1. Neutron capture measurements for s-process nucleosynthesis; A review about CERN n_TOF developments and contributions
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Domingo-Pardo, C., Aberle, O., Alcayne, V., Alpar, G., Halabi, M. Al, Amaducci, S., Babiano, V., Bacak, M., Balibrea-Correa, J., Bartolomé, J., Bernardes, A. P., Gameiro, B. Bernardino, Berthoumieux, E., Beyer, R., Birch, M., Boromiza, M., Bosnar, D., Brusasco, B., Caamaño, M., Cahuzac, A., Calviño, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Casanovas, A., Castelluccio, D. M., Catlett, D., Cerutti, F., Cescutti, G., Chiaveri, E., Claps, G., Colombetti, P., Colonna, N., Camprini, P. Console, Cortés, G., Cortés-Giraldo, M. A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., D'Ottavi, A., Rosales, G. de la Fuente, Dellmann, S. F., Diakaki, M., Di Castro, M., Di Chicco, A., Dietz, M., Dupont, E., Durán, I., Eleme, Z., Eslami, M., Fargier, S., Fernández-Domínguez, B., Finocchiaro, P., Flanagan, W., Furman, V., Gandhi, A., García-Infantes, F., Gawlik-Ramiega, A., Gervino, G., Gilardoni, S., González-Romero, E., Goula, S., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Gustavino, C., Heyse, J., Hillman, W., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Junghans, A., Kadi, Y., Kaperoni, K., Kelly, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krtička, M., Kyritsis, N., Lederer-Woods, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Manna, A., Martínez, T., Martínez-Cañada, M., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Maugeri, E. A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P. M., Moldenhauer, J., Mucciola, R., González, E. Musacchio, Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Odusina, E., Papanikolaou, D., Patronis, N., Pavón-Rodríguez, J. A., Pellegriti, M. G., Pérez-Maroto, P., Fiol, A. Pérez de Rada, Perfetto, G., Perkowski, J., Petrone, C., Pieretti, N., Piersanti, L., Pirovano, E., Porras, I., Praena, J., Quesada, J. M., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Romanets, Y., Rooney, A., Rovira, G., Rubbia, C., Sánchez-Caballero, A., Sahoo, R. N., Scarpa, D., Schillebeeckx, P., Smith, A. G., Sosnin, N. V., Spelta, M., Stamati, M. E., Stasiak, K., Tagliente, G., Tarifeño-Saldivia, A., Tarrío, D., Torres-Sánchez, P., Tosi, S., Tsiledakis, G., Valenta, S., Vaz, P., Vecchio, G., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Weiss, C., Woods, P. J., Wright, T., Wu, R., Žugec, P., and Collaboration, The n\_TOF
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Nuclear Experiment ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
This article presents a review about the main CERN n\_TOF contributions to the field of neutron-capture experiments of interest for $s$-process nucleosynthesis studies over the last 25 years, with special focus on the measurement of radioactive isotopes. A few recent capture experiments on stable isotopes of astrophysical interest are also discussed. Results on $s$-process branching nuclei are appropriate to illustrate how advances in detection systems and upgrades in the facility have enabled increasingly challenging experiments and, as a consequence, have led to a better understanding and modeling of the $s$-process mechanism of nucleosynthesis. New endeavors combining radioactive-ion beams from ISOLDE for the production of radioisotopically pure samples for activation experiments at the new NEAR facility at n\_TOF are briefly discussed. On the basis of these new exciting results, also current limitations of state-of-the-art TOF and activation techniques will be depicted, thereby showing the pressing need for further upgrades and enhancements on both facilities and detection systems. A brief account of the potential technique based on inverse kinematics for direct neutron-capture measurements is also presented., Comment: submitted to Eur. Phys. Jour. Topical Collection
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- 2025