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Neutron induced fission cross-section of 240Pu(n,f): first results from n_TOF (CERN) Experimental Area II

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Neutron induced fission cross-section of 240Pu(n,f): first results from n_TOF (CERN) Experimental Area II (EN)
Colonna, N.
Vlastou, R.
Calviani, M.
Kokkoris, M.
Heyse, J.
Plompen, A.
n_TOF Collaboration, and the
Schillebeeckx, P.
Chiaveri, E.
Stamatopoulos, A.
Tsinganis, A.
Berthoumieux, E.
Barbagallo, M.
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2019-03-08
The accurate knowledge of neutron cross-sections of a variety of plutonium isotopes and other minor actinides, such as neptunium, americium and curium, is crucial for feasibility and performance studies of advanced nuclear systems (Generation-IV reactors, Accelerator Driven Systems). In this context, the 240Pu(n,f) cross-section was measured with the time-of-flight technique at the CERN n_TOF facility at incident neutron energies ranging from thermal to several MeV. The present measurement is the first to have been performed at n_TOF's newly commissioned Experimental Area II (EAR-2), which is located at the end of an 18m neutron beam-line and features a neutron fluence that is 25-30 times higher with respect to the existing 185m flight-path (EAR-1), as well as stronger suppression of sample-induced backgrounds, due to the shorter times-of-flight involved. Preliminary results are presented. (EN)
n_TOF (EN)
neutron-induced fission (EN)
plutonium (EN)
Annual Symposium of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
English
Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society (HNPS) (EN)
2654-0088
2654-007X
Annual Symposium of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society; Τόμ. 23 (2015): HNPS2015; 22-27 (EL)
HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics; Vol. 23 (2015): HNPS2015; 22-27 (EN)
Πνευματική ιδιοκτησία (c) 2019 A. Tsinganis, A. Stamatopoulos, N. Colonna, R. Vlastou, P. Schillebeeckx, A. Plompen, J. Heyse, M. Kokkoris, M. Barbagallo, E. Berthoumieux, M. Calviani, E. Chiaveri, and the n_TOF Collaboration (EL)
Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
Annual Symposium of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
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