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1. EVALUATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE THERMOMETRY REPRODUCIBILITY DURING MR HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA

Author: S. Karkavitsas, M. Goeger-Neff, M. Wadepohl, B. Zilles, O. Dietrich, L. Lindner, and M. Paulides
Subjects: Biophysics, General Physics and Astronomy, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine
Published: 2022

2. Geo-neutrinos from 1353 Days with the Borexino Detector

Author: A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Caren Hagner, A. Pocar, Marcin Wójcik, O. Smirnov, K. Otis, P. Cavalcante, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, Aldo Romani, S. Gazzana, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Zuzel, A. V. Derbin, M. Misiaszek, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, P. J. Mosteiro, Lothar Oberauer, S. Manecki, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Saldanha, Denis Korablev, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Marco Giammarchi, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, F. von Feilitzsch, Fabio Mantovani, I. N. Machulin, Andrea Ianni, Alessandra Re, E. Meroni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Marco Pallavicini, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, D. D'Angelo, R. B. Vogelaar, Q. Meindl, Jingke Xu, Gioacchino Ranucci, C. Ghiano, Paolo Lombardi, Barbara Ricci, Cristiano Galbiati, G. Korga, A. Empl, S. Perasso, D. Kryn, Aldo Ianni, Lino Miramonti, T. Lewke, B. Caccianiga, V. N. Muratova, E. V. Hungerford, R. Tartaglia, M. Goeger-Neff, S. Schönert, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, A. Sotnikov, C. Salvo, W. Maneschg, Fausto Ortica, G. Bellini, D. Vignaud, Giovanni Fiorentini, D. Franco, S. V. Sukhotin, M. Obolensky, G. Bonfini, M. Buizza Avanzini, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, S. Davini, G. Testera, K. Fomenko, G. Manuzio, V. V. Kobychev, B. Loer, Yusuke Koshio, Jay Burton Benziger, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, J. Winter, and A. A. Sabelnikov
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Detector, Ambientale, Physics and Astronomy(all), Mass ratio, Neutrino, Borexino
Abstract: We present a 1353 days measurement of the geo–neutrino flux in Borexino: the signal was found to be 14.3 ± 4.4 events. This result translates into S geo = (38.8 ± 12.0) TNU when a Th/U fixed chondritic mass ratio of 3.9 is assumed. Furthermore Borexino data are compatible with a mantle geo–neutrino signal of (15.4 ± 12.3) TNU.
Published: 2015

3. The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector

Author: G. Manuzio, Maurizio Canepa, M. Goeger-Neff, I. S. Drachnev, Y. Suvorov, J. Thurn, D. Franco, A. Pocar, Matthias Laubenstein, Manuel Meyer, R. Roncin, Livia Ludhova, Paolo Lombardi, Jay Burton Benziger, A. Jany, D. Basilico, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, Marcin Wójcik, O. Zaimidoroga, M. D. Skorokhvatov, N. Rossi, H. Wang, Kai Zuber, E. Meroni, A. Vishneva, B. Opitz, D. Jeschke, L.F.F. Stokes, V. V. Kobychev, Michael Wurm, E. V. Hungerford, O. Smirnov, Xuefeng Ding, Z. Yokley, Lino Miramonti, S. Schönert, D. Bravo, V. Atroshchenko, E. V. Unzhakov, A. V. Derbin, C. Ghiano, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, P. Shakina, Caren Hagner, G. Testera, G. Lukyanchenko, Cristiano Galbiati, K. Choi, Lothar Oberauer, Z. Bagdasarian, K. Fomenko, D. Kryn, Gioacchino Ranucci, Matteo Agostini, M. Gromov, R. Tartaglia, Aldo Romani, V. N. Muratova, T. Houdy, L. Di Noto, F. Lombardi, D. Bick, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, P. Cavalcante, Michele Magnozzi, M. Misiaszek, D. A. Semenov, G. Zuzel, G. Bellini, S. Caprioli, Marco Giammarchi, D. Korablev, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Alessandra Re, S. Davini, F. Froborg, R. B. Vogelaar, I. N. Machulin, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, M. Carlini, B. Neumair, Andrey Formozov, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Appel, G. Korga, B. Caccianiga, A. Caminata, F. Gabriele, A. Razeto, S. Weinz, S. Marcocci, L. Borodikhina, M. Toropova, K. Altenmüller, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Borexino, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Agostini, M, Suvorov, Y, and Al., Et
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Monte Carlo method, scintillation counter: liquid, Solar neutrinos, energy resolution, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Large volume liquid scintillator detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Large volume liquid scintillator detectors, Borexino, Physics, photomultiplier, track data analysis, Detector, efficiency: quantum, ddc:540, GEANT, Neutrino, photon: yield, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, Photomultiplier, data analysis method, energy loss, Scintillator, programming, photon: reflection, Monte Carlo simulations, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, photon: scattering, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, background: radioactivity, Monte Carlo simulation, detector: design, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, bibliography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, calibration, attenuation: length, pile-up, electronics: readout
Abstract: We describe the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation package of the Borexino detector and discuss the agreement of its output with data. The Borexino MC 'ab initio' simulates the energy loss of particles in all detector components and generates the resulting scintillation photons and their propagation within the liquid scintillator volume. The simulation accounts for absorption, reemission, and scattering of the optical photons and tracks them until they either are absorbed or reach the photocathode of one of the photomultiplier tubes. Photon detection is followed by a comprehensive simulation of the readout electronics response. The algorithm proceeds with a detailed simulation of the electronics chain. The MC is tuned using data collected with radioactive calibration sources deployed inside and around the scintillator volume. The simulation reproduces the energy response of the detector, its uniformity within the fiducial scintillator volume relevant to neutrino physics, and the time distribution of detected photons to better than 1% between 100 keV and several MeV. The techniques developed to simulate the Borexino detector and their level of refinement are of possible interest to the neutrino community, especially for current and future large-volume liquid scintillator experiments such as Kamland-Zen, SNO+, and Juno.
Published: 2017

