Measurement of the Pu-242(n, γ) cross section from thermal to 500 keV at the Budapest research reactor and CERN n_TOF-EAR1 facilities

This measurement has received funding from the EC FP7 Programme under the projects NEUTANDALUS (Grant No. 334315) and CHANDA (Grant No. 605203), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness projects FPA2013-45083-P, FPA2014-53290-C2-2-P and FPA2016-77689-C2-1-R and the V Plan Propio de Investigacion Programme from the University of Sevilla. Support from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), contract number 03NUK13A, is gratefully acknowledged.