Author:
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.,Saxena A.,Schillebeeckx P.,Schumann D.,Sekhar A.,Smith A. G.,Sosnin N.,Sprung P.,Stamatopoulos A.,Tagliente G.,Tain J. L.,Tarifeño-Saldivia A. E.,Tassan-Got L,Thomas B.,Torres-Sánchez P.,Tsinganis A.,Urlass S.,Valenta S.,Vannini G.,Variale V.,Vaz P.,Ventura A.,Vescovi D.,Vlachoudis V.,Vlastou R.,Wallner A.,Woods P. J.,Wright T. J.,Žugec P.
Abstract
Although the 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(n,d)11B 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 12C(n,p)12B and 12C(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.