Talk:Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

message: The mine is not "near" Greater Sudbury; it is in Greater Sudbury. Bearcat 04:56, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: What is the observed neutrino flux in this detector, in neutrinos per day? What fraction is solar, atmospheric, cosmological?  If a supernova happened in our galaxy, what would the be expected number of detected neutrinos? What if in another galaxy?  linas 03:38, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Could I convince you to add a section of this sort to the article? To me, at least, having a feel for the numbers like this gives a much better idea of what is possible and what is not.  linas 16:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Flux?

message: This article says that neutrinos change types as the neutrinos travel through the sun.  The Solar neutrino problem article says that they change types along the way to Earth.  Someone please fix this inconsistency. Ken Arromdee 02:12, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. linas 03:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This should not have been "fixed".  The neutrinos do change on their way to the Earth from the core of the sun, but almost all of the oscillation occurs inside of the sun as the solar density changes, through the MSW effect. Flying fish 07:32, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for re-fixing this. However, the answer you give above is more precise and correct than the statement in the article. Again, I encourage you to add this to the article. And create an article on the MSW effect if that suits you... linas 16:42, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where do the oscillations take place? 

message: I took a number of photos inside the observatory a couple of years ago as a student there.  Can I post them here as my own copyright, or is this top secret?
Hbar.cc (talk) 06:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no secret; please do!  71.41.210.146 (talk) 00:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: I have edited this link. The reason is that the original link pointed to a article about the RSA's Benjamin Franklin Medal which the director of SNO did not receive. The link now points to the Franklin Institute which awards the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics which he did. Wilmot1 (talk) 17:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Benjamin Franklin Medal

message: Article now claims that free neutrons from D photodissociation are detected directly by D capture! Official site says this is unlikely (25%), due to low D cross section for neutrons (of course) so plans are made to use He-3 and Cl-35 to capture thermalized neutrons. . Was that ever done? The 6 MeV figure in the article does seem to be the energy difference between D+n and T, as article says. Other reactions give other energies. SBHarris 05:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral current detection 

message: Can anyone help fix the citation for the number of times SNO articles have been referenced? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory#cite_note-3. The link does not seem to produce any results. --papageno (talk) 02:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix Number of Citations Link 

message: I don't think this is correct. The Germans have large manmade caverns for oil storage. The SNO cavity seems only about 20 m wide, as judged from the artists drawing.
91.96.32.21 (talk) 21:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "largest manmade underground cavity in the world" 

message: Just to note that the Nobel Prize was actually awarded to "Art McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory collaboration"  This was in the official citation press release.  Acknowledging the collaboration should perhaps be made here and on McDonald's page.  I hesitate to do that without a discussion.  Bdushaw (talk) 12:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel prize 

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replies: text: I'm not expert enough to fix the dead link but I can give some pointers.  The original link was a search result for the HEP science database (the portion hosted by the German lab DESY), The search engine/system was called Spires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Physics_Information_Retrieval_System.  That system was migrated to an updated version now called Inspire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE-HEP.  I don't know what search result the original link pointed to, but if someone knows one could use an Inspire HEP search to get the same result and fix the link. Hope someone can use this info to do so. 2600:1700:1C60:45E0:A9A6:AA4D:32AE:1BC4 (talk) 02:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018)