Measurement of the 12C(n,p)12B cross section at n_TOF at CERN by in-beam activation analysis

@article{vZugec2014MeasurementOT,
  title={Measurement of the 12C(n,p)12B cross section at n\_TOF at CERN by in-beam activation analysis},
  author={Petar vZugec and Nicola Colonna and Damir Bosnar and Alberto Mengoni and Sebastian Altstadt and Janusz Andrzejewski and Laurent Audouin and M. Barbagallo and V. B'ecares and F. Bevcv'avr and Fabio Belloni and Eric Berthoumieux and Jonathan Billowes and Vittorio Boccone and Markus Brugger and Marco Calviani and F. Calvino D. Cano-Ott and C. Carrapicco and Francesco Cerutti and E. Chiaveri and Mary P. W. Chin and G. Cort'es and M. A. Cort'es-Giraldo and Luigi Cosentino and Maria Diakaki and C{\'e}sar Domingo-Pardo and R. Dressler and Ignacio Durán and Christos Eleftheriadis and Arnaud Ferrari and Paolo Finocchiaro and K. Fraval and Srinivasan Ganesan and A. R. Garc'ia and Giuseppe Giubrone and M.B.G'omez-Hornillos and I. F. Gonccalves and E. Gonz'alez-Romero and Erich Griesmayer and C. Guerrero and F. Gunsing and P. Gurusamy and S Heinitz and David G. Jenkins and Erwin Jericha and Franz Kappeler and Darren Karadimos and Nikolay Kivel and Michael Kokkoris and M. Krtivcka and Jeri Kroll and Christoph Langer and Claudia Lederer and H. Leeb and Lou Sai Leong and S. LoMeo and Roberto Losito and Athanasios Manousos and Justyna Marganiec and T. Mart'inez and Cristian Massimi and Pierfrancesco Mastinu and Mario Mastromarco and Emilio Mendoza and Paolo Milazzo and Federica Mingrone and Mihail Mirea and W. Mondalaers and A. Musumarra and Carlos Paradela and A. Pavl{\'i}k and J. Perkowski and Arjan J. M. Plompen and Javier Praena and Jose Manuel Villalba Quesada and Thomas Rauscher and Rene Reifarth and Albert Riego and F. Roman and Carlo Rubbia and Ra{\'u}l Sarmento and Abhay Saxena and Peter Schillebeeckx and Sebastian Schmidt and Dorothea Schumann and G. Tagliente and J. L. Taı́n and D. Tarr'io and L. Tassan-got and A. Tsinganis and S. Valenta and Gianni Vannini and V Variale and Pedro Vaz and Alberto Ventura and Roberto Versaci and M.J. Vermeulen and V. Vlachoudis and R. Vlastou and Anton Wallner and T. C. Ware and M. Weigand and C. Wei{\ss} and T. Wright},
  journal={Physical Review C},
  year={2014},
  volume={90},
  pages={021601}
}
The integral cross section of the 12C(n, p)12B reaction has been determined for the first time in the neutron energy range from threshold to several G 
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