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To: Poohbah
I understand that the Sun puts out a SNU of neutrinos.

Er, no. A Solar Neutrino Unit is defined by the detector medium, being one measured solar neutrino interaction per 1036 atoms in the "fiducial volume" (sensitive part) of the detector. For a chlorine-based experiment, you measure something like 2 SNU; for a gallium-based experiment, you measure more like 80 SNU. I'm not sure about SNO's SNUs.

45 posted on 07/18/2002 3:01:14 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
So the answer to "What's SNU?" really IS "oh, not much here, what's SNU with you?"
46 posted on 07/18/2002 3:34:19 PM PDT by Poohbah
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To: Physicist
I'm not sure about SNO's SNUs.

It would probably be close to that of H2O, assuming that the crystalline detector form doesn't affect the interaction cross-section that much.

OBTW, it's spelled snow.

(evil grin...)

52 posted on 07/18/2002 7:02:36 PM PDT by Chemist_Geek
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