BEST gallium target (IMAGE)

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

BEST gallium target

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Located deep underground at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory in the Caucasus mountains in Russia, the completed two-zone gallium target, at left, contains an inner and outer tank of gallium, which is irradiated by an electron neutrino source.

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A.A. Shikhin

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