Towards low-threshold, real-time solar neutrino detectors

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Abstract

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.

PACS

14.60.Pq
26.65.+t
29.40.Mc

Keywords

Solar neutrino detectors
High-energy particles
Spectroscopy

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