7Be solar neutrino measurement with KamLAND

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Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal Physical Review C
Article number 055808
Volume | Issue number 92 | 5
Number of pages 8
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
We report a measurement of the neutrino-electron elastic scattering rate of 862 keV Be7 solar neutrinos based on a 165.4 kt d exposure of KamLAND. The observed rate is 582±94(kt d)−1, which corresponds to an 862-keV Be7 solar neutrino flux of (3.26±0.52)×109cm−2s−1, assuming a pure electron-flavor flux. Comparing this flux with the standard solar model prediction and further assuming three-flavor mixing, a νe survival probability of 0.66±0.15 is determined from the KamLAND data. Utilizing a global three-flavor oscillation analysis, we obtain a total Be7 solar neutrino flux of (5.82±1.02)×109cm−2s−1, which is consistent with the standard solar model predictions.
Document type Article
Note KamLAND Collaboration
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.92.055808
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