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Publications in Scientific Journals:

C. Guerrero, G. Badurek, E. Jericha, H. Leeb, H. Oberhummer, -. nTOF Collaboration:
"The n_TOF Total Absorption Calorimeter for neutron capture measurements at CERN";
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 608 (2009), 424 - 433.



English abstract:
The n_TOF Collaboration has built and commissioned a high-performance detector for (n,γ) measurements called the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC). The TAC was especially designed for measuring neutron capture cross-sections of low-mass and/or radioactive samples with the accuracy required for nuclear technology and stellar nucleosynthesis. We present a detailed description of the TAC and discuss its overall performance in terms of energy and time resolution, background discrimination, detection efficiency and neutron sensitivity.

Keywords:
n_TOF; Neutron capture; Neutron cross-sections; Total Absorption; Time-of-Flight; BaF2 detector


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.025

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_177181.pdf


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