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Rule E, Haxton WC, McElvain K. Nuclear-Level Effective Theory of μ→e Conversion. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:131901. [PMID: 37067303 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.131901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The Mu2e and COMET μ→e conversion experiments are expected to significantly advance limits on new sources of charged lepton flavor violation. Almost all theoretical work in the field has focused on just two operators. However, general symmetry arguments lead to a μ→e conversion rate with six response functions, each of which, in principle, is observable by varying nuclear properties of targets. We construct a nucleon-level nonrelativistic effective theory (NRET) to clarify the microscopic origin of these response functions and to relate rate measurements in different targets. This exercise identifies three operators and their small parameters that control the NRET operator expansion. We note inconsistencies in past treatments of these parameters. The NRET is technically challenging, involving 16 operators, several distorted electron partial waves, bound muon upper and lower components, and an exclusive nuclear matrix element. We introduce a trick for treating the electron Coulomb effects accurately, which enables us to include all of these effects while producing transition densities whose one-body matrix elements can be evaluated analytically, greatly simplifying the nuclear physics. We derive bounds on operator coefficients from existing and anticipated μ→e conversion experiments. We discuss how similar NRET formulations have impacted dark matter phenomenology, noting that the tools this community has developed could be adapted for charged lepton flavor violation studies.
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- Evan Rule
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Barinov VV, Cleveland BT, Danshin SN, Ejiri H, Elliott SR, Frekers D, Gavrin VN, Gorbachev VV, Gorbunov DS, Haxton WC, Ibragimova TV, Kim I, Kozlova YP, Kravchuk LV, Kuzminov VV, Lubsandorzhiev BK, Malyshkin YM, Massarczyk R, Matveev VA, Mirmov IN, Nico JS, Petelin AL, Robertson RGH, Sinclair D, Shikhin AA, Tarasov VA, Trubnikov GV, Veretenkin EP, Wilkerson JF, Zvir AI. Results from the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST). Phys Rev Lett 2022; 128:232501. [PMID: 35749172 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.232501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) was designed to investigate the deficit of electron neutrinos ν_{e} observed in previous gallium-based radiochemical measurements with high-intensity neutrino sources, commonly referred to as the "gallium anomaly," which could be interpreted as evidence for oscillations between ν_{e} and sterile neutrino (ν_{s}) states. A 3.414-MCi ^{51}Cr ν_{e} source was placed at the center of two nested Ga volumes and measurements were made of the production of ^{71}Ge through the charged current reaction, ^{71}Ga(ν_{e},e^{-})^{71}Ge, at two average distances. The measured production rates for the inner and the outer targets, respectively, are [54.9_{-2.4}^{+2.5}(stat)±1.4(syst)] and [55.6_{-2.6}^{+2.7}(stat)±1.4(syst)] atoms of ^{71}Ge/d. The ratio (R) of the measured rate of ^{71}Ge production at each distance to the expected rate from the known cross section and experimental efficiencies are R_{in}=0.79±0.05 and R_{out}=0.77±0.05. The ratio of the outer to the inner result is 0.97±0.07, which is consistent with unity within uncertainty. The rates at each distance were found to be similar, but 20%-24% lower than expected, thus reaffirming the anomaly. These results are consistent with ν_{e}→ν_{s} oscillations with a relatively large Δm^{2} (>0.5 eV^{2}) and mixing sin^{2}2θ (≈0.4).
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- V V Barinov
- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Munster, D-48149 Munster, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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- JSC "State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors," Dimitrovgrad 433510, Russia
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- JSC "State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors," Dimitrovgrad 433510, Russia
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- JSC "State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors," Dimitrovgrad 433510, Russia
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Banerjee P, Qian YZ, Haxton WC, Heger A. New primary mechanisms for the synthesis of rare 9Be in early supernovae. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 110:141101. [PMID: 25166974 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.141101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We present two new primary mechanisms for the synthesis of the rare nucleus (9)Be, both triggered by ν-induced production of (3)H followed by (4)He((3)H,γ)(7)Li in the He shells of core-collapse supernovae. For progenitors of ∼ 8M(⊙), (7)Li((3)H,n(0))(9)Be occurs during the rapid expansion of the shocked He shell. Alternatively, for ultra-metal-poor progenitors of ∼ 11-15 M(⊙), (7)Li(n,γ)(8)Li(n,γ)(9)Li(e(-)ν(e))(9)Be occurs with neutrons produced by (4)He(ν(e),e(+)n)(3)H, assuming a hard effective ν(e) spectrum from oscillations (which also leads to heavy element production through rapid neutron capture) and a weak explosion (so the (9)Be survives shock passage). We discuss the associated production of (7)Li and (11)B, noting patterns in LiBeB production that might distinguish the new mechanisms from others.
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- Projjwal Banerjee
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Monash Centre for Astrophysics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Savin DW, Brickhouse NS, Cowan JJ, Drake RP, Federman SR, Ferland GJ, Frank A, Gudipati MS, Haxton WC, Herbst E, Profumo S, Salama F, Ziurys LM, Zweibel EG. The impact of recent advances in laboratory astrophysics on our understanding of the cosmos. Rep Prog Phys 2012; 75:036901. [PMID: 22790424 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/3/036901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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An emerging theme in modern astrophysics is the connection between astronomical observations and the underlying physical phenomena that drive our cosmos. Both the mechanisms responsible for the observed astrophysical phenomena and the tools used to probe such phenomena-the radiation and particle spectra we observe-have their roots in atomic, molecular, condensed matter, plasma, nuclear and particle physics. Chemistry is implicitly included in both molecular and condensed matter physics. This connection is the theme of the present report, which provides a broad, though non-exhaustive, overview of progress in our understanding of the cosmos resulting from recent theoretical and experimental advances in what is commonly called laboratory astrophysics. This work, carried out by a diverse community of laboratory astrophysicists, is increasingly important as astrophysics transitions into an era of precise measurement and high fidelity modeling.
