https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329001003
Commissioning of miniBELEN-10A, a moderated neutron counter with a flat efficiency for thick-target neutron yields measurements
1 Institut de Tècniques Energètiques (INTE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), E-08028, Barcelona, Spain
2 Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC – Univ. Valencia (UV), E-46071, Valencia, Spain
3 Grupo de Física Nuclear (GFN) and IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), E-28040, Madrid, Spain
4 Centro de Micro-Análisis de Materiales (CMAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), E-28049, Madrid, Spain
5 Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM), CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
6 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), E-28040, Madrid, Spain
7 Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla (US), E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
8 Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA), Universidad de Sevilla (US) - J. Andalucía - CSIC, E-41092, Sevilla, Spain
* e-mail: nil.mont@upc.edu
* e-mail: atarisal@ific.uv.es
Published online: 8 December 2023
miniBELEN-10A is a modular and transportable moderated neutron counter with a nearly flat detection efficiency up to 8 MeV. The detector was designed to carry out measurements of (α, n) reactions in the context of the Measurement of Alpha Neutron Yields (MANY) project. In this work we present the results of the commissioning of miniBELEN-10A using the relatively well-known thick-target neutron yields from 27Al(α, n)30P.
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