  The e_LiBANS project aims at creating accelerator based compact neutron
facilities for diverse interdisciplinary applications. After the successful
setting up and characterization of a thermal neutron source based on a medical
electron LINAC, a similar assembly for epithermal neutrons has been developed.
The project is based on an Elekta 18 MV LINAC coupled with a
photoconverter-moderator system which deploys the ({\gamma},n) photonuclear
reaction to convert a bremsstrahlung photon beam into a neutron field. This
communication describes the development of novel diagnostics to qualify the
thermal and epithermal neutron fields that have been produced. In particular, a
proof of concept for the use of silicon carbide photodiodes as a thermal
neutron rate detector is presented.
