2016/04/30 by A. Bellerive, J. R. Klein, A.B. McDonald +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Neutrino Physics Research #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.04.035
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This review paper provides a summary of the published results of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment that was carried out by an international scientific collaboration with data collected during the period from 1999 to 2006. By using heavy water as a detection medium, the SNO experiment demonstrated clearly that solar electron neutrinos from 8B decay in the solar core change into other active neutrino flavors in transit to Earth. The reaction on deuterium that has equal sensitivity to all active neutrino flavors also provides a very accurate measure of the initial solar flux for comparison with solar models. This review summarizes the results from three phases of solar neutrino detection as well as other physics results obtained from analyses of the SNO data.