Neutrino Physics

KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector) operating near Kamioka, Japan is the largest low-energy antineutrino detector ever built for studying the flux and energy spectra produced by neutrinos from commercial reactors. KamLAND is the first terrestrial experiment with enough sensitivity to verify or exclude one of the possible solutions to the solar neutrino problem (specifically the large mixing angle MSW solution). In addition to observing terrestrial neutrinos from reactors, KamLAND is expected in the future to detect directly ⁷Be solar neutrinos.

Scientists from UNC and TUNL assumed the responsibility for constructing the outer Cerenkov veto detector array for background radiation produced by cosmic ray muons. Learn about involvement of UNC/TUNL scientists and students in this international project which began collecting data in January 2002.