Kenneth C. Hoffman Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A researcher whose team developed a radiochemical search for solar neutrinos. Their 1968 report with Raymond Davis Jr. and Don S. Harmer converted a limit on argon production in a chlorine detector into a bound on the incoming neutrino flux. The measurement illustrates how a detector’s target nuclei and reaction cross section connect a rare nuclear event with an astronomical inference.[ref]
Search for Neutrinos from the Sun by Raymond Davis Jr. and others. Abstract: capture-rate upper limit, cross sections and inferred solar flux