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Mirco Dietz, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Oliver Aberle, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Michael Bacak, Javier Balibrea Correa, Massimo Barbagallo, František Bečvář, Eric Berthoumieux, Jonathan Billowes, Damir Bosnar, Adam Brown, Manuel Caamaño, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Marco Calviani, Daniel Cano-Ott, Roberto Cardella, Adrià Casanovas Hoste, Francesco Cerutti, Yonghao Chen, Enrico Chiaveri, Nicola Colonna, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Luigi Cosentino, Lucia Anna Damone, Maria Diakaki, César Domingo-Pardo, Rugard Dressler, Emmeric Dupont, Ignacio Durán, Beatriz Fernández Domínguez, Alfredo Ferrari, Pedro G. Ferreira, Paolo Finocchiaro, Valter Furman, Kathrin Göbel, Aczel Regino García Ríos, Ruchi Garg, Aleksandra Gawlik, Simone Gilardoni, Tudor Glodariu, Isabel Maria Ferro Gonçalves, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Erich Griesmayer, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, Frank Gunsing, Hideo Harada, Stephan Heinitz, Jan Heyse, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, Franz Käppeler, Yacine Kadi, David Kahl, Antigoni Kalamara, Pavel Kavrigin, Atsushi Kimura, Nikolay Kivel, Michael Kokkoris, Milan Krtička, Cem Deniz Kurtulgil, Esther Leal Cidoncha, Helmut Leeb, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, Sergio Lo Meo, Sarah Jane Lonsdale, Daniela Macina, Justyna Marganiec, Trinitario Martı́nez, Alessandro Masi, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Annamaria Mazzone, Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Alberto Mengoni, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, Agatino Musumarra, Alexandru Negret, Ralf Nolte, Andreea Oprea, Nikolas Patronis, Andreas Pavlik, Jarosław Perkowski, José Ignacio Porras Sánchez, Javier Praena, José Manuel Quesada Molina, Désirée Radeck, Thomas Rauscher, René Reifarth, Carlo Rubbia, James A. Ryan, Marta Sabateé-Gilarte, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Dorothea Schumann, Pavel V. Sedyshev, Alastair Gavin Smith, Nikolay V. Sosnin, Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Giuseppe Tagliente, Jose Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Laurent Tassan-Got, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Rosa Vlastou, Anton Wallner, Stephen J. Warren, Christina Weiß, Philip John Woods, Tobias Wright, Petar Žugec

• The slow neutron capture process (s-process) is responsible for producing about half of the elemental abundances heavier than iron in the universe. Neutron capture cross sections on stable isotopes are a key nuclear physics input for s-process studies. The 72Ge(n, γ) cross section has an important influence on production of isotopes between Ge and Zr during s-process in massive stars and therefore experimental data are urgently required. 72Ge(n, γ) was measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF (CERN) for the first time at stellar energies. The measurement was performed using an enriched 72GeO2 sample at a flight path of 185m with a set of liquid scintillation detectors (C6D6). The motivation, experiment and current status of the data analysis are reported.