Abstract
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a 1000 T D2O Cerenkov detector that is sensitive to 8 B and hep solar neutrinos. Both Charged Current and Neutral Current interaction rates on deuterons as well as the Elastic Scattering interaction rate on electrons can be measured simultaneously. Assuming an undistorted 8 B neutrino spectrum, the total flux measured with the NC reaction is [Formula: see text], which is consistent with solar models. The νe component of the 8 B solar flux is [Formula: see text] for a kinetic energy threshold of 5 MeV. The non-νe component is [Formula: see text], which is 5.3σ greater than zero, giving strong evidence for solar νe flavor transformation. The Day-Night Asymmetry for the Charged Current interaction is [Formula: see text]. If the total flux of active neutrinos is additionally constrained to have no asymmetry, the νe asymmetry is found to be [Formula: see text]. Combined with other solar neutrino data, a global MSW oscillation analysis strongly favors the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution.
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