Dear Referee,

We thank you for your careful review and valuable comments. Below, we address each point raised in your report.

We have now included in the manuscript the bias voltage used in the measurements, together with additional information on experimental uncertainties, such as the achieved energy resolution. Concerning the leakage current, with the experimental setup employed (ORTEC bias supply), its value was well below the minimum sensitivity of the instrument. In particular, the instrument precision is 10 nA, while the measured leakage current is on the order of 100 pA.

The assumed 10% energy resolution was intended as an initial estimate. We agree that further simulations could be performed to determine a more accurate value. A clarifying comment has now been added to the manuscript to explicitly state this assumption and its limitations.

We agree that a comparison of the SiC detector response with a reference detector would be highly valuable and is planned for future work. A preliminary attempt in this direction has already been carried out; irradiating a radiochromic dosimetry film together with our SiC device; however, the experimental setup used in that test was found to be inefficient. Furthermore, since the measurements were performed using a primary proton beam impinging on a LiF target, followed by the placement of a CH₂ plastic, a precise determination of the neutron flux was not possible in the present experiment.

Kind regards,
Alice Barbon