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| Title | Solar Neutrinos | |
| Author(s) | Davis, R. Jr.; Harmer, D. S. | |
| Publication Date | December 1964 | |
| Report Number | BNL-9093 | |
| Unique Identifier | ACC0067 | |
| Other Numbers | CONF-641214-2; OSTI ID: 4620355 | |
| Research Org | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, N.Y. | |
| Contract No | AT(30-2)-Gen-16 | |
| Sponsoring Org | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) | |
| Other Information | 2nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Austin, Tex.; Dec 15-19, 1964 | |
| Subject | Physics; Cosmic Radiation; Argon 37; Capture; Chlorine 37; Conference; Configuration; Cosmic Radiation; Cross Sections; Electrons; Ethylene; Measured Values; Neutrinos; Nuclear Reactions; Numericals; Organic Chlorine Compounds; Radiation Detectors; Radiations; Sun; Texas; USA; Volume; Weight | |
| Keywords | Elementary Particles | |
| Related Web Pages | Raymond Davis, Jr., Solar Neutrinos, and the Solar Neutrino Problem | |
| Abstract | The prospect of studying the solar energy generation process directly by observing the solar neutrino radiation has been discussed for many years. The main difficulty with this approach is that the sun emits predominantly low energy neutrinos, and detectors for observing low fluxes of low energy neutrinos have not been developed. However, experimental techniques have been developed for observing neutrinos, and one can foresee that in the near future these techniques will be improved sufficiently in sensitivity to observe solar neutrinos. At the present several experiments are being designed and hopefully will be operating in the next year or so. We will discuss an experiment based upon a neutrino capture reaction that is the inverse of the electron-capture radioactive decay of argon-37. The method depends upon exposing a large volume of a chlorine compound, removing the radioactive argon-37 and observing the characteristic decay in a small low-level counter. | |
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