Consider a possible experiment looking for neutrino oscillations using as a source a nuclear reactor complex of

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Consider a possible experiment looking for neutrino oscillations using as a source a nuclear reactor complex of 3 GW, producing 6 x 1020 s-1 electron antineutrinos. You are planning a detector containing free protons (such as a liquid scintillator) to observe the reaction ν̅e + p → e+ + n. In the MeV energy range the cross section of the process varies strongly with energy, but for a rough calculation assume the value σ = 10–47 m2. You want to measure the νe flux at two distances, L1 = 100 m and L2 = 2 km. Calculate the proton masses necessary in the two detectors to have 100 counts per day.

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