Since the beginning of 2012, the Borexino collaboration has been reporting precision measurements of the solar neutrino fluxes, emitted in the proton–proton chain and in the Carbon–Nitrogen–Oxygen cycle. The experimental sensitivity achieved in Phase-II and Phase-III of the Borexino data taking made it possible to detect the annual modulation...
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2023 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: January 31, 2024
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2024 (v1)Publication
Borexino could efficiently distinguish between α and β radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of its scintillation pulse. This α/β discrimination, first demonstrated on the ton scale in the counting test facility prototype, was used throughout the lifetime of the experiment between 2007 and 2021. With this...
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2024 (v1)Publication
In the following, the first measurement of CNO solar neutrinos obtained by Borexino by exploiting the directional information retained by solar neutrino is summarized [1]. The Correlated Integrated Directionality (CID) method makes use of the sub-dominant Cherenkov light emitted by the Borexino liquid scintillator to correlate between the first...
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2024 (v1)Publication
The recent observation of CNO solar neutrinos by Borexino (BX) has proven the high potential offered by large underground ultrapure liquid scintillators to disclose weak neutrino and antineutrino fluxes. Supernovae explosions, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares and Gravitational Waves (GW) are among the possible extra-terrestrial sources of...
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2024 (v1)Publication
Borexino, placed at LNGS in Italy, was a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector that took data from May 2007 to October 2021. Thanks to its unprecedented radio-purity, the real time spectroscopic measurement of solar neutrinos from both the pp-chain and Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle of the Sun has been performed. Borexino also...
Uploaded on: November 1, 2024