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Hurst, G.S.; Allman, S.L.; Chen, C.H.; Kramer, S.D.; Thomson, J.O.; Cleveland, B.
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Physics; Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)1985
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Physics; Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)1985
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[en] Several ingenious solutions have been offered for the solar neutrino problem - a defect in the solar model, the appearance of a new type of neutrino physics, the sun is no longer burning, etc. The range of these proffered solutions stresses the need for a new experiment to study the sun. The modern pulsed laser now makes possible a new solar neutrino test which examines an independent neutrino source in the sun. A recently proposed experiment would use the reaction 81Br(nu,e-)81Kr to measure the flux of 7Be neutrinos from the sun. When 7Be decays by electron capture to make 7Li, a neutrino is emitted at 0.862 MeV and the flux of these on the earth is about 4 x 109 cm-2 s-1, according to the standard model. Therefore, an experiment based on 81Br(nu,e-)81Kr which is sensitive to these lower energy neutrinos would be of fundamental importance. To first order, the chlorine experiment detects the 8B neutrinos while bromine detects the much more abundant 7Be neutrino source. In practice, the proposed bromine experiment would be very similar to the chlorine radiochemical experiment, except that 81Kr with a half-life of 2 x 105 years cannot be counted by decay methods. With an experiment of about the same volume as the chlorine experiment (380 m3) filled with CH2Br2, the model predicts about 2 atoms of 81Kr per day. The bromine experiment depends entirely on the RIS method, implemented with pulsed lasers, for its success. 10 refs., 3 figs
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May 1985; 8 p; 7. international conference on laser spectroscopy; Maui, HI (USA); 24-28 Jun 1985; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01 as DE85016380
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