What Solar Neutrino Problem? Measuring the solar neutrino flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Phase NCD

por Adam Cox (University of Washington, Seattle)

martes 29 may. 2007 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

An array of 3He proportional counters was installed in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) to measure flux of neutrinos from the decay of 8B in the solar p-p chain. The proportional counters detected thermalized neutrons liberated in the neutral-current interaction \nu + d -> n + p + \nu, and are called Neutral Current Detectors (NCD). The motivation for SNO and the NCDs, the NCD experiment and the current status of our analysis will be discussed.