THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN GALLIUM EXPERIMENT (SAGE) CR NEUTRINO SOURCE MEASUREMENT

Authors
ABDURASHITOV JN GAVRIN VN GIRIN SV GORBACHEV VV IBRAGIMOVA TV KALIKHOV AV KHAIRNASOV NG KNODEL TV KORNOUKHOV VN MIRMOV IN SHIKHIN AA VERETENKIN EP VERMUL VM YANTS VE ZATSEPIN GT BOWLES TJ NICO JS TEASDALE WA WARK DL CHERRY ML KARAULOV VN LEVITIN VL MAEV VI NAZARENKO PI SHKOLNIK VS SKORIKOV NV CLEVELAND BT DAILY T DAVIS R LANDE K LEE CK WILDENHAIN PW KHOMYAKOV YS ZVONAREV AV ELLIOTT SR WILKERSON JF
Citation
Jn. Abdurashitov et al., THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN GALLIUM EXPERIMENT (SAGE) CR NEUTRINO SOURCE MEASUREMENT, Physical review letters, 77(23), 1996, pp. 4708-4711
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
77
Issue
23
Year of publication
1996
Pages
4708 - 4711
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)77:23<4708:TRGE(C>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The solar neutrino capture rate measured by SAGE is well below that pr edicted by solar models. To check the overall experimental efficiency, we exposed 13 tonnes of Ga metal to a reactor-produced 517 kCi source of Cr-51. The ratio of the measured production rate to that predicted from the source activity is 0.95 +/- 0.11(stat) +0.05/-0.08(syst). Th is agreement verifies that the experimental efficiency is measured cor rectly, establishes that there are no unknown systematic errors at the 10% level, and provides considerable evidence for the reliability of the solar neutrino measurement.