Solar Neutrinos, Neutrino Oscillations and Neutrino Backgrounds

作为其核心核反应的一部分，太阳产生中微子。中微子是电中性粒子，很少与物质相互作用。一旦产生，它们就会穿过太阳，飞向太空。这项建议的首席研究员打算利用氯和镓来测量地球上的太阳中微子通量，这些氯和镓在吸收中微子时会被激发，从而能够测量太阳中微子的吸收速率。他计划参加戴维斯在霍姆斯塔克金矿进行了大约20年的经典中微子实验，以及俄罗斯团队进行的一项新的镓实验。这项实验的最终目的是了解测量的太阳中微子流量和理论预测的太阳中微子流量之间的电流差异。

As part of its nuclear reactions in its core, the sun produces neutrinos. Neutrinos are electrically neutral particles that interact only very rarely with matter. Once produced, they pass through the sun and fly off into space. The Principal Investigator of this proposal intends to measure the solar neutrino flux on earth, making use of chlorine and gallium, which become excited when absorbing neutrinos and thereby allow the measurement of the rate of solar neutrino absorption. He plans to participate in a classical neutrino experiment carried out for about two decades by Davis in the Homestake Gold Mine and in a new gallium experiment carried out by a Russian team. The ultimate goal of this experiment is to understand the current differences between the measured and theoretically predicted solar neutrino flux.