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Neutrons in full flight at CERN's n_TOF facility

n_TOF, CERN’s neutron time-of-flight facility, is producing results that are important for nuclear astrophysics and novel nuclear-technology solutions

18 April, 2016

By Frank Gunsing Enrico Chiaveri

Neutrons in full flight at CERN's nTOF facility

The horizontal neutron beamline in EAR1 (left) and the vertical neutron beamline in the newly constructed EAR2. (Image: n_TOF collaboration)

n_TOF is CERN's neutron time-of-flight facility. Featuring two neutron beam lines and two experimental halls, n_TOF is producing results that are important for nuclear astrophysics and to develop novel solutions in nuclear technology. Among the main features of n_TOF, are the wide neutron energy range going from the meV up to the GeV region and the very high number of neutrons per proton burst. Consisting of about 150 researchers from 40 institutes, the n_TOF collaboration is ready to start another year of experiments from its scientific programme.

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