New Tools for Solving the Solar-Neutrino Problem

R. S. Raghavan, Sandip Pakvasa, and B. A. Brown
Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1801 – Published 6 October 1986
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Abstract

Neutrino (ν) excitation of nuclear levels (NUEX) via neutral currents is shown to be crucially important to the solar-ν problem as a method of detecting ν's regardless of flavor. We examine B11, Ar40, and Cl35 as NUEX targets. The B11 system offers means for concurrent solar-ν spectroscopy by NUEX and by charged-current νe capture with a set of differing thresholds. It promises a self-contained solution to the solar-ν problem as well as key probes for revealing the structure of resonant flavor and nonflavor ν oscillations in the sun. This approach may be feasible in an ICARUS-type underground experiment.

  • Received 26 June 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1801

©1986 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

R. S. Raghavan

  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

Sandip Pakvasa

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

B. A. Brown

  • Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

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Vol. 57, Iss. 14 — 6 October 1986

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