The CERN n TOF Facility: Neutron Beams Performances for Cross Section Measurements E. Chiaveri, 1, S. Altstadt, 2 J. Andrzejewski, 3 L. Audouin, 4 M. Barbagallo, 5 V. B´ ecares, 6 F. Beˇ cv´aˇ r, 7 F. Belloni, 8 E. Berthoumieux, 8, 1 J. Billowes, 9 V. Boccone, 1 D. Bosnar, 10 M. Brugger, 1 M. Calviani, 1 F. Calvi˜ no, 11 D. Cano-Ott, 6 C. Carrapi¸ co, 12 F. Cerutti, 1 M. Chin, 1 N. Colonna, 5 G. Cort´ es, 11 M.A. Cort´ es-Giraldo, 13 M. Diakaki, 14 C. Domingo-Pardo, 15 I. Duran, 16 R. Dressler, 17 N. Dzysiuk, 18 C. Eleftheriadis, 19 A. Ferrari, 1 K. Fraval, 8 S. Ganesan, 20 A.R. Garc´ ıa, 6 G. Giubrone, 15 M.B. G´ omez-Hornillos, 11 I.F. Gon¸ calves, 12 E. Gonz´ alez-Romero, 6 E. Griesmayer, 21 C. Guerrero, 1 F. Gunsing, 8 P. Gurusamy, 20 A. Hern´ andez-Prieto, 1, 11 D.G. Jenkins, 22 E. Jericha, 21 Y. Kadi, 1 F. K¨ appeler, 23 D. Karadimos, 14 N. Kivel, 17 P. Koehler, 24 M. Kokkoris, 14 M. Krtiˇ cka, 7 J. Kroll, 7 C. Lampoudis, 8 C. Langer, 2 E. Leal-Cidoncha, 16 C. Lederer, 2, 25 H. Leeb, 21 L.S. Leong, 4 R. Losito, 1 A. Mallick, 20 A. Manousos, 19 J. Marganiec, 3 T. Mart´ ınez, 6 C. Massimi, 26 P.F. Mastinu, 18 M. Mastromarco, 5 M. Meaze, 5 E. Mendoza, 6 A. Mengoni, 27 P.M. Milazzo, 28 F. Mingrone, 26 M. Mirea, 29 W. Mondalaers, 30 C. Paradela, 16 A. Pavlik, 25 J. Perkowski, 3 A. Plompen, 30 J. Praena, 13 J.M. Quesada, 13 T. Rauscher, 31 R. Reifarth, 2 A. Riego, 11 M.S. Robles, 16 F. Roman, 1, 29 C. Rubbia, 1, 32 M. Sabat´ e-Gilarte, 13 R. Sarmento, 12 A. Saxena, 20 P. Schillebeeckx, 30 S. Schmidt, 2 D. Schumann, 17 G. Tagliente, 5 J.L. Tain, 15 D. Tarr´ ıo, 16 L. Tassan-Got, 4 A. Tsinganis, 1, 14 S. Valenta, 7 G. Vannini, 26 V. Variale, 5 P. Vaz, 12 A. Ventura, 27 R. Versaci, 1 M.J. Vermeulen, 22 V. Vlachoudis, 1 R. Vlastou, 14 A. Wallner, 25 T. Ware, 9 M. Weigand, 2 C. Weiss, 21 T. Wright, 9 and P. ˇ Zugec 10 (The n TOF Collaboration (www.cern.ch/ntof)) 1 European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland 2 Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universit¨ at, Frankfurt, Germany 3 Uniwersytet  odzki, Lodz, Poland 4 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3 - IPN, Orsay, France 5 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy 6 Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol´ogicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain 7 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 8 Commissariat ` a l’ ´ Energie Atomique (CEA) Saclay - Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 9 University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK 10 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 11 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 12 Instituto Tecnol´ ogico e Nuclear, Instituto Superior T´ ecnico, Universidade T´ ecnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal 13 Universidad de Sevilla, Spain 14 National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 15 Instituto de F´ ısica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain 16 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain 17 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland 18 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy 19 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 20 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India 21 Atominstitut, Technische Universit¨ at Wien, Austria 22 University of York, Heslington, York, UK 23 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Nord, Institut f¨ ur Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany 24 University of Oslo, Oslo, Sweden 25 University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria 26 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit` a di Bologna, and Sezione INFN di Bologna, Italy 27 Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Bologna, Italy 28 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy 29 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN HH, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania 30 European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium 31 Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 32 Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso dell’INFN, Assergi (AQ),Italy Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Nuclear Data Sheets 119 (2014) 1–4 0090-3752/© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. www.elsevier.com/locate/nds http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.003