Commissioning of miniBELEN-10A, a moderated neutron counter with a flat efficiency for thick-target neutron yields measurements

N. Mont-Geli; A. Tarifeño-Saldivia; L.M. Fraile; S. Viñals; A. Perea; M. Pallàs; G. Cortés; G. Garcia; E. Nácher; J.L. Tain; V. Alcayne; O. Alonso-Sañudo; A. Algora; J. Balibrea-Correa; J. Benito; M.J.G. Borge; J.A. Briz; F. Calviño; D. Cano-Ott; A. De Blas; C. Domingo-Pardo; B. Fernández; R. Garcia; J. Gómez-Camacho; E.M. González-Romero; C. Guerrero; J. Lerendegui-Marco; M. Llanos; T. Martínez; V. Martínez-Nouvilas; E. Mendoza; J.R. Murias; S.E.A. Orrigo; A. Pérez de Rada; V. Pesudo; J. Plaza; J.M. Quesada; A. Sánchez; V. Sánchez-Tembleque; R. Santorelli; O. Tengblad; J.M. Udías; D. Villamarín

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202329001003

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EPJ Web of Conf., 290 (2023) 01003

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Issue		EPJ Web of Conf. Volume 290, 2023 European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC 2022)


Article Number		01003
Number of page(s)		4
Section		P1 Accelerators and Instrumentation
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329001003
Published online		08 December 2023

EPJ Web of Conferences 290, 01003 (2023)
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

N. Mont-Geli¹^*, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia²^**, L.M. Fraile³, S. Viñals⁴, A. Perea⁵, M. Pallàs¹, G. Cortés¹, G. Garcia⁴, E. Nácher², J.L. Tain², V. Alcayne⁶, O. Alonso-Sañudo³, A. Algora², J. Balibrea-Correa², J. Benito³, M.J.G. Borge⁵, J.A. Briz⁵, F. Calviño¹, D. Cano-Ott⁶, A. De Blas¹, C. Domingo-Pardo², B. Fernández⁷^,8, R. Garcia¹, J. Gómez-Camacho⁷^,8, E.M. González-Romero⁶, C. Guerrero⁷^,8, J. Lerendegui-Marco², M. Llanos³, T. Martínez⁶, V. Martínez-Nouvilas³, E. Mendoza⁶, J.R. Murias³, S.E.A. Orrigo², A. Pérez de Rada⁶, V. Pesudo⁶, J. Plaza⁶, J.M. Quesada⁷, A. Sánchez⁶, V. Sánchez-Tembleque³, R. Santorelli⁶, O. Tengblad⁶, J.M. Udías³ and D. Villamarín⁶

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

Abstract

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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