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In what experiment did Raymond Davis Jr. participate during the 1960s-1980s?

  • CERN Experiment

  • Space Shuttle Experiment

  • Homestake Experiment

  • Large Hadron Collider Experiment

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The Homestake Experiment, led by Raymond Davis Jr., was a groundbreaking experiment conducted from the 1960s to the 1980s to detect and measure the flux of neutrinos from the Sun. Located deep in the Homestake gold mine in South Dakota, USA, the experiment utilized a massive tank containing thousands of gallons of perchloroethylene to capture neutrino interactions.
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