1998/02/25 by G. Jonkmans, I. S. Towner, B. Sur · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.58.1278
published as Phys.Rev.C58:1278-1287,1998 · revtex
arxiv created 1998/02/25 · openalex publication_date 1998/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The sensitivity of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) to measure the shape of the recoil electron spectrum in the charged-current reaction of 8B solar neutrinos interacting with deuterium can be improved if the results of a 8Li beta-decay calibration experiment are included in the test. We calculate an improvement in sensitivity, under certain idealistic assumptions, of about a factor of 2, sufficient to resolve different neutrino-oscillation solutions to the solar-neutrino problem. We further examine the role of recoil and radiative corrections on both the 8B neutrino spectrum and the 8Li electron spectrum and conclude that the influence of these effects on the ratio of the two spectra as measured by the SNO is very small.