4. Borexino’s search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts

Author: Aldo Ianni, A.V. Etenko, M. Goeger-Neff, O. Smirnov, D. Bravo, J. Winter, Marco Giammarchi, D. Franco, R. Tartaglia, G. Lukyanchenko, E. V. Unzhakov, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, M. Misiaszek, Matthias Laubenstein, A. Jany, Matteo Agostini, P. Cavalcante, E. V. Hungerford, W. Maneschg, Cristiano Galbiati, Alessandra Re, A. Sotnikov, Marcin Wójcik, R. B. Vogelaar, P. J. Mosteiro, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Michele Montuschi, E. Meroni, F. Lombardi, G. Zuzel, A. Pocar, A. Razeto, M. Carlini, Z. Yokley, Kai Zuber, V. Atroshchenko, S. Schönert, D. Kryn, Lothar Oberauer, S. Manecki, H. de Kerret, G. Bellini, B. Neumair, I. S. Drachnev, K. Jedrzejczak, G. Manuzio, I. N. Machulin, K. Fomenko, D. Jeschke, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, M. Gromov, B. Lehnert, E. Litvinovich, Jay Burton Benziger, N. Rossi, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Weinz, M. S. Meyer, S. Appel, L. Papp, G. Bonfini, D. A. Semenov, Frank Calaprice, K. Choi, S. Marcocci, Fausto Ortica, Paolo Lombardi, M. Toropova, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, Gioacchino Ranucci, B. Caccianiga, M. Obolensky, A. V. Derbin, V. N. Muratova, Lino Miramonti, K. Altenmüller, Denis Korablev, A. Caminata, A. Vishneva, F. Gabriele, G. Korga, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, G. Testera, Y. Suvorov, S. Davini, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), BOREXINO, AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Agostini, M., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: antineutrinos, electron, Antineutrinos, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, data acquisition, Solar neutrino, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, low energy/MeV neutrinos, Electron, gamma ray: burst, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Low energy/MeV neutrino, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Low energy/MeV neutrinos, Neutrinos, Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Borexino, scintillation counter, Physics, flavor, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, gamma-ray bursts, neutrinos, Gamma-ray bursts, Astronomy and Astrophysics, semileptonic decay, antineutrino, correlation: time, Neutrino detector, Inverse beta decay, ddc:540, Scintillation counter, readout, High Energy Physics::Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; A search for neutrino and antineutrino events correlated with 2350 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is performed with Borexino data collected between December 2007 and November 2015. No statistically significant excess over background is observed. We look for electron antineutrinos ( ν¯e ) that inverse beta decay on protons with energies from 1.8 MeV to 15 MeV and set the best limit on the neutrino fluence from GRBs below 8 MeV. The signals from neutrinos and antineutrinos from GRBs that scatter on electrons are also searched for, a detection channel made possible by the particularly radio-pure scintillator of Borexino. We obtain currently the best limits on the neutrino fluence of all flavors and species below 7 MeV. Finally, time correlations between GRBs and bursts of events are investigated. Our analysis combines two semi-independent data acquisition systems for the first time: the primary Borexino readout optimized for solar neutrino physics up to a few MeV, and a fast waveform digitizer system tuned for events above 1 MeV.
Published: 2017

