n_TOF

The neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) studies neutron-nucleus interactions for neutron energies ranging from a few meV to several GeV.

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Accelerator Report: A well-deserved winter break for the accelerator complex

Soon, CERN personnel will take a well-deserved winter break, just like the accelerator complex. Following a successful year, the remainder of the accelerator complex was stopped on 2 December, marking the official start of the year-end technical stop

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Accelerators
13 December, 2024
Accelerators
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13 December, 2024

Scientists use n_TOF to investigate how cerium is produced in the Universe

The CERN facility allowed scientists to see how this rare Earth metal is synthesised in stars. The results open up new questions about stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of galaxies

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Physics
21 March, 2024

Nuclear physics at CERN: a hub for interdisciplinary research

Fundamental research at the ISOLDE and n_TOF facilities at CERN has applications in a wide variety of areas of astrophysics, medical physics, energy and more

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Knowledge sharing
28 September, 2022
Knowledge sharing
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28 September, 2022

n_TOF poised for 10 more years of research with third-generation neutron spallation target

The installation of a new-generation neutron spallation target at the n_TOF facility marks the beginning of a new era for the collaboration

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Experiments
28 April, 2021

n_TOF facility explores neutron imaging

The n_TOF facility is investigating the potential of one of its neutron beams for imaging the interior of materials

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Physics
29 July, 2019

The accelerators awaken

The accelerator chain and the experiments that it serves are gradually awakening after the extended year-end technical stop (EYETS)

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Accelerators
13 April, 2017
Accelerators
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13 April, 2017

n_TOF plays hide-and-seek with cosmological lithium

The n_TOF collaboration has added an important piece to the puzzle of the cosmological lithium problem

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Experiments
14 October, 2016
Experiments
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14 October, 2016

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Experiments
Experiments

CERN’s neutrons fly higher

A new experimental facility and neutron beamline will provide n_TOF with its highest neutron flux yet

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Experiments
26 June, 2012
Experiments
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26 June, 2012