Achievements in solar neutrino physics with the Borexino detector. Issue 8 (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Miramonti, L.; Nachname, Vorname
• Is Part Of: Astronomische Nachrichten. Volume 336:Issue 8/9(2015)
• Page Start: 790
• Page End: 794
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: elementary particles -- instrumentation: detectors -- neutrinos -- Sun: interior; Astronomy -- Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.201512229
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0004-6337

Abstract

Abstract: Borexino is an organic liquid scintillator detector located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in central Italy. It has been designed for real‐time spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos. In Phase I of the experiment lasting for three years, between May 2007 and May 2010, the Collaboration performed the first independent measurements of 7 Be, 8 B, and pep solar neutrino fluxes. After a dedicated purification campaign of the liquid scintillator in 2011, Borexino entered into Phase II which allowed to investigate the seasonal modulation in the 7 Be signal. In 2014, Borexino provided the first direct real time measurement of pp neutrinos accomplishing the whole pp‐cycle that powers the Sun. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)