Potential for precision measurement of solar neutrino luminosity by HERON

Y. H. Huang; R. E. Lanou; H. J. Maris; G. M. Seidel; B. Sethumadhavan; W. Yao

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.06.003

Potential for precision measurement of solar neutrino luminosity by HERON

Y. H. Huang, R. E. Lanou, H. J. Maris, G. M. Seidel, B. Sethumadhavan, W. Yao

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Abstract

Results are presented for a simulation carried out to test the precision with which a detector design (HERON) based on a superfluid helium target material should be able to measure the solar pp and ⁷Be fluxes. It is found that precisions of ±1.68% and ±2.97% for pp and ⁷Be fluxes, respectively, should be achievable in a 5-year data sample. The physics motivation to aim for these precisions is outlined as are the detector design, the methods used in the simulation and sensitivity to solar orbit eccentricity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Astroparticle Physics
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.06.003
State	Published - Aug 2008

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We are grateful to the US Department of Energy for support of R&D on this project through grant DE-FG02-8840452. We are indebted to J.R. Klein for his close reading and valuable suggestions, R.B. Vogelaar for comments and A.W. Poon for assistance in providing additional computing resources at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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