Electronic detectors for the study of /sup 8/B solar neutrinos (with sensitivity to energy and direction)
The statistical requirement for any directional /sup 8/B solar neutrino experiment with an initially large background to signal ratio (about 1000) indicates the need for extremely large detectors. However, this dector scale can be decreased substantially if the detector mass can be made radioactively clean so that only external backgrounds remain. Then the detector can be operated in a self-shielding mode. Among a number of detector options, the water Cherenkov approach being used in the search for proton decay satisfies these requirements. With the neutrino deuteron reaction via the use of heavy water rather than light water, the background to signal ratio can be further improved and one can demonstrate observation of the /sup 8/B solar neutrino much before one can demonstrate its directionality.
- Research Organization:
- Dept. of Physics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717
- OSTI ID:
- 5729971
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8408132-
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 126:1; Conference: Conference on solar neutrinos and neutrino astronomy, Lead, SD, USA, 23 Aug 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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