Published 2011 | Version v1
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Production and suppression of [sup 11]C in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino

Description

Cosmogenic C-11 is produced in-situ by atmospheric mons and forms the main background for the measurement of solar pep- and CNO-neutrinos. However, FLUKA simulations show that the majority of C-11 is accompanied by a free neutron in the final state, thus allowing for an efficient tagging method, the so-called Three-Fold Coincidence technique. The technique and its first applications on Borexino data are presented.

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URL
http://hdl.handle.net/11567/388452
URN
urn:oai:iris.unige.it:11567/388452

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UNIGE