  The response of the liquid scintillator array Nordball to neutrons in the
energy range 1.5 < T_n < 10 MeV has been measured by time of flight using a
252Cf fission source. Fission fragments were detected by means of a thin-film
plastic scintillator. The measured differential and integral neutron detection
efficiencies agree well with predictions of a Monte Carlo simulation of the
detector which models geometry accurately and incorporates the measured,
non-linear proton light output as a function of energy. The ability of the
model to provide systematic corrections to photoneutron cross sections,
measured by Nordball at low energy, is tested in a measurement of the two-body
deuteron photodisintegration cross section in the range E_gamma=14-18 MeV.
After correction the present 2H(gamma,n)p measurements agree well with a
published evaluation of the large body of 2H(gamma,p)n data.
