Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced a few minutes ago as going to experimentalists for the detection of cosmic neutrinos and the discovery of cosmic x-ray sources.
Ray Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba share half the prize for their neutrino studies and Riccardo Giacconi wins the other half for the x-ray work.
Details at the official Nobel site
Some background reading:
Physics Today, August 98, Kamiokande oscillation results
Physics Today, August 01, early SNO results
Physics Today, July 02, later SNO results
Scientific American, Jan 97, RXTE
Physics Today, May 00, x-ray background
Physics Today, Nov 00, Chandra results
Scientific American, May 90, Bahcall, solar nu problem
Scientific American, Aug 99, Kamiokande oscillation results
Physics Today, July 96, SNO
The articles from Physics Today will be available online at some time during the day at http://www.aip.org/pt/
Some relevant websites:
SNO website: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/
US-Kamiokande: http://www.phys.washington.edu/~superk/
Beamline, Winter 99: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/pdf/99iii.pdf
Early ref to neutrino oscillation: http://www.aip.org/physnews/preview/1998/neutrino/text.htm
long-baseline oscillation experiments: http://www.hep.anl.gov/ndk/longbnews/
AIP Photo Archive: https://raptor.aip.org/OA_HTML/aipCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10005
Ray Davis history: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/neutrino.html
Swedish Academy: http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2002/phyreading.html
Physics Today articles: http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-55/iss-10/nobel.html
APS journal articles: http://www.aps.org/media/
Chandra X-Ray Telescope: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
Kamiokande: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html
Associated Universities Inc.: http://www.aui.edu/
Ray Davis: The scientist and the man: http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Popular/RayDavis/paper.pdf
Photographs of Ray Davis: http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Popular/JohnRaypictures/johnraypictures.html
Other awards to the Laureates:
Raymond Davis, 1988 winner of the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics: http://www.aps.org/praw/bonner/index.html
Raymond Davis, 1992 winner of the W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics: http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/index.html
Masatoshi Koshiba, 2002 winner of the W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics: http://www.aps.org/praw/panofsky/02winner.html
Original research papers:
Raymond Davis, Jr
The first two back-to-back papers showing that neutrinos from the sun should be detectable.
Solar Neutrinos I: Theoretical
John N. Bahcall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 12, 300–302 (16 March 1964)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v12/p300
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Solar Neutrinos II: Experimental
Raymond Davis, Jr.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 12, 303–305 (16 March 1964)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v12/p303
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The first experimental results
Search for Neutrinos from the Sun
Raymond Davis, Jr., Don S. Harmer, and Kenneth C. Hoffman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 1205–1209 (20 May 1968)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v20/p1205
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Masatoshi Koshiba
The next generation of neutrino detection experiments
Observation of 8B solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande-II detector
K. S. Hirata, et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 16–19 (3 July 1989)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v63/p16
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Neutrino review papers
A review of solar neutrino experiments and theory
Solar neutrino experiments: results and implications
Till A. Kirsten
Reviews of Modern Physics, 71, 1213-1232 (July 1999)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v71/p1213
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A brief history of neutrino physics
Neutrino physics
L. Wolfenstein
Reviews of Modern Physics, 71, S140-S144 (March 1999)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v71/pS140
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Riccardo Giacconi
Evidence for x Rays From Sources Outside the Solar System
Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, and Frank R. Paolini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 439–443 (1 December, 1962)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v9/p439
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