10B and 6Li nuclear data measurements for incident neutron energies up to 3 MeV

Abstract We present experimental methods for the measurement of the 10B(n,α)7Li and the 6Li(n,t)4He reactions for neutron energies up to 3 MeV, and preliminary data for the 10B(n, α 0 )/10B(n, α 1 γ ) branching ratios. The experimental facilities were installed at GELINA and the Van de Graaff generator of the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurement of the European Commission. Our results show the need to investigate the MeV region for these reactions, since the ENDF/B-VII.1 evaluation agrees with our data up to 1.3 MeV and overestimates above this limit.