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No correct guesses yet... none even close 
Hint: One of these layers is boron coated!
Definitely getting warmer!
Hint: It is not a "counter"
Hint:
It's made to measure one kind of radiation selectively in the presence of another kind of radiation
@gigabecquerel is it supposed to become hot in vacuum and then emit some atoms / ions in small quantities?
@wolf480pl Nope, not at all!
@gigabecquerel (not sure if these binsearch-type questions are allowed but) is its purpose to emit something?
@wolf480pl Emitting particles internally is part of its function, but not its purpose
@gigabecquerel ok now I don't know if massless- (photons) and pseudo- (phonons) particles count as particles...
But assuming they do,
if emitting particles is not the purpose of this device, then maybe absorbing particles is?
Is this a type of detector?
@wolf480pl Oh no no we're talking about real, massive particles here.
It is a detector!
@gigabecquerel people were guessing 16h ago that it's a neutron detector, but you said 40min ago that no correct guesses, so it must be a something-else-detector.
Do the particles it's supposed to detect have a non-zero electric charge?
@wolf480pl I never said it's not a neutron detector, just, that there were no correct guesses so far
@gigabecquerel uhh so it could be a specific type of neutron detector... I don't know enough about neutron detectors to be able to know what types exist
@wolf480pl The type is the interesting part!
Some clever engineering went into it to detect neutrons under the conditions it does
@gigabecquerel that's clever.
Are there other particles that a regular neutron detector woukd confuse for neutrons?