My current research is on KamLAND (Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector). KamLAND is an ultra-low energy, high sensitivity, liquid scintillator detector located deep underground in the Kamioka mine. Our detector has the capability to detect ultra-low energy neutrinos of the order of 100keV. Currently, we are in the process of purifying the liquid scintillator in our detector to remove radioactive impurities which is necessary to measure 7Be neutrinos coming from the sun. In order to observe the 7Be neutrinos we must reduce the following backgrounds: 210Pb by a factor of 105, 40K by a factor of 100 and 85Kr by a factor of 106.
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Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters With KamLAND (KamLAND Collaboration) PRL,[hep-ex], June 25, 2008
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