Towards low-threshold, real-time solar neutrino detectors
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We discuss an alternative approach to the detection of solar neutrinos using a coarsely segmented detector based on inverse-beta decay onto 160Gd or 176Yb. While it is known that similar approaches, already discussed in the literature, can in principle provide low-threshold, real-time energy spectroscopy with intrinsic background rejection features, the concepts presented here make this scheme possible with lower background and current technology. ( 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 14.60.Pq; 26.65.#t; 29.40.Mc
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تاریخ انتشار 1999