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Event-by-Event Direction Reconstruction of Solar Neutrinos in a High Light-Yield Liquid Scintillator (2309.06341v2)
Published 12 Sep 2023 in hep-ex and physics.ins-det
Abstract: The direction of individual $8$B solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slower, isotropic scintillation light using time information, and a maximum likelihood method was used to reconstruct the direction of individual scattered electrons. A clear directional signal was observed, correlated with the solar angle. The observation was aided by a period of low primary fluor concentration that resulted in a slower scintillator decay time. This is the first time that event-by-event direction reconstruction in high light-yield liquid scintillator has been demonstrated in a large-scale detector.
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