High-precision Measurement of the 238 U(n,γ ) Cross Section with the Total Absorption Calorimeter (TAC) at n TOF, CERN T. Wright, 1, * C. Guerrero, 2, 1 J. Billowes, 1 T. Ware, 1 D. Cano-Ott, 3 E. Mendoza, 3 C. Massimi, 4 F. Mingrone, 4 F. Gunsing, 5 E. Berthoumieux, 5 C. Lampoudis, 6 S. Altstadt, 7 J. Andrzejewski, 8 L. Audouin, 9 M. Barbagallo, 10 V. B´ ecares, 3 F. Beˇ cv´aˇ r, 11 F. Belloni, 5, 2 V. Boccone, 2 D. Bosnar, 12 M. Brugger, 2 M. Calviani, 2 F. Calvi˜ no, 13 C. Carrapi¸ co, 14 F. Cerutti, 2 E. Chiaveri, 5, 2 M. Chin, 2 N. Colonna, 10 G. Cort´ es, 13 M.A. Cort´ es-Giraldo, 15 M. Diakaki, 16 C. Domingo-Pardo, 17 I. Duran, 18 R. Dressler, 19 N. Dzysiuk, 20 C. Eleftheriadis, 21 A. Ferrari, 2 K. Fraval, 5 S. Ganesan, 22 A.R. Garc´ ıa, 3 M.B. G´ omez-Hornillos, 13 I.F. Gon¸ calves, 14 E. Gonz´ alez-Romero, 3 E. Griesmayer, 23 G. Giubrone, 17 P. Gurusamy, 22 D.G. Jenkins, 24 E. Jericha, 23 Y. Kadi, 2 F. K¨ appeler, 25 D. Karadimos, 16 N. Kivel, 19 P. Koehler, 26 M. Kokkoris, 16 G. Korschinek, 27 M. Krtiˇ cka, 11 J. Kroll, 11 C. Langer, 7 C. Lederer, 28 H. Leeb, 23 L.S. Leong, 9 R. Losito, 2 A. Manousos, 21 J. Marganiec, 8 T. Mart´ ınez, 3 P.F. Mastinu, 20 M. Mastromarco, 10 M. Meaze, 10 A. Mengoni, 29 P.M. Milazzo, 30 M. Mirea, 31 W. Mondelaers, 32 C. Paradela, 18 A. Pavlik, 28 J. Perkowski, 8 M. Pignatari, 33 A. Plompen, 32 J. Praena, 15 J.M. Quesada, 15 T. Rauscher, 33 R. Reifarth, 7 A. Riego, 13 F. Roman, 2, 31 C. Rubbia, 2, 34 R. Sarmento, 14 P. Schillebeeckx, 32 S. Schmidt, 7 D. Schumann, 19 G. Tagliente, 10 J.L. Tain, 17 D. Tarr´ ıo, 18 L. Tassan-Got, 9 A. Tsinganis, 2 S. Valenta, 11 G. Vannini, 4 V. Variale, 10 P. Vaz, 14 A. Ventura, 29 R. Versaci, 2 M.J. Vermeulen, 24 V. Vlachoudis, 2 R. Vlastou, 16 A. Wallner, 28 M. Weigand, 7 C. Weiß, 23 and P. ˇ Zugec 12 1 University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK 2 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland 3 Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol´ogicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain 4 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit` a di Bologna, and Sezione INFN di Bologna, Italy 5 Commissariat ` a l’ ´ Energie Atomique (CEA) Saclay - Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 6 CEA, France 7 Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universit¨ at, Frankfurt, Germany 8 Uniwersytet  odzki, Lodz, Poland 9 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3 - IPN, Orsay, France 10 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari, Italy 11 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 12 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 13 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 14 Instituto Tecnol´ ogico e Nuclear, Instituto Superior T´ ecnico, Universidade T´ ecnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal 15 Universidad de Sevilla, Spain 16 National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 17 Instituto de F´ ısica Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain 18 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain 19 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland 20 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy 21 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 22 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India 23 Atominstitut, Technische Universit¨ at Wien, Austria 24 University of York, Heslington, York, UK 25 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Campus Nord, Institut f¨ ur Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany 26 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA 27 Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany 28 University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria 29 Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Bologna, Italy 30 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy 31 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN HH, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania 32 European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium 33 Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Nuclear Data Sheets 119 (2014) 26–30 0090-3752/© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. www.elsevier.com/locate/nds http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.009