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萨德伯里中微子天文台中性电流探测器阶段的结果

Results from the Neutral Current Detector phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Ryan Martin

摘要:

萨德伯里中微子天文台(Sudbury Neutrino Observatory,SNO)是一个重水切伦科夫探测器,旨在解决长期存在的“太阳中微子问题”,即测量和预测的电子味太阳中微子通量之间的差异。SNO测量了中微子在重水中的带电电流和中性电流反应的速率,并能够证明来自太阳的中微子在电子味本征态中产生,在到达地球的途中经历了味道变化,从而解决了太阳中微子问题。实验分三个阶段进行,不同的是测量中性电流率的方法。这篇简短的论文总结了实验第三阶段的结果,该阶段使用了一个由36个充满$^3$ He的正比计数器组成的阵列来检测来自中性电流反应的中子。当这三个阶段的数据与太阳和Kamland中微子振荡实验相结合时,太阳中微子混合角和质量平方差的极限分别为$θ_{12} = 34.4^{+1.3}_{-1.2}$度和$Δm_{12}^2 =7.59^{+0.19}_{-0.21}\times 10^{-5}$ eV $^2$。

英文摘要:

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was a heavy water Cerenkov detector designed to solve the long-standing ``solar neutrino problem''; a discrepancy between the measured and predicted flux of electron-flavour solar neutrinos. SNO measured the rate of charged-current and neutral-current reactions of neutrinos in heavy water and was able to demonstrate that neutrinos from the Sun, produced in the electron flavour eigenstate, undergo flavour change on their way to the Earth, thus resolving the solar neutrino problem. The experiment was conducted in three phases, differing by the method for measuring the neutral current rate. This short paper summarizes results from the third phase of the experiment, which used an array of 36 strings of proportional counters filled with $^3$He to detect neutrons from the neutral-current reaction. When the data from the three phases is combined with solar and the KamLAND neutrino oscillation experiments, the resulting limits on the solar neutrino mixing angle and mass-squared difference are $θ_{12} = 34.4^{+1.3}_{-1.2}$ degrees and $Δm_{12}^2 =7.59^{+0.19}_{-0.21}\times 10^{-5}$eV$^2$, respectively.

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