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Victor Alcayne, Atsushi Kimura, Emilio Mendoza Cembranos, Daniel Cano-Ott, Trinitario Martı́nez, Oliver Aberle, Józef Andrzejewski, Laurent Audouin, Vicente Bécares, Michael Bacak, Massimo Barbagallo, František Bečvář, Giorgio Bellia, Eric Berthoumieux, Jonathan Billowes, Damir Bosnar, Adam Brown, Maurizio Busso, Manuel Caamaño, Luis Caballero Ontanaya, Francisco Calviño Tavares, Marco Calviani, Adrià Casanovas Hoste, Francesco Cerutti, Yonghao Chen, Enrico Chiaveri, Nicola Colonna, Guillem Pere Cortés Rossell, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, Luigi Cosentino, Sergio Cristallo, Lucia Anna Damone, Maria Diakaki, Mirco Dietz, César Domingo-Pardo, Rugard Dressler, Emmeric Dupont, Ignacio Durán, Zinovia Eleme, Beatriz Fernández Domínguez, Alfredo Ferrari, Paolo Finocchiaro, Valter Furman, Kathrin Göbel, Aleksandra Gawlik, Simone Gilardoni, Tudor Glodariu, Isabel Maria Ferro Gonçalves, Enrique Miguel González Romero, Carlos Guerrero Sánchez, Frank Gunsing, Hideo Harada, Stephan Heinitz, Jan Heyse, David Jenkins, Franz Käppeler, Yacine Kadi, Tatsuya Katabuchi, Nikolay Kivel, Ingrid Knapová, Michael Kokkoris, Yuri N. Kopatch, Milan Krtička, Cem Deniz Kurtulgil, Ion Ladarescu, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Jorge Lerendegui-Marco, Sergio Lo Meo, Sarah Jane Lonsdale, Daniela Macina, Alice Manna, Alessandro Masi, Cristian Massimi, Pierfrancesco Mastinu, Mario Mastromarco, Francesca Matteucci, Emilio Andrea Maugeri, Annamaria Mazzone, Alberto Mengoni, Veatriki Michalopoulou, Paolo Maria Milazzo, Federica Mingrone, 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, Thomas Rauscher, René Reifarth, Dimitri Rochman, Marta Sabaté-Gilarte, Alok Saxena, Peter Schillebeeckx, Dorothea Schumann, S. Simone, Alastair Gavin Smith, Nikolay V. Sosnin, Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Giuseppe Tagliente, José Luis Taı́n Enríquez, T. Talip, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Laurent Tassan-Got, 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, Tobias Wright, Petar Žugec

• The neutron capture reactions of the 244Cm and 246Cm isotopes open the path for the formation of heavier Cm isotopes and heavier elements such as Bk and Cf in a nuclear reactor. In addition, both isotopes belong to the minor actinides with a large contribution to the decay heat and to the neutron emission in irradiated fuels. There are only two previous 244Cm and 246Cm capture cross section measurements: one in 1969 using a nuclear explosion [1] and the most recent data measured at J-PARC in 2010 [2]. The data for both isotopes are very scarce due to the difficulties in performing the measurements: high intrinsic activity of the samples and limited facilities capable of providing isotopically enriched samples. We have measured both neutron capture cross sections at the n_TOF Experimental Area 2 (EAR-2) with three C6 D6 detectors and also at Area 1 (EAR-1) with the TAC. Preliminary results assessing the quality and limitations (back-ground subtraction, measurement technique and counting statistics) of this new experimental datasets are presented and discussed.