Neutrino astronomy on the moon---practical considerations

Conference · Tue Mar 20 04:00:00 EST 1990 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA)

OSTI ID:7098152

Cherry, M L ^[1]

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1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (US)

Observations of neutrinos from extraterrestrial sources offer the opportunity to study astrophysical regions which are otherwise unobservable, and provide (in principle) an extremely clean probe of high energy hadronic acceleration processes. Detectors must have low background and high sensitivity. Due to the absence of an atmosphere, the moon provides a very low background environment. However, in order to compute with proposed earth-based experiments, the mass and area required are large.

• OSTI ID: 7098152
• Report Number(s): CONF-8911161--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Journal Volume: 203:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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