Measurement of the energy-differential cross-section of the 12 C(n,p) 12 B and 12 C(n,d) 11 B reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN

• Published in: EPJ Web of conferences Vol. 239; p. 1045
• Main Authors: Barbagallo, M., Aberle, O., Alcayne, V., Amaducci, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Babiano-Suarez, V, Bacak, M., Bennett, S., Berthoumieux, E., Bosnar, D., Brown, A. S., Busso, M., Caamaño, M., Caballero, L., Calviani, M., Calviño, F., Cano-Ott, D, Casanovas, A., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Colonna, N., Cortés, G. P., Cortés-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., Damone, L. A., Davies, P. J., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Domingo-Pardo, C, Dressler, R., Ducasse, Q., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Eleme, Z., Fernández-Domíngez, B., Ferrari, A., Ferro-Gonçalves, I., Finocchiaro, P., Furman, V., Garg, R., Gawlik, A., Gilardoni, S., Göbel, K., González-Romero, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Heinitz, S., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Jiri, U., Junghans, A., Kadi, Y., Käppeler, F., Kimura, A., Knapová, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krtička, M., Kurtulgil, D., Ladarescu, I., Lederer-Woods, C, Lerendegui-Marco, J, Lonsdale, S.-J., Macina, D., Manna, A., Martínez, T., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P. F., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Millán-Callado, M. A., Mingrone, F., Moreno-Soto, J, Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Ogállar, F., Oprea, A., Patronis, N., Pavlik, A., Perkowski, J., Petrone, C., Piersanti, L., Pirovano, E., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Ramos Doval, D., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Rubbia, C., Sabaté- Gilarte, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• ISSN: 2100-014X; 2100-014X
• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202023901045

Although the 12 C(n,p) 12 B and 12 C(n,d) 11 B reactions are of interest in several fields of basic and applied Nuclear Physics the present knowledge of these two cross-sections is far from being accurate and reliable, with both evaluations and data showing sizable discrepancies. As part of the challenging n_TOF program on (n,cp) nuclear reactions study, the energy differential cross-sections of the 12 C(n,p) 12 B and 12 C(n,d) 11 B reactions have been measured at CERN from the reaction thresholds up to 30 MeV neutron energy. Both measurements have been recently performed at the long flight-path (185 m) experimental area of the n_TOF facility at CERN using a pure (99.95%) rigid graphite target and two silicon telescopes. In this paper an overview of the experiment is presented together with a few preliminary results.