Measurement of the solar neutrino energy spectrum using neutrino-electron scattering

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作者
Fukuda, Y [1 ]
Hayakawa, T
Ichihara, E
Inoue, K
Ishihara, K
Ishino, H
Itow, Y
Kajita, T
Kameda, J
Kasuga, S
Kobayashi, K
Kobayashi, Y
Koshio, Y
Miura, M
Nakahata, M
Nakayama, S
Okada, A
Okumura, K
Sakurai, N
Shiozawa, M
Suzuki, Y
Takeuchi, Y
Totsuka, Y
Yamada, S
Earl, M
Habig, A
Kearns, E
Messier, MD
Scholberg, K
Stone, JL
Sulak, LR
Walter, CW
Goldhaber, M
Barszczak, T
Casper, D
Gajewski, W
Halverson, PG
Hsu, J
Kropp, WR
Price, LR
Reines, F
Smy, M
Sobel, HW
Vagins, MR
Ganezer, KS
Keig, WE
Ellsworth, RW
Tasaka, S
Flanagan, JW
Kibayashi, A
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Tokyo 1888502, Japan
[2] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[5] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Dept Phys, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[6] George Mason Univ, Dept Phys, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[7] Gifu Univ, Dept Phys, Gifu 5011193, Japan
[8] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[9] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[10] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[11] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[12] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[13] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[14] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[15] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[16] Osaka Univ, Dept Phys, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[17] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[18] Tohoku Univ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[19] Univ Tokyo, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[20] Tokai Univ, Dept Phys, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 2591292, Japan
[21] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Meguro Ku, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[22] Warsaw Univ, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[23] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2430
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A measurement of the energy spectrum of recoil electrons from solar neutrino scattering in the Super-Kamiokande detector is presented. The results shown here were obtained from 504 days of data taken between 31 May 1996 and 25 March 1998. The shape of the measured spectrum is compared with the expectation for solar B-8 neutrinos. The comparison takes into account both kinematic and detector related effects in the measurement process. The spectral shape comparison between the observation and the expectation gives a chi(2) Of 25.3 with 15 degrees of freedom, corresponding to a 4.6% confidence level.
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