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Annamaria Mazzone, Sergio Cristallo, Oliver Aberle, Gery Alaerts, Victor Alcayne, Simone Amaducci, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Victor Babiano Suarez, Michael Bacak, Massimo Barbagallo, Vicente Bécares, František Bečvář, Giorgio Bellia, Eric Berthoumieux, Jonathan Billowes, Damir Bosnar, Adam S. Brown, Maurizio Busso, Manuel Caamaño, Luis Caballero Ontanaya, Marco Calviani, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Daniel Cano-Ott, Adrià Casanovas Hoste, Donato Maurizio Castelluccio, Francesco Cerutti, Yonghao Chen, Enrico Chiaveri, Giulia Clai, Nicola Colonna, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Luigi Cosentino, Lucia Anna Damone, Maria Diakaki, Mirco Dietz, César Domingo-Pardo, Rugard Dressler, Emmeric Dupont, Ignacio Durán, Zinovia Eleme, Beatriz Fernández Domínguez, Alfredo Ferrari, Isabel Maria Ferro Gonçalves, Paolo Finocchiaro, Valter Furman, Ruchi Garg, Aleksandra Gawlik, Simone Gilardoni, Tudor Glodariu, Kathrin Göbel, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, Frank Gunsing, Stephan Heinitz, Jan Heyse, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, Yacine Kadi, Franz Käppeler, Atsushi Kimura, Nikolay Kivel, Michael Kokkoris, Yuri N. Kopatch, Stefan Kopecky, Milan Krtička, Cem Deniz Kurtulgil, Ion Ladarescu, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, Sergio Lo Meo, Sarah-Jane Lonsdale, Daniela Macina, Alice Manna, Trinitario Martínez, Alessandro Masi, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, Francesca Matteucci, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Alberto Mengoni, Veatriki Michalopoulou, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, Riccardo Mucciola, Agatino Musumarra, Alexandru Negret, Ralf Nolte, Francisco Ogállar Ruiz, Andreea Oprea, Nikolas Patronis, Andreas Pavlik, Jarosław Perkowski, Luciano Piersanti, José Ignacio Porras Sánchez, Javier Praena, José Manuel Quesada Molina, Désirée Radeck, Diego Ramos Doval, René Reifarth, Dimitri Rochman, Carlo Rubbia, Marta Sabaté-Gilarte, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Dorothea Schumann, Alastair Gavin Smith, Nikolay V. Sosnin, Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Giuseppe Tagliente, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Zeynep Talip, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Laurent Tassan-Got, Pablo Torres-Sánchez, Andrea Tsinganis, Jiri Ulrich, Sebastian Urlaß, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Diego Vescovi, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Rosa Vlastou, Anton Wallner, Philip John Woods, Ruud Wynants, Tobias J. Wright, Petar Žugec

• The neutron capture cross section of 154Gd was measured from 1 eV to 300 keV in the experimental area located 185 m from the CERN n_TOF neutron spallation source, using a metallic sample of gadolinium, enriched to 67% in 154Gd. The capture measurement, performed with four C6D6 scintillation detectors, has been complemented by a transmission measurement performed at the GELINA time-of-flight facility (JRC-Geel), thus minimising the uncertainty related to sample composition. An accurate Maxwellian averaged capture cross section (MACS) was deduced over the temperature range of interest for s process nucleosynthesis modelling. We report a value of 880(50) mb for the MACS at kT = 30 keV, significantly lower compared to values available in literature. The new adopted 154Gd(n,γ) cross section reduces the discrepancy between observed and calculated solar s-only isotopic abundances predicted by s-process nucleosynthesis models.