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G. Tagliente¹, U. Abbondanno², G. Aerts³, H. Alvarez⁴, F. Alvarez-Velarde⁵, S. Andriamonje³, J. Andrzejewski⁶, P. Assimakopoulos⁷, L. Audouin⁸, G. Badurek⁹, P. Baumann¹⁰, F. Becvar¹¹, F. Belloni², E. Berthoumieux³, S. Bisterzo¹², F. Calvino¹³, M. Calviani¹⁴, D. Cano-Ott⁵, R. Capote^15,16, C. Carrapico¹⁷, P. Cennini¹⁸, V. Chepel¹⁹, E. Chiaveri¹⁸, N. Colonna¹, G. Cortes¹³, A. Couture²⁰, J. Cox²⁰, M. Dahlfors¹⁸, S. David¹⁰, I. Dillman⁸, C. Domingo-Pardo²¹, W. Dridi³, I. Duran⁴, C. Eleftheriadis²², M. Embid-Segura⁵, L. Ferrant¹², A. Ferrari¹⁸, R. Ferreira-Marques¹⁹, K. Fujii², W. Furman²⁴, R. Gallino¹², I. Goncalves¹⁹, E. Gonzalez-Romero⁵, F. Gramegna¹⁴, C. Guerrero⁵, F. Gunsing³, B. Haas²⁵, R. Haight²⁶, M. Heil⁸, A. Herrera-Martinez¹⁸, M. Igashira²⁷, E. Jericha⁹, F. Kappeler⁸, Y. Kadi¹⁸, D. Karadimos⁷, D. Karamanis⁷, M. Kerveno¹⁰, P. Koehler²⁸, E. Kossionides²⁹, M. Krticka¹¹, C. Lamboudis²², H. Leeb⁹, A. Lindote¹⁹, I. Lopes¹⁹, M. Lozano¹⁶, S. Lukic¹⁰, J. Marganiec⁶, S. Marrone¹, T. Martinez⁵, C. Massimi³⁰, P. Mastinu¹⁴, A. Mengoni¹⁵, P. M. Milazzo², C. Moreau², M. Mosconi⁸, F. Neves¹⁹, H. Oberhummer⁹, S. O'Brien²⁰, J. Pancin³, C. Papachristodoulou⁷, C. Papadopoulos³¹, C. Paradela⁴, N. Patronis⁷, A. Pavlik³², P. Pavlopoulos³³, L. Perrot³, M. T. Pigni⁹, R. Plag⁸, A. Plompen³⁴, A. Plukis³, A. Poch¹³, J. Praena¹⁴, C. Pretel¹³, J. Quesada¹⁶, T. Rauscher³⁵, R. Reifarth²⁶, C. Rubbia³⁶, G. Rudolf¹⁰, P. Rullhusen³⁴, J. Salgado¹⁷, C. Santos¹⁷, L. Sarchiapone¹⁸, I. Savvidis²², C. Stephan²³, J. L. Tain²¹, L. Tassan-Got²³, L. Tavora¹⁷, R. Terlizzi¹, G. Vannini³⁰, P. Vaz¹⁷, A. Ventura³⁷, D. Villamarin⁵, M. C. Vincente⁵, V. Vlachoudis¹⁸, R. Vlastou³¹, F. Voss⁹, S. Walter⁸, H. Wendler¹⁸, M. Wiescher²⁰, K. Wisshak⁸ (The n_TOF Collaboration)

¹INFN, Trieste, Italy
²INFN, Bari, Italy
³CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁴Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
⁵CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
⁶Univ. Lodz, Poland
⁷Univ. Ioannina, Greece
⁸FZK, Institut für Kernphysik, Germany
⁹Technische Universität Wien, Austria
¹⁰CNRS/IN2P3 - IReS, Strasbourg, France
¹¹Univ. Prague, Czech Republic
¹²Dip. Fisica Generale, Univ. Torino, Italy
¹³Univ. Politecnica Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
¹⁴INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
¹⁵IAEA, Vienna, Austria
¹⁶Univ. Sevilla, Spain
¹⁷ITN, Lisbon, Portugal
¹⁸CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
¹⁹LIP - Coimbra & Dep. Fisica Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
²⁰Univ. Notre Dame, USA
²¹Inst. Fisica Corpuscular, CSIC-Univ. Valencia, Spain
²²Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece
²³CNR S/IN2P3 - IPN, Orsay, France
²⁴JINR, Frank Lab. Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia
²⁵CNRS/IN2P3 - IPN, Orsay, France
²⁶LANL, USA
²⁷Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan
²⁸ORNL, Physics Division, USA
²⁹NCSR, Athens, Greece
³⁰Dip. Fisica, Univ. Bologna, & INFN, Bologna, Italy
³¹National Technical Univ. Athens, Greece
³²Inst. für Fakultät für Physik, Univ. Wien, Austria
³³Pôle Univ. L. de Vinci, Paris, France
³⁴CEC-JRC-IRMM, Geel, Belgium
³⁵Dep. Physics and Astronomy, Univ. Basel, Switzerland
³⁶Univ. Pavia, Italy
³⁷ENEA, Bologna, Italy

Abstract: The neutron time of flight (n_TOF) facility at CERN is a neutron spallation source, its white neutron energy spectrum ranges from thermal to several GeV, covering the full energy range of interest for nuclear astrophysics, in particular for measurements of the neutron capture cross-section required in s-process nucleosynthesis. This contribution gives an overview on the astrophysical program made at n_TOF facility, the results and the implications will be considered.

Keywords: Astrophysics, r-process.

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