Search for Correlation of Neutrino Events With Solar Flares in Kamiokande

Oct, 1988
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 2653,
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 62 (1989) 694 (erratum)
Report number:
  • ICR-177-88-23,
  • KEK-Preprint-88-37,
  • KOBE-AP-88-01,
  • OULNS-88-05,
  • UPR-0157E
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Abstract: (APS)
A search has been made for a correlation between large solar flares and neutrino events observed in Kamiokande for the period of July 1983–July 1988. No significant neutrino signal was found at the time of a solar flare, giving a limit on the time-integrated ‘‘solar-flare’’ νe flux <3.7×107 (2.5×109) /cm−2 per flare at 90% confidence level, for Eν=100 (50) MeV. These limits are 2000 (60) times smaller than the value required for neutrinos with those energies to account for the excess of signal in the Cl37 solar-neutrino experiment of some of the corresponding solar-flare times.
  • NEUTRINO: COSMIC RADIATION
  • COSMIC RADIATION: FLUX
  • FLUX: COSMIC RADIATION
  • EFFECT: SOLAR
  • CORRELATION
  • EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS