Measurement of gamow-teller strength for 176Yb --> 176Lu and the efficiency of a solar neutrino detector.

Phys Rev Lett

Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana 47408 and University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 and Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

Published: November 2000

We report a 0 degrees 176Yb(p,n)176Lu measurement at IUCF where we used 120 and 160 MeV protons and the energy dependence method to determine Gamow-Teller (GT) matrix elements relative to the model independent Fermi matrix element. The data show that there is an isolated concentration of GT strength in the low-lying 1(+) states making the proposed Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy detector (based on neutrino captures on 176Yb) sensitive to pp and 7Be neutrinos and a promising detector to resolve the solar neutrino problem.

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