1. Neutral current and day night measurements from the pure D2O phase of SNO
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B. C. Robertson, J. R. Leslie, M. Dunford, Eric B. Norman, J. B. Wilhelmy, T. Kutter, J. Manor, J. Farine, S. D. Biller, C. W. Nally, T. V. Bullard, A. S. Hamer, D. R. Grant, Guthrie Miller, S. J. Brice, James R. Wilson, E. W. Beier, P. J. Harvey, J. Cameron, C. E. Okada, J. F. Wilkerson, E. D. Hallman, X. Chen, W. J. Heintzelman, S. R. Elliott, R. G. Stokstad, David A. Sinclair, J. A. Formaggio, P. Jagam, Reda Tafirout, Christopher C. M. Kyba, M. W. Smith, C. J. Virtue, Ilan Levine, H. B. Mak, R. G. Van de Water, N. Starinsky, G. Doucas, P. Skensved, G. T. Ewan, K. K. Schaffer, G. A. Cox, K. Kazkaz, M. M. Fowler, F. Dalnoki-Veress, M. G. Bowler, C. K. Hargrove, K. Graham, S. M. Oser, P. T. Keener, S. S.E. Rosendahl, S. Majerus, John L. Orrell, Hal Evans, W. Frati, S. Luoma, B. T. Cleveland, W. B. Handler, D. L. Wark, K. T. Lesko, N. Tagg, E. D. Earle, N. Gagnon, Y.D. Chan, K. M. Heeger, A. Hime, Mark Guy Boulay, X. Dai, J. J. Simpson, R. L. Hahn, R. Hazama, Minfang Yeh, J. A. Dunmore, N. A. Jelley, K. Frame, A. L. Hallin, M. Howe, J. M. Wouters, Peter Wittich, A. B. McDonald, N. McCauley, A. D. Marino, R. Van Berg, H. Fergani, M. L. Chen, I. Lawson, A. J. Noble, Jochen Klein, V. L. Rusu, J. Maneira, A. W. P. Poon, F. A. Duncan, R. G. H. Robertson, M. R. Dragowsky, T. Spreitzer, T.J. Bowles, G. McGregor, Chris Waltham, L. C. Stonehill, R. L. Helmer, M. H. Schwendener, J. Law, C. J. Sims, J. Heise, C. A. Duba, N. West, and P. J. Doe
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Physics ,Elastic scattering ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ,Solar neutrino ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Massless particle ,Nuclear physics ,Neutrino detector ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Neutrino ,Nuclear Experiment ,Charged current ,Lepton - Abstract
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a 1000 T D 2 O Cerenkov detector that is sensitive to 8 B solar neutrinos. The energy, radius, and direction with respect to the sun is measured for each neutrino event; these distributions are used to separately determine the rates of the charged current, neutral current and electron scattering reactions of neutrinos on deuterium. Assuming an undistorted 8 B spectrum, the ν e component of the 8 B solar flux is φ e = 1.76 +0.05 −0.05 (stat.) +0.09 −0.09 (syst.) × 10 6 cm −2 s −1 based on events with a measured kinetic enegy above 5 MeV. The non- ν e component is φ μτ = 3.41 +0.45 −0.45 (stat.) +0.48 −0.45 (syst.) × 10 6 cm −2 s −1 , 5.3 σ greater than zero, providing strong evidence for solar ν e flavor transformation. The total flux measured with the NC reaction is φ NC = 5.09 +0.044 −0.43 (stat.) +0.46 −0.43 (syst.) × 10 6 cm −2 s −1 , consistent with solar models. The night minus day rate is 14.0% ± 6.3% +1.5 −1.4 % of the average rate. If the total flux of active neutrinos is additionally constrained to have no asymmetry, the ν e asymmetry is found to be 7.0% ± 4.9% +1.3 −1.2 %. A global solar neutrino analysis is terms of matter-enhanced oscillations of two active flavors strongly favors the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution.
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- 2016