- Accepted Paper
First evidence of neutrino absorption on argon using B solar neutrinos in DEAP-3600
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/ss4t-vqxr
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 25 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/ss4t-vqxr
We report experimental evidence for electron neutrino charged-current interactions (neutrino absorption, CC~) from B solar neutrinos on Ar using an exposure of (7.29 0.05)~tonneyears 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 B solar neutrino energy spectrum in the ROI after correcting for nonlinearities in the detector response at high energies. With an expected background of events, the background-only hypothesis is rejected at 4.0~. We report an energy-averaged cross section of in the ROI for the CC~ signal, a factor higher than predicted by Bhattacharya, Goodman and Garc´ia (2009).
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