Particle Physics Experiments and Neutrino Astronomy

这笔为期三年的持续拨款支持冯·戈勒及其合作者在意大利Gran Sasso进行的“大体积探测器”(LVD)地下实验。这项实验是由国际合作在意大利政府建造的深地下设施中操作的。这项实验将有很多目标。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。这次实验将与以往的地下中微子实验有所不同。该仪器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和天体物理领域的新问题。

This three-year continuing grant supports the work of von Goeler and collaborators at Northeastern University 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.