Žugec, P.Colonna, N.Bosnar, D.Ventura, A.Mengoni, A.Altstadt, SAndrzejewski, J.Audouin, L.Barbagallo, M.Bécares, V.Bečvář, F.Wallner, A.Ware, T.Weigand, M.Weiß, C.Wright, T.Belloni, F.Berthoumieux, E.Billowes, J.Boccone, V.Brugger, M.Calviani, M.Calviño, F.Cano-Ott, D.Carrapiço, C.Cerutti, F.Chiaveri, E.Chin, M.Cortés, G.Cortés-Giraldo, M. A.Cosentino, L.Diakaki, M.Domingo-Pardo, C.Dressler, R.Duran, I.Eleftheriadis, C.Ferrari, A.Finocchiaro, P.Fraval, K.Ganesan, S.García, A. R.Giubrone, G.Gómez-Hornillos, M. B.Gonçalves, I. F.González-Romero, E.Griesmayer, E.Guerrero, C.Gunsing, F.Gurusamy, P.Heinitz, S.Jenkins, D. G.Jericha, E.Käppeler, F.Karadimos, D.Kivel, N.Kokkoris, M.Krtička, M.Kroll, J.Langer, C.Lederer, C.Leeb, H.Leong, L. S.Lo Meo, S.Losito, R.Manousos, A.Marganiec, J.Martínez, T.Massimi, C.Mastinu, P.Mastromarco, M.Mendoza, E.Milazzo, P. M.Mingrone, F.Mirea, M.Mondalaers, W.Musumarra, A.Paradela, C.Pavlik, A.Perkowski, J.Plompen, A.Praena, J.Quesada, J.Rauscher, T.Reifarth, R.Riego, A.Roman, F.Rubbia, C.Sarmento, R.Saxena, A.Schillebeeckx, P.Schmidt, S.Schumann, D.Tagliente, G.Tain, J. L.Tarrío, D.Tassan-Got, L.Tsinganis, A.Valenta, S.Vannini, G.Variale, V.Vaz, P.Versaci, R.Vermeulen, M. J.Vlachoudis, V.Vlastou, R.2016-09-292016-09-291434-6001http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109106The integral measurement of the ¹²C(n, p)¹²B reaction was performed at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN. The total number of ¹²B nuclei produced per neutron pulse of the n_TOF beam was determined using the activation technique in combination with a time-of-flight technique. The cross section is integrated over the n_TOF neutron energy spectrum from reaction threshold at 13.6MeV to 10GeV. Having been measured up to 1GeV on basis of the ²³⁵U(n, f ) reaction, the neutron energy spectrum above 200MeV has been re-evaluated due to the recent extension of the cross section reference for this particular reaction, which is otherwise considered a standard up to 200MeV. The results from the dedicated GEANT4 simulations have been used to evaluate the neutron flux from 1GeV up to 10GeV. The experimental results related to the ¹²C(n, p)¹²B reaction are compared with the evaluated cross sections from major libraries and with the predictions of different GEANT4 models, which mostly underestimate the 12B production. On the contrary, a good reproduction of the integral cross section derived from measurements is obtained with TALYS-1.6 calculations, with optimized parameters.This research was funded by the European Atomic Energy Community’s (Euratom) Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011 under the Project CHANDA (Grant No. 605203); by the Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN) grant UMO- 2012/04/M/ST2/00700; and by the Croatian Science Foundation under Project No. 1680.© Società Italiana di Fisica / Springer-Verlag 20162016-04-2210.1140/epja/i2016-16101-7