miniBELEN is a modular and transportable neutron moderated counter with a nearly flat neutron detection efficiency up to 10 MeV. Modularity implies that the moderator can be reassembled in different ways in order to obtain different types of response. The detector has been developed in the context of the Measurement of Alpha Neutron Yields (MANY) collaboration, which is a scientific effort aiming to carry out measurements of (alpha,n) production yields, reaction cross-sections and neutron energy spectra. In this work we present and discuss several configurations of the miniBELEN detector. The experimental validation of the efficiency calculations using 252Cf sources and the measurement of the 27Al(alpha,n)30P reaction is also presented.
@article{arxiv.2304.07308,
title = {miniBELEN: a modular neutron counter for (alpha,n) reactions},
author = {N Mont-Geli and A Tarifeño-Saldivia and L M Fraile and S Viñals and A Perea and M Pallàs and G Cortés and E Nácher and J L Tain and V Alcayne and A Algora and J Balibrea-Correa and J Benito and M J G Borge and J A Briz and F Calviño and D Cano-Ott and A De Blas and C Domingo-Pardo and B Fernández and R Garcia and G García and J Gómez-Camacho and E M González-Romero and C Guerrero and J Lerendegui-Marco and M Llanos and T Martínez and E Mendoza and J R Murias and S E A Orrigo and A Pérez de Rada and V Pesudo and J Plaza and J M Quesada and A Sánchez and V Sánchez-Tembleque and R Santorelli and O Tengblad and J M Udías and D Villamarín},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07308},
year = {2023}
}
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15th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2022)