%0 Conference Paper
%A Mont-Geli, N.
%A Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.
%A Fraile Prieto, Luis Mario
%A Viñals, S.
%A Perea, A.
%A Pallàs, M.
%A Cortés, G.
%A Briz Monago, José Antonio
%A Udías Moinelo, José Manuel
%A Villamarín, D.
%T miniBELEN: A modular neutron counter for (𝜶, 𝒏) reactions
%D 2023
%@ 2100-014X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134956
%X 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 m 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 Cf-252 sources and the measurement of the (27)A1(alpha, n)P-30 reaction is also presented.
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