Solar Neutrinos: Experimental Program

太阳中微子：实验计划

• 批准号: 1102798
• 负责人: ROBERT VOGELAAR
• 金额: $ 92.1万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1102798&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Solar; Neutrinos; Experimental; Program

Measurements of the solar neutrino spectrum have already yielded unexpected results of fundamental importance and, as these measurements improve, new results promise to be equally revealing. Neutrino oscillations, coupled with the MSW mechanism, are required to explain the observed neutrino fluxes at Earth. This solution allows an interesting region between vacuum- and matter-enhanced oscillations where additional new physics can be probed. Likewise, recent solar abundance measurements have created conflicts between the Standard Solar Model and helioseismology results, which are most sensitively resolved by measurement of the CNO neutrino flux. Significantly, there also remains the question whether the luminosity of the sun, as determined by photons, accurately matches the luminosity as determined by neutrinos. In this case, a direct measurement of the pp neutrinos is also required. This award will provide funding for this group to continue their participation in the science arena of Borexino in the underground laboratory at Gran Sasso, Italy as the collaboration focuses on measuring the Beryllium-7 neutrino flux. The group actively participated and provided expert manpower to Borexino purification efforts. Results from the first pass of purification have been very successful, and when completed in the coming year, Borexino looks well poised to provide meaningful measurements of the CNO and pep fluxes as well. Future possibilities include measurements of the pp neutrino flux with the LENS experiment. This award will provide excellent training of, and experience for, the students and postdocs who work in the program as well as potential applications of these technologies outside of the field.

太阳中微子光谱的测量已经产生了具有根本重要性的意想不到的结果，并且随着这些测量的改进，新的结果有望同样具有启发性。中微子振荡与城市固体波机制相结合，需要解释在地球上观测到的中微子通量。该解决方案允许在真空和物质增强振荡之间形成一个有趣的区域，可以在其中探测更多的新物理现象。同样，最近的太阳丰度测量在标准太阳模型和日震学结果之间造成了冲突，而通过测量 CNO 中微子通量可以最敏感地解决这一问题。值得注意的是，还存在一个问题：由光子确定的太阳光度是否与中微子确定的光度准确匹配。在这种情况下，还需要直接测量 pp 中微子。该奖项将为该小组提供资金，以继续参与意大利格兰萨索地下实验室 Borexino 的科学领域，因为合作重点是测量铍 7 中微子通量。该小组积极参与 Borexino 净化工作并为其提供专家人力。第一次纯化的结果非常成功，明年完成后，Borexino 看起来也准备好提供有意义的 CNO 和 pep 通量测量。未来的可能性包括通过 LENS 实验测量 pp 中微子通量。该奖项将为参与该项目的学生和博士后以及这些技术在该领域之外的潜在应用提供良好的培训和经验。