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César Domingo-Pardo, Victor Babiano Suarez, Javier Balibrea Correa, Luis Caballero Ontanaya, Ion Ladarescu, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Adrià Casanovas Hoste, Alejandro Segarra, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, María de los Ángeles Millán Callado, José Manuel Quesada Molina, María Teresa Rodríguez González, Oliver Aberle, Victor Alcayne, Simone Amaducci, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Michael Bacak, Massimo Barbagallo, Samuel Bennett, Eric Berthoumieux, Damir Bosnar, Adam S. Brown, Maurizio Busso, Manuel Caamaño, Marco Calviani, Daniel Cano-Ott, Francesco Cerutti, Enrico Chiaveri, Nicola Colonna, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Luigi Cosentino, Sergio Cristallo, Lucia Anna Damone, Paul John Davies, Maria Diakaki, Mirco Dietz, Rugard Dressler, Quentin Ducasse, 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, Kathrin Göbel, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Frank Gunsing, Jan Heyse, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, U. Jiri, Arnd Rudolf Junghans, Yacine Kadi, Franz Käppeler, Atsushi Kimura, Ingrid Knapová, Michael Kokkoris, Yuri N. Kopatch, Milan Krtička, Cem Deniz Kurtulgil, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Sarah-Jane Lonsdale, Daniela Macina, Alice Manna, Trinitario Martı́nez, Alessandro Masi, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Annamaria Mazzone, Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Alberto Mengoni, Veatriki Michalopoulou, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, Javier Moreno-Soto, Agatino Musumarra, Alexandru Negret, Francisco Ogállar Ruiz, Andreea Oprea, Nikolas Patronis, Andreas Pavlik, Jarosław Perkowski, Cristina Petrone, Luciano Piersanti, Elisa Pirovano, José Ignacio Porras Sánchez, Javier Praena, Diego Ramos Doval, René Reifarth, Dimitri Rochman, Carlo Rubbia, Marta Sabaté-Gilarte, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Dorothea Schumann, Adhitya Sekhar, Alastair Gavin Smith, Nikolay V. Sosnin, Peter Sprung, Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Giuseppe Tagliente, Laurent Tassan-Got, Benedikt Thomas, Pablo Torres-Sánchez, Andrea Tsinganis, Sebastian Urlaß, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Diego Vescovi, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Rosa Vlastou, Anton Wallner, Philip John Woods, Tobias J. Wright, Petar Žugec

• The idea of slow-neutron capture nucleosynthesis formulated in 1957 triggered a tremendous experimental effort in different laboratories worldwide to measure the relevant nuclear physics input quantities, namely (n,γ) cross sections over the stellar temperature range (from few eV up to several hundred keV) for most of the isotopes involved from Fe up to Bi. A brief historical review focused on total energy detectors will be presented to illustrate how, advances in instrumentation have led, over the years, to the assessment and discovery of many new aspects of s-process nucleosynthesis and to the progressive refinement of theoretical models of stellar evolution. A summary will be presented on current efforts to develop new detection concepts, such as the Total-Energy Detector with γ-ray imaging capability (i-TED). The latter is based on the simultaneous combination of Compton imaging with neutron time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, in order to achieve a superior level of sensitivity and selectivity in the measurement of stellar neutron capture rates.