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Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Andrea Tsinganis, Maria Diakaki, Nicola Colonna, Michael Kokkoris, Rosa Vlastou, Antigoni Kalamara, Peter Schillebeeckx, Laurent Tassan-Got, Petar Žugec, Marta Sabaté-Gilarte, Nikolas Patronis, Zinovia Eleme, Jan Heyse, 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, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Luigi Cosentino, Lucia Anna Damone, 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, 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, David Jenkins, Erwin Jericha, Franz Käppeler, Yacine Kadi, Pavel Kavrigin, Atsushi Kimura, Nikolay Kivel, Ingrid Knapová, Milan Krtička, Cem Deniz Kurtulgil, Esther Leal Cidoncha, Claudia Lederer, Helmut Leeb, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, Sergio Lo Meo, Sarah Jane Lonsdale, Daniela Macina, Alice Manna, 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, 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, Alok Saxena, Dorothea Schumann, Pavel V. Sedyshev, Alastair Gavin Smith, Nikolay V. Sosnin, Giuseppe Tagliente, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Stanislav Valenta, Gianni Vannini, Vincenzo Variale, Pedro Vaz, Alberto Ventura, Diego Vescovi, Vasilis Vlachoudis, Anton Wallner, Stephen J. Warren, Christina Weiß, Philip John Woods, Tobias Wright

• Neutron-induced fission cross sections of isotopes involved in the nuclear fuel cycle are vital for the design and safe operation of advanced nuclear systems. Such experimental data can also provide additional constraints for the adjustment of nuclear model parameters used in the evaluation process, resulting in the further development of fission models. In the present work, the 237Np(n,f) cross section was studied at the EAR2 vertical beam-line at CERN's n_TOF facility, over a wide range of neutron energies, from meV to MeV, using the time-of-flight technique and a set-up based on Micromegas detectors, in an attempt to provide accurate experimental data. Preliminary results in the 200 keV – 14 MeV neutron energy range as well as the experimental procedure, including a description of the facility and the data handling and analysis, will be presented.