Development of a compact 20 MeV gamma-ray source for energy calibration at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:406174

Poon, A W.P.; Browne, M C; Robertson, R G.H. ^[1]; Waltham, C E ^[2]; Kherani, N P ^[3]

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1. Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States). Nuclear Physics Lab.
2. British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). Dept. of Physics
3. Ontario Hydro Technologies, Toronto, ON (Canada)

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a real-time neutrino detector under construction near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. SNO collaboration is developing various calibration sources in order to determine the detector response completely. This paper describes briefly the calibration sources being developed by the collaboration. One of these, a compact {sup 3}H(p,{gamma}){sup 4}He source, which produces 20-MeV {gamma}-rays, is described.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States). Nuclear Physics Lab.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG06-90ER40537
• OSTI ID: 406174
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40537-91; CONF-9504276-1; ON: DE96015186
• Resource Relation: Conference: Particles and Cosmology conference, Kabardino-Balkaria (Russian Federation), 20-26 Apr 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
SOLAR NEUTRINOS
SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY
CALIBRATION
GAMMA SOURCES