Status report of the n_TOF facility after the 2nd CERN long shutdown period

N Patronis ,M Bacak ,G Kaur ,A Kimura ,P J Woods ,R Reifarth ,E A Maugeri ,L Coséntino ,R Zarrella ,W Hillman ,M Caamaño ,S Chasapoglou ,A Musumarra ,D G Jenkins ,F Cerutti ,E Dupont ,V Babiano-Suárez ,J Plaza Del Olmo ,N V Sosnin ,S Valenta ,J Perkowski ,A Manna ,E Vagena ,K Kaperoni ,C Petrone ,B Fernández–Domínguez ,Paolo Milazzo ,S Bennett ,E Berthoumieux ,C Gustavino ,E Jericha ,A P Bernardes ,F Gunsing ,F García-Infantes ,A Sekhar ,Y Kadi ,C Lederer-Woods ,F Calviño ,P Console Camprini ,M Dietz ,D Rochman ,M Krtička ,D Vescovi ,Styliani Goula ,S Fiore ,N Colonna ,I Ladarescu ,R Mucciola ,I Porras ,E González‐Romero ,J A Pavón-Rodríguez ,A Masi ,E Chiaveri ,G Tagliente ,M Mastromarco ,V Alcayne ,A Tarifeño-Saldivia ,M Calviani ,V Vlachoudis ,G Lerner ,D Bosnar ,S Gilardoni ,J M Quesada ,C Guerrero ,N Kyritsis ,S Cristallo ,C Beltrami ,G Cescutti ,I Durán ,I Knapová ,P Vaz,E Musacchio-Gonzalez ,M Sabaté-Gilarte ,A Negreţ ,J Heyse ,E Mendoza ,Y Romanets,A Mazzone ,J Lerendegui-Marco ,A Wallner ,G Gervino ,D Cano‐Ott ,O Aberle ,Jonathan Correa ,G Vecchio ,Stephan Pomp ,M E Stamati ,B Fernández ,Mario Di Castro ,S Dellmann ,V Variale ,C Rubbia ,J Andrzejewski ,F Murtas ,A Pérez De Rada ,R Dressler ,M Boromiza ,G Cortés ,V Michalopoulou ,P Pérez-Maroto ,T Martínez ,Z Eleme ,P Torres-Sánchez ,R Vlastou ,C Massimi ,A Sánchez-Caballero ,R Beyer ,M Kokkoris ,Μ Diakaki ,A Mengoni ,S Altieri ,S Fargier ,D Tarrío ,A Junghans ,A Gawlik-Ramięga ,P Colombetti ,J Praena ,M A Cortés‐Giraldo ,P Finocchiaro ,E Pirovano ,A Casanovas ,C Domingo‐Pardo ,M G Pellegriti ,A G Smith ,P Mastinu ,P Schillebeeckx ,S Di Maria,A Sturniolo ,S Amaducci ,D Schumann ,Donato Maurizio Castelluccio ,P Žugec

doi:10.1140/epjti/s40485-023-00100-w

Abstract

During the second long shutdown period of the CERN accelerator complex (LS2, 2019-2021), several upgrade activities took place at the n_TOF facility. The most important have been the replacement of the spallation target with a next generation nitrogen-cooled lead target. Additionally, a new experimental area, at a very short distance from the target assembly (the NEAR Station) was established. In this paper, the core commissioning actions of the new installations are described. The improvement in the n_TOF infrastructure was accompanied by several detector development projects. All these upgrade actions are discussed, focusing mostly on the future perspectives of the n_TOF facility. Furthermore, some indicative current and future measurements are briefly reported.

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