Lorandite from Allchar as geochemical detector for pp-solar neutrinos

Pavicevic, Miodrag and Amthauer, Georg and Cvetkovic, Vladica and Boev, Blazo and Pejovic, Vladan and Henning, Walter and Bosch, Fritz and Litvinov, Yuri and Wagner, Reinhard (2018) Lorandite from Allchar as geochemical detector for pp-solar neutrinos. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 895. pp. 62-73. ISSN 0168-9002

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Abstract

LOREX (LORandite EXperiment) is a geochemical project addressing the solar proton–proton neutrino flux for
the period of 4.31(2) Ma from the reaction 205Tl + νe → 205Pb + e− with a very low threshold (52 keV) for
solar pp-neutrino capture. A decisive step for this purpose is to obtain the precise, background-corrected ratio
of 205Pb/205Tl in the mineral lorandite (TlAsS2) as geochemical detector occurring in the ore deposit of Allchar
in Macedonia. This study presents a report on the excavation of lorandite bearing ore from adit P-21 of the ore
body Crven Dol as well as on the separation of pure lorandite from the raw ore. A detailed mineralogical and
chemical investigation of the separated lorandite is performed with special regard to the question of its use as
detector for solar pp-neutrinos.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Lorandite Geochemical neutrino detector Allchar ore deposit pp-solar neutrinos
Subjects: Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences
Engineering and Technology > Other engineering and technologies
Natural sciences > Other natural sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences
Depositing User: Biljana Kosturanova
Date Deposited: 16 Apr 2018 07:33
Last Modified: 16 Apr 2018 07:33
URI: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/19834

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