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28: 20: 286:. SNO was the first detector able to detect neutrino oscillation, solving the solar neutrino problem. The results of the experiment, published in 2001, revealed that of the three "flavours" between which neutrinos are able to oscillate, Davis's detector was sensitive to only one. After it had been proven that his experiment was sound, Davis shared the 2002 249:
Davis' figures were consistently very close to one-third of Bahcall's calculations. The first response from the scientific community was that either Bahcall or Davis had made a mistake. Bahcall's calculations were checked repeatedly, with no errors found. Davis scrutinized his own experiment and
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that had formed. A small (few cubic cm) gas counter was filled by the collected few tens of atoms of Ar (together with the stable argon) to detect its decays. In such a way, Davis was able to determine how many neutrinos had been captured.
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insisted there was nothing wrong with it. The Homestake experiment was followed by other experiments with the same purpose, such as
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took it over in 1984. The discrepancy between the predicted and measured rates of neutrino detection was later found to be due to
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The reaction threshold is 0.814 MeV, i.e. the neutrino should have at least this energy to be captured by the Cl nucleus.
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The underground tank of the Homestake experiment when the basin around the tank has not yet been flooded.
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of Japan, who worked on the Kamiokande and the Super Kamiokande (the prize was also shared with
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Gonzales-Garcia, M. C. (2003). "Neutrino Masses and Mixing: Evidence and Implications".
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Because Ar has a half-life of 35 days, every few weeks, Davis bubbled
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in the late 1960s. Its purpose was to collect and count
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Raymond Davis, Jr.
John N. Bahcall
neutrinos
nuclear fusion
Sun
solar neutrinos
solar neutrino problem
University of Pennsylvania
neutrino "flavour" oscillations
Homestake Gold Mine
Lead, South Dakota
perchloroethylene
cosmic rays
chlorine
Cl
Ar
helium
argon
Kamiokande
Japan
SAGE
Soviet Union
GALLEX
Italy
Super Kamiokande
SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory)
Ontario, Canada
Nobel Prize in Physics

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