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Neutron capture cross sections are one of the most important nuclear inputs to models of stellar nucleosynthesis of the elements heavier than iron. The activation technique and the time-of-flight method are mostly used to determine the required data experimentally. Recent developments of experimental techniques allow for new experiments on radioactive isotopes. Monte Carlo based analysis methods give new insights into the systematic uncertainties of previous measurements. We present an overview over the state-of-the-art experimental techniques, a detailed new evaluation of the 197Au(n,\(\gamma\)) cross section in the keV-regime and the corresponding re-evaluation of 63 more isotopes, which have been measured in the past relative to the gold cross section.
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Reifarth, R., Erbacher, P., Fiebiger, S. et al. Neutron-induced cross sections. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 133, 424 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12295-3
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