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Pericas, Raimon (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
The calculations that allow the operating license of the nuclear reactors are usually made using conservative methods. This conservatism, often excessive, limits the actual capabilities of the industry to increase energy ...
Coello de Portugal - Martínez Vázquez, Jaime Maria (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
In order to increase the performance of particle colliders, it is crucial to make the beam sizes at the collision points as small as possible. This causes an increase of the beam size in the region surrounding the collision ...
Casanovas Hoste, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
Neutron capture cross sections are fundamental in the study of the slow neutron capture process of nucleosynthesis, also known as the s-process, which produces half of the observed solar system abundances of elements heavier ...