TY - JOUR AU - n_TOF Collaboration (Wright, T. et al AU - Domingo-Pardo, C. AU - Giubrone, G. AU - Tain, J. L. AU - TarifeƱo-Saldivia, A. PY - 2017 DA - 2017// TI - Measurement of the U-238(n,gamma) cross section up to 80 keV with the Total Absorption Calorimeter at the CERN n_TOF facility T2 - Phys. Rev. C JO - Physical Review C SP - 064601 EP - 11pp VL - 96 IS - 6 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - The radiative capture cross section of a highly pure (99.999%), 6.125(2) grams and 9.56(5) x 10(-4) atoms/barn areal density U-238 sample has been measured with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) in the 185 m flight path at the CERN neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF. This measurement is in response to the NEA High Priority Request list, which demands an accuracy in this cross section of less than 3% below 25 keV. These data have undergone careful background subtraction, with special care being given to the background originating from neutrons scattered by the 238U sample. Pileup and dead-time effects have been corrected for. The measured cross section covers an energy range between 0.2 eV and 80 keV, with an accuracy that varies with neutron energy, being better than 4% below 25 keV and reaching at most 6% at higher energies. SN - 2469-9985 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.064601 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.064601 LA - English N1 - WOS:000416848700005 ID - n_TOFCollaborationWright_etal2017 ER -