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- D W Savin
- Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Banerjee P, Haxton WC, Qian YZ. Long, cold, early r process? Neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis in He shells revisited. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 106:201104. [PMID: 21668217 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.201104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We revisit a ν-driven r-process mechanism in the He shell of a core-collapse supernova, finding that it could succeed in early stars of metallicity Z ≲ 10⁻³ Z(⊙), at relatively low temperatures and neutron densities, producing A ~ 130 and 195 abundance peaks over ~10-20 s. The mechanism is sensitive to the ν emission model and to ν oscillations. We discuss the implications of an r process that could alter interpretations of abundance data from metal-poor stars, and point out the need for further calculations that include effects of the supernova shock.
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- Projjwal Banerjee
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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The effective interaction problem in nuclear physics is believed to be highly nonperturbative, requiring extended high-momentum spaces for accurate solution. We trace this to difficulties that arise at both short and long distances when the included space is defined in terms of a basis of harmonic oscillator Slater determinants. We show, in the simplest case of the deuteron, that both difficulties can be circumvented, yielding highly perturbative results in the potential even for modest (approximately 4 variant Planck's over 2pi omega) included spaces.
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- W C Haxton
- Institute for Nuclear Theory, Box 351550, and Department of Physics, Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Haxton WC, Liu CP, Ramsey-Musolf MJ. Anapole moment and other constraints on the strangeness conserving Hadronic weak interaction. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 86:5247-5250. [PMID: 11384469 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.5247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Standard analyses of low-energy NN and nuclear parity-violating observables have been based on a pi-, rho-, and omega-exchange model capable of describing all five independent s-p partial waves. Here a parallel analysis is performed for the one-body, exchange-current, and nuclear polarization contributions to the anapole moments of 133Cs and 205Tl. The resulting constraints are not consistent, though there remains some degree of uncertainty in the nuclear structure analysis of the atomic moments.
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- W C Haxton
- Institute for Nuclear Theory, Box 351550, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550, USA
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We describe a strategy for attacking the canonical nuclear structure problem-bound-state properties of a system of point nucleons interacting via a two-body potential-which involves an expansion in the number of particles scattering at high momenta, but is otherwise exact. The required self-consistent solutions of the Bloch-Horowitz equation for effective interactions and operators are obtained by an efficient Green's function method based on the Lanczos algorithm. We carry out this program for the simplest nuclei, d and 3He, in order to explore the consequences of reformulating the shell model as a controlled effective theory.
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- WC Haxton
- Institute for Nuclear Theory, Box 351550, and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- W. C. Haxton
- The author is at the Institute for Nuclear Theory and is in the Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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Ginocchio JN, Haxton WC. A First-Landau-Level Laughlin/Jain Wave Function for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. Phys Rev Lett 1996; 77:1568-1571. [PMID: 10063111 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.77.1568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Zheng DC, Barrett BR, Vary JP, Haxton WC, Song C. Large-basis shell model studies of light nuclei with a multivalued G-matrix effective interaction. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1995; 52:2488-2498. [PMID: 9970778 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.52.2488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Haxton WC, Höing A, Musolf MJ. Constraints on T-odd and P-even hadronic interactions from nucleon, nuclear, and atomic electric dipole moments. Int J Clin Exp Med 1994; 50:3422-3432. [PMID: 10017977 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.50.3422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Engel J, Haxton WC, Vogel P. Effective summation over intermediate states in double-beta decay. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1992; 46:R2153-R2157. [PMID: 9968406 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.46.r2153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Ying S, Haxton WC, Henley EM. Charged- and neutral-current solar-neutrino cross sections for heavy-water Cherenkov detectors. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1992; 45:1982-1987. [PMID: 9967950 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.45.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Ying S, Haxton WC, Henley EM. Neutral- and charged-current disintegration of deuterium by solar and supernova neutrinos. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1989; 40:3211-3220. [PMID: 10011689 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.40.3211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Haxton WC. Reply to "Comment on '37Ar as a calibration source for solar neutrino detectors' ". Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1989; 39:2081. [PMID: 9955442 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.39.2081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Haxton WC. Neutrino reactions on oxygen and a proposed measurement of the Weinberg angle. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1988; 37:2660-2664. [PMID: 9954743 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.37.2660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Avignone III, Baktash C, Barker WC, Calaprice FP, Dunford RW, Haxton WC, Kahana D, Kouzes RT, Miley HS, Moltz DM. Search for axions from the 1115-keV transition of 65Cu. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1988; 37:618-630. [PMID: 9958722 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.37.618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Adelberger EG, Haxton WC. 37Cl solar neutrino capture cross section. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1987; 36:879-882. [PMID: 9954159 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.36.879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Friar JL, Haxton WC. Current conservation and the transverse electric multipole field. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1985; 31:2027-2035. [PMID: 9952758 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.31.2027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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It may be possible to determine the boron-8 solar neutrino flux, averaged over the past several million years, from the concentration of technetium-98 in molybdenite. The mass spectrometry of this system is greatly simplified by the absence of stable technetium isotopes, and the presence of the fission product technetium-99 provides a monitor of uiranium-induced backgrounds. This geochemical experiment could provide the first test of nonstandard solar models that suggest a relation between the chlorine-37 solar neutrino puzzle and the recent ice age.
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Long-lived isotopes produced in the earth's crust by solar neutrinos may provide a method of probing secular variations in the rate of energy production in the sun's core. Only one isotope, calcium-41, appears to be suitable from the dual stand-points of reliable nuclear physics and manageable backgrounds. The proposed measurement also may be interesting in view of recent evidence for neutrino oscillations.
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