Status report of the n_TOF facility after the 2nd CERN long shutdown period
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Published:2023-05-17
Issue:1
Volume:10
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ISSN:2195-7045
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Container-title:EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation
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language:en
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Short-container-title:EPJ Techn Instrum
Author:
Patronis N.ORCID, Mengoni A., Goula S., Aberle O., Alcayne V., Altieri S., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Babiano-Suarez V., Bacak M., Balibrea Correa J., Beltrami C., Bennett S., Bernardes A. P., Berthoumieux E., Beyer R., Boromiza M., Bosnar D., Caamaño M., Calviño F., Calviani M., Cano-Ott D., Casanovas A., Castelluccio D. M., Cerutti F., Cescutti G., Chasapoglou S., Chiaveri E., Colombetti P., Colonna N., Console Camprini P., Cortés G., Cortés-Giraldo M. A., Cosentino L., Cristallo S., Dellmann S., Di Castro M., Di Maria S., Diakaki M., Dietz M., Domingo-Pardo C., Dressler R., Dupont E., Durán I., Eleme Z., Fargier S., Fernández B., Fernández-Domínguez B., Finocchiaro P., Fiore S., García-Infantes F., Gawlik-Ramiega A., Gervino G., Gilardoni S., González-Romero E., Guerrero C., Gunsing F., Gustavino C., Heyse J., Hillman W., Jenkins D. G., Jericha E., Junghans A., Kadi Y., Kaperoni K., Kaur G., Kimura A., Knapová I., Kokkoris M., Krtička M., Kyritsis N., Ladarescu I., Lederer-Woods C., Lerendegui-Marco J., Lerner G., Manna A., Martínez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinu P., Mastromarco M., Maugeri E. A., Mazzone A., Mendoza E., Michalopoulou V., Milazzo P. M., Mucciola R., Murtas F., Musacchio-Gonzalez E., Musumarra A., Negret A., Pérez de Rada A., Pérez-Maroto P., Pavón-Rodríguez J. A., Pellegriti M. G., Perkowski J., Petrone C., Pirovano E., Plaza del Olmo J., Pomp S., Porras I., Praena J., Quesada J. M., Reifarth R., Rochman D., Romanets Y., Rubbia C., Sánchez-Caballero A., Sabaté-Gilarte M., Schillebeeckx P., Schumann D., Sekhar A., Smith A. G., Sosnin N. V., Stamati M. E., Sturniolo A., Tagliente G., Tarifeño-Saldivia A., Tarrío D., Torres-Sánchez P., Vagena E., Valenta S., Variale V., Vaz P., Vecchio G., Vescovi D., Vlachoudis V., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Woods P. J., Zarrella R., Zugec P.
Abstract
AbstractDuring the second long shutdown period of the CERN accelerator complex (LS2, 2019-2021), several upgrade activities took place at the n_TOF facility. The most important have been the replacement of the spallation target with a next generation nitrogen-cooled lead target. Additionally, a new experimental area, at a very short distance from the target assembly (the NEAR Station) was established. In this paper, the core commissioning actions of the new installations are described. The improvement in the n_TOF infrastructure was accompanied by several detector development projects. All these upgrade actions are discussed, focusing mostly on the future perspectives of the n_TOF facility. Furthermore, some indicative current and future measurements are briefly reported.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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