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Petar Žugec, Massimo Barbagallo, Nicola Colonna, Damir Bosnar, Sebastian Altstadt, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Vicente Bécares, František Bečvář, Fabio Belloni, Eric Berthoumieux, Jonathan Billowes, Vittorio Boccone, Markus Brugger, Marco Calviani, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Daniel Cano-Ott, Carlos Carrapiço, Francesco Cerutti, Enrico Chiaveri, Michael Chin, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Maria Diakaki, César Domingo-Pardo, Rugard Dressler, Ignacio Durán, Nataliia Dzysiuk, Christos Eleftheriadis, Alfredo Ferrari, Kevin Fraval, Srinivasan Ganesan, Aczel Regino García Ríos, Giuseppe Giubrone, María Belén Gómez Hornillos, Isabel Maria Ferro Gonçalves, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Erich Griesmayer, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, Frank Gunsing, Perumal Gurusamy, Stephan Heinitz, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, Yacine Kadi, Franz Käppeler, Dimitri Karadimos, Nikolay Kivel, Paul Koehler, Michael Kokkoris, Milan Krtička, Jiří Kroll, Christoph Langer, Claudia Lederer, Helmut Leeb, Lou Sai Leong, Sergio Lo Meo, Roberto Losito, Athanasios Manousos, Justyna Marganiec, Trinitario Martínez, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Alberto Mengoni, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, Mihail Mirea, Willy Mondalaers, Carlos Paradela Dobarro, Andreas Pavlik, Jarosław Perkowski, Marco Pignatari, Arjan J. M. Plompen, Javier Praena, José Manuel Quesada Molina, Thomas Rauscher, René Reifarth, A. Riegov, Faustin Laurenţiu Roman, Carlo Rubbia, Raul Sarmento, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Stefan Schmidt, Dorothea Schumann, Giuseppe Tagliente, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Diego Tarrío Vilas, Laurent Tassan-Got, Andrea Tsinganis, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Roberto Versaci, Mark J. Vermeulen, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Rosa Vlastou, Anton Wallner, Timothy Ware, Mario Weigand, Christina Weiß, Tobias Wright

• The neutron capture cross section of 58Ni was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN, from 27 meV to 400 keV neutron energy. Special care has been taken to identify all the possible sources of background, with the so-called neutron background obtained for the first time using high-precision GEANT4 simulations. The energy range up to 122 keV was treated as the resolved resonance region, where 51 resonances were identified and analyzed by a multilevel R-matrix code SAMMY. Above 122 keV the code SESH was used in analyzing the unresolved resonance region of the capture yield. Maxwellian averaged cross sections were calculated in the temperature range of kT = 5 – 100 keV, and their astrophysical implications were investigated.