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Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Daniel Cano-Ott, Sebastian Altstadt, Samuel Andriamonje, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Javier Balibrea Correa, Vicente Bécares, Massimo Barbagallo, František Bečvář, Fabio Belloni, B. Berthier, Eric Berthoumieux, Jonathan Billowes, Vittorio Boccone, Damir Bosnar, Markus Brugger, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Marco Calviani, Carlos Carrapiço, Francesco Cerutti, Enrico Chiaveri, Michael Chin, Nicola Colonna, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Maria Diakaki, Iris Dillmann, César Domingo-Pardo, Ignacio Durán, Nataliia Dzysiuk, Christos Eleftheriadis, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, Alfredo Ferrari, Kevin Fraval, Valter Furman, María Belén Gómez Hornillos, Srinivasan Ganesan, Aczel Regino García Ríos, Giuseppe Giubrone, Isabel Maria Ferro Gonçalves, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Andrey Goverdovski, F. Gramegna, Erich Griesmayer, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, Frank Gunsing, Perumal Gurusamy, Tanja Heftrich, Stephan Heinitz, Álvaro Hernández Prieto, Jan Heyse, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, Franz Käppeler, Yacine Kadi, Dimitri Karadimos, Tatsuya Katabuchi, Vladimir Ketlerov, Vitaly Khryachkov, Paul Koehler, Michael Kokkoris, Jiří Kroll, Milan Krtička, Christos Lampoudis, Christoph Langer, Esther Leal Cidoncha, Claudia Lederer, Helmut Leeb, Lou Sai Leong, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, Mauro Licata, Roberto Losito, Athanasios Manousos, Justyna Marganiec, Trinitario Martı́nez, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, Alberto Mengoni, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, Mihail Mirea, Willy Mondelaers, Carlos Paradela Dobarro, Andreas Pavlik, Jarosław Perkowski, Arjan J. M. Plompen, Javier Praena, José Manuel Quesada Molina, Thomas Rauscher, René Reifarth, Albert Riego Pérez, Maria Soledad Robles Manzano, Faustin Laurenţiu Roman, Carlo Rubbia, James A. Ryan, Marta Sabaté-Gilarte, Raul Sarmento, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Stefan Schmidt, Dorothea Schumann, Pavel V. Sedyshev, Giuseppe Tagliente, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Diego Tarrío Vilas, Laurent Tassan-Got, Andrea Tsinganis, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Mark J. Vermeulen, Roberto Versaci, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Rosa Vlastou, Anton Wallner, Timothy Ware, Mario Weigand, Christian Weiss, Tobias Wright, Petar Žugec

• New neutron cross section measurements of minor actinides have been performed recently in order to reduce the uncertainties in the evaluated data, which is important for the design of advanced nuclear reactors and, in particular, for determining their performance in the transmutation of nuclear waste. We have measured the 241Am(n,γ) cross section at the n_TOF facility between 0.2 eV and 10 keV with a BaF2 Total Absorption Calorimeter, and the analysis of the measurement has been recently concluded. Our results are in reasonable agreement below 20 eV with the ones published by C. Lampoudis et al. in 2013, who reported a 22% larger capture cross section up to 110 eV compared to experimental and evaluated data published before. Our results also indicate that the 241Am(n,γ) cross section is underestimated in the present evaluated libraries between 20 eV and 2 keV by 25%, on average, and up to 35% for certain evaluations and energy ranges.