  We report on the possibility of using Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) to
detect the scintillation light from neutron conversion in ZnS:6LiF
scintillators. The light is collected by wavelength-shifting fibers embedded
into the scintillator. The difficulty of extracting neutron signals in the
presence of high dark count rates of the SiPMs is addressed by applying a
dedicated processing algorithm to analyze the temporal distribution of the SiPM
pulses. With a single-channel prototype detection unit we demonstrate a very
good neutron signal extraction at SiPM dark count rates of about 1 MHz.
