevilla)  
12:10 Mo-94, Mo-95 and Mo-96 capture - Riccardo Mucciola (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
12:30 Measurement of the Ta(n,γ) and Er(n,γ) cross-sections at EAR1 - Victor Alcayne Aicua (CIEMAT (Spain))  
12:50 205Tl(n,γ) analysis update - Adria Casanovas Hoste (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya (ES))  
13:10 64Ni(n,γ) and 30Si(n,γ): motivations and preliminary results - Michele Spelta (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
09:30
Instruments - Nikolaos Patronis (University of Ioannina (GR)) (until 11:10)
09:30 LaBr3 tests at n_TOF. - Matthew James Birch (University of Manchester (GB))  
09:50 Neutron sensitivity study sTED vs. Legnaro C6D6 - Jorge Lerendegui Marco (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
10:10 DDX setup at EAR1 - Elisa Pirovano (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (DE))  
10:30 12C(n,cp) physics cases: Validation of the nTD a-Si prototype using digital PSA - Styliani Goula (University of Ioannina (GR))  
10:50 X17 setup - Carlo Gustavino (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
11:10 --- break ---
11:40
Instruments 2 - Javier Balibrea Correa (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) (until 13:35)
11:40 NEAR background and first tests with active detectors - Jorge Lerendegui Marco (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
12:00 Measurement with Diamond Detector at NEAR - Kalliopi Kaperoni (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
12:20 Geant4 simulations of the n_TOF - Jose Antonio Pavon Rodriguez (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))  
12:40 Considerations about a 4th REAR beam line at n_TOF - Vicente Bécares (CIEMAT) Dr Daniel Cano Ott (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, MedioAmbientales y Tecnológicas)  
13:00 SiC irradiation in EAR1&2 and NEAR - Simone Amaducci (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (IT))  
13:15 Gold activation in EAR1 and EAR2 - Elizabeth Musacchio Gonzalez  
PM
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
15:30
Capture 2 & others - Jorge Lerendegui Marco (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) (until 16:50)
15:30 Status of the 68Zn(n,γ) reaction measurement analysis - Annie Rooney (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
15:50 Status of the measurement of the 176Yb(n,γ) cross-section - Francisco Garcia Infantes (n_TOF)  
16:10 Status report on the 35Cl(n,p) measurement at EAR2 - Pablo Torres Sanchez (Universidad de Granada (ES))  
16:30 27Al(n,p) and (n,⍺) - Emmanuel Seyi Odusina (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
16:50 --- break ---
17:20
Fission & capture - Alice Manna (Universita Di Bologna (IT)) (until 18:40)
17:20 First results of the 243Am(n,f) measurement at EAR1 and EAR2 - Nikolaos Kyritsis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))  
17:40 235(n,f) with STEFF (TBC) - Mr Adhitya Sekhar (The University of Manchester) Adhitya Sekhar (University of Manchester (GB)) Tobias James Wright (University of Manchester (GB))  
18:00 239Pu(n,f) and (n,𝛾) - Adrian Sanchez Caballero (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
18:20 Advances in the Gd-160 capture cross section data analysis - Dr Mario Mastromarco (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))  
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
15:00
New proposals, setups, etc. - Michael Bacak (CERN) (until 16:50)
15:00 Study of n+63,65Cu reactions, and their relevance for nuclear technologies and Astrophysics - Cristian Massimi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
15:20 NEAR proposal - Maria Dorothea Schumann (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))  
15:40 Neutron capture cross section of 124Sn and its impact on (0νββ) process and stellar astrophysics - Dr Aman Gandhi (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering—IFIN HH)  
16:00 Zr88 proposal - Will Flanagan  
16:20 The MArEX initiative: First results of test measurements - Riccardo Mucciola (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)) Zinovia Eleme (University of Ioannina (GR)) Yashwanth Sai Bezawada (University of California Davis (US))  
16:50 --- break ---
17:20
Discussion & other contributions (until 18:20)
17:20 Announcement: NUCLEI IN THE COSMOS XVIII Barcelona/Girona, Summer 2025 - Paco Calvino Tavares (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya (ES))  
17:30 Measurement of thermal neutron detection efficiency of NMX detector using enriched Gd samples - Dorothea Pfeiffer (CERN)