Elementary Particle Physics and Neutrino Astronomy

基本粒子物理学和中微子天文学

• 批准号: 8819376
• 负责人: Roy Weinstein
• 金额: $ 54.24万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-04-01 至 1992-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8819376&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Elementary; Particle; Physics; Neutrino; Astronomy

This three-year grant supports the work of Roy Weinstein and collaborators at the University of Houston on the "Large Volume Detector" (LVD) underground experiment in the Gran Sasso, in Italy. This experiment is operated by an international collaboration in a deep-underground facility constructed by the government of Italy. The experiment will have many goals. Several of the goals are: (1) to search for neutrinos from supernova explosions; (2) to search for oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos; and (3) to detect solar neutrinos. The experiment will be somewhat different from previous underground neutrino experiments. The apparatus will be sensitive to neutrinos of lower energies and so will be able to answer new questions in the areas of elementary particle physics and astrophysics.

这项为期三年的拨款支持休斯顿大学的罗伊·温斯坦及其合作者在意大利格兰萨索进行的“大体积探测器”（LVD）地下实验。这项实验是由一个国际合作组织在意大利政府建造的地下深处的设施中进行的。这个实验将有许多目标。其中几个目标是：(1)从超新星爆炸中寻找中微子；(2)寻找大气中微子的振荡；(3)探测太阳中微子。这次实验将与以前的地下中微子实验有所不同。该装置将对较低能量的中微子敏感，因此将能够回答基本粒子物理学和天体物理学领域的新问题。