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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 59, 2009

The Life of Raymond Davis, Jr. and the Beginning of Neutrino Astronomy

Abstract

Neutrino astronomy, the observation of neutrinos from extraterrestrial sources, began in 1966, when Raymond Davis, Jr. turned on his deep-underground chlorine-based neutrino detector. Over the next three decades, the lower-than-predicted solar neutrino flux that Davis observed confused the scientific community. Was our understanding of energy generation in the core of stars flawed? Was there an unforeseen experimental error? Or were neutrinos more mysterious than we had anticipated? The scientific career of the remarkable scientist Raymond Davis played an integral role in unraveling the complex nature of neutrinos and in confirming our nuclear fusion model of energy generation in the core of the Sun.

Keyword(s): neutrino astronomy, neutrino oscillations, radiochemistry, solar neutrinos
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The Life of Raymond Davis, Jr. and the Beginning of Neutrino Astronomy
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