摘要

The possibility of detecting neutrinos by coherent scattering on high Debye temperature monocrystals such as sapphire is presented and discussed. Preliminary estimations showed that 1 MeV neutrinos with a fluency density of 1012 cm(-2) s(-1) could interact with a force of about 10(-6) dyn with a 100 g sapphire monocrystal. A torsion balance provided with 1 m length molybdenum wire and an optical autocollimator able to measure small rotation angles of about 0.1 arcsec could give positive results. The design of a high sensitivity torsion balance under construction provided with such a detector is presented and discussed.

  • 出版日期2008-4-30