• Accepted Paper

First evidence of neutrino absorption on argon using 8B solar neutrinos in DEAP-3600

P. Adhikari et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/ss4t-vqxr

Abstract

We report experimental evidence for electron neutrino charged-current interactions (neutrino absorption, CC~νe) from 8B solar neutrinos on 40Ar using an exposure of (7.29 ± 0.05)~tonne⋅years in the DEAP-3600 detector. A region of interest (ROI) of 10.5–13.0~MeV reconstructed energy calibrated on single-peak events, corresponding to incident neutrino energy in 12.0–14.5~MeV, is used for this measurement. We observe 5 single-peak and 1 double-peak neutrino-like events consistent with the 8B solar neutrino energy spectrum in the ROI after correcting for nonlinearities in the detector response at high energies. With an expected background of 0.48−0.15+0.16 events, the background-only hypothesis is rejected at 4.0~σ. We report an energy-averaged cross section of (4.0−1.6+2.0(stat)−0.7+0.8(sys))×10−41cm2 in the ROI for the CC~νe signal, a factor (2.4−1.0+1.3) higher than predicted by Bhattacharya, Goodman and Garc´ia (2009).

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