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DEVELOPING NEW SOLAR NEUTRINO DETECTORS
Pages 6-7

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... will be somewhat similar to the existing chlorine detector but, per target atom, is expected to have a counting rate 5 to 10 times larger [26~. A multi-module 100-ton iodine detector, with about one quarter the number of target atoms of the 615-ton chlorine detector, is now under construction in the Homestake mine near the present chlorine detector.
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... A crucial question that remains to be answered for the 5000-ton detector is whether an energy threshold as low as is required for solar neutrino research can be achieved. HERON Cold helium may be the purest material available; it offers the possibility of detecting very low energy depositions in either the liquid or the gaseous state.
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Key Terms

  • chlorine detector
  • standard solar
  • solar neutrino
  • liquid scintillator
  • neutrino energy

  • excited state
  • energy resolution
  • event reconstruction
  • iodine detector
  • incident neutrino

  • laboratory prototype
  • cross sections
  • solar neutrinos
  • crucial question
  • directly measure

  • mine near
  • borexino collaboration
  • recoil spectrum
  • includes experimenters
  • radiochemical detector

  • laboratory tests
  • chamber technique
  • recoil electrons
  • directly produced
  • existing chlorine

  • phonon propagation
  • underground laboratory
  • experiment related
  • absorption cross
  • carlo simulations


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