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| Title | Search for Neutrinos from the Sun | |
| Author(s) | Davis, Raymond Jr. | |
| Publication Date | September 1968 | |
| Report Number | BNL--12981 | |
| Unique Identifier | ACC0065 | |
| Other Numbers | CONF-680936--1; OSTI ID: 4811423 | |
| Research Org | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, N.Y. | |
| Sponsoring Org | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) | |
| Other Information | Meeting on Neutrino Physics, Moscow, USSR; September 1968 | |
| Subject | N26110 -- Instrumentation -- Radiation Detection Instruments -- General Detectors & Monitors; Activation; Argon 37; Capture; Chemical Radiation Detectors; Chlorine Compounds; Chlorine 37; Design; Detection; Ethylene; Neutrinos; Nuclear Reactions; Performance; Sun; Uses | |
| Keywords | Sun -- neutrino flux from, system using neutrino capture (nu,e{sup -}) by chlorine-37 for measuring; Radiation Detectors, Chemical -- design and performance of tetrachloroethylene, for measuring solar neutrinos by (nu,e{sup -}) reactions; Radiation Detectors, Activation -- design and performance of tetrachloroethylene, for measuring solar neutrinos by (nu,e{sup -}) reactions; Neutrinos -- detection of solar, system using neutrino capture (nu,e{sup -}) by chlorine-37 for; Ethylene, Tetrachloro- -- use for measuring solar neutrinos by reactions (nu,e{sup -}) with chlorine-37; Astrophysics; Cosmic Radiation; Chemistry (Radio- and Radiation) | |
| Related Web Pages | Raymond Davis, Jr., Solar Neutrinos, and the Solar Neutrino Problem | |
| Abstract | A solar neutrino detection system has been built to observe the neutrino radiation from the sun. The detector uses 3,900,000 liters of tetrachloroethylene as the neutrino capturing medium. Argon is removed from the liquid by sweeping with helium gas, and counted in a small low level proportional counter. The recovery efficiency of the system was tested with Ar{sup 36} by the isotope dilution method, and also with Ar{sup 37} produced in the liquid by fast neutrons. These tests demonstrate that Ar{sup 37} produced in the liquid by neutrino capture can be removed with a 95 percent efficiency by the procedure used. | |
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