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    Solar Neutron Event in Association with a Large Solar Flare on 2000 November 24
    (IOP Publishing, 2003) K. Watanabe; Y. Muraki; Y. Matsubara; Kazuaki Murakami; T. Sako; H. Tsuchiya; S. Masuda; M. Yoshimori; N. Ohmori; P. Miranda
    Solar neutrons have been detected using the neutron monitor located at Mt. Chacaltaya, Bolivia, in association with a large solar flare on November 24, 2000. This is the first detection of solar neutrons by the neutron monitor that have been reported so far in solar cycle 23. The statistical significance of the detection is 5.5 sigma. In this flare, the intense emission of hard X-rays and gamma-rays has been observed by the Yohkoh Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) and Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS), respectively. The production time of solar neutrons is better correlated with those of hard X-rays and gamma-rays than with the production time of soft X-rays. The observations of the solar neutrons on the ground have been limited to solar flares with soft X-ray class greater than X8 in former solar cycles. In this cycle, however, neutrons were detected associated with an X2.3 solar flare on November 24, 2000. This is the first report of the detection of solar neutrons on the ground associated with a solar flare with its X-ray class smaller than X8.
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    Status of the world-wide network of solar neutron telescopes in solar cycle 24
    (2009) Y. Matsubara; Y. Muraki; T. Sako; Y. Itow; T. Sakai; S. Shibata; T. Yuda; M. Ohnishi; H. Tsuchiya; Y. Katayose
    A network of solar neutron telescopes has been developed since the middle of solar cycle 22. We have detected several important solar neutron events until the end of solar cycle 23 using solar neutron telescopes, but the accumulation of more solar neutron events is indispensable to eclucidate the acceleration mechanism of high energy particles. The data of the solar magnetic field with a space resolution of 0.3 arcsec obtained by Hinode satellite will be useful to understand solar neutron events more efficiently than during the previous solar cycles. In this paper we discuss the expected scientific results obtained by the world-wide network of solar neutron telescopes during solar cycle 24.