Abstract
A Ga-71(He-3,t)Ge-71 charge-exchange experiment was performed to extract with high precision the Gamow-Teller (GT) transition strengths to the three lowest-lying states in Ge-71, i.e., the ground state (1/2(-)), the 175 keV (5/2(-)) and the 500 key (3/2(-)) excited states. These are the relevant states, which are populated via a charged-current reaction induced by neutrinos from reactor-produced Cr-51 and Ar-37 sources. A precise measurement of the GT transition strengths is an important input into the calibration of the SAGE and GALLEX solar neutrino detectors and addresses a long-standing discrepancy between the measured and evaluated capture rates from the Cr-51 and Ar-37 neutrino calibration sources, which has recently spawned new ideas about unconventional neutrino properties. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 134-138 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Volume | 706 |
Issue number | 2-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6-Dec-2011 |
Keywords
- Charge-exchange reaction
- Gamow-Teller strength
- Neutrino cross section
- Solar neutrinos
- SPECTROMETER GRAND RAIDEN
- ELECTRON-CAPTURE DECAY
- PF-SHELL NUCLEI
- INTERNAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG
- INTERMEDIATE ENERGIES
- HE-3,T REACTIONS
- CROSS-SECTIONS
- P,N REACTION
- SCATTERING
- GALLEX