5. Seasonal Modulation of the $^7$Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino

Author: Michael Wurm, F. von Feilitzsch, Aldo Romani, K. Choi, L. Di Noto, M. Carlini, B. Neumair, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, Alessandra Re, Fausto Ortica, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, G. Zuzel, D. Basilico, N. Rossi, Matteo Agostini, R. Tartaglia, E. V. Hungerford, Jay Burton Benziger, O. Zaimidoroga, Aldo Ianni, B. Opitz, Z. Yokley, H. Wang, Xuefeng Ding, D. Jeschke, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, S. Davini, Kai Zuber, V. V. Kobychev, G. Testera, A. Sotnikov, F. Froborg, V. Atroshchenko, F. Lombardi, G. Bonfini, K. Altenmüller, Denis Korablev, Gioacchino Ranucci, P. Shakina, D. A. Semenov, I. N. Machulin, Cristiano Galbiati, Lino Miramonti, A. Razeto, Frank Calaprice, D. Kryn, Michele Montuschi, Manuel Meyer, R. B. Vogelaar, Marco Pallavicini, S. Caprioli, Y. Suvorov, D. D'Angelo, Livia Ludhova, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, Paolo Lombardi, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Marco Giammarchi, A. Vishneva, M. Goeger-Neff, C. Ghiano, V. N. Muratova, A. Jany, G. Lukyanchenko, Caren Hagner, S. Appel, S. Schönert, Lothar Oberauer, P. Cavalcante, A. V. Derbin, M. Misiaszek, G. Bellini, Matthias Laubenstein, S. Marcocci, L. Borodikhina, M. Toropova, G. Korga, A. Caminata, F. Gabriele, M. Gromov, B. Caccianiga, T. Houdy, M. M. Wojcik, L.F.F. Stokes, E. Meroni, I. S. Drachnev, D. Bravo, B. Lehnert, S. Weinz, S. Manecki, D. Franco, G. Manuzio, A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, E. V. Unzhakov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), BOREXINO, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Basilico, D., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Borodikhina, L., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Caprioli, S., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Ding, X. F., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Froborg, F., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jany, A., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Martyn, J., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Opitz, B., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Shakina, P., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Stokes, L. F. F., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, E., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA )
Subjects: liquid scintillators detectors, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, experimental methods, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, low background detectors, Solar neutrinos, 01 natural sciences, flux: time dependence, neutrino: flux, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Liquid scintillators detectors, Low background detectors, Neutrino oscillations, Astronomy and Astrophysics, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Borexino, neutrino: interaction, MSW effect, Physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), neutrino electron: elastic scattering, modulation, Amplitude, Modulation, solar neutrinos, Neutrino, Liquid scintillators detector, FLUX, Low background detector, data analysis method, Neutrino oscillation, FOS: Physical sciences, Nuclear physics, TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], SPACED DATA, 010306 general physics, background: radioactivity, neutrino oscillations, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION, beryllium, Gran Sasso, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Event (particle physics), experimental results
Abstract: We detected the seasonal modulation of the $^7$Be neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The period, amplitude, and phase of the observed time evolution of the signal are consistent with its solar origin, and the absence of an annual modulation is rejected at 99.99\% C.L. The data are analyzed using three methods: the sinusoidal fit, the Lomb-Scargle and the Empirical Mode Decomposition techniques, which all yield results in excellent agreement., Comment: 11 palese, 13 figures
Published: 2017

6. Improvements in the simulation code of the SOX experiment

Author: Kai Zuber, Aldo Ianni, K. Choi, J. M. Link, V. Fischer, C. Veyssiere, Marcin Wójcik, A.V. Etenko, M. Gschwender, D. Bravo, A. V. Derbin, S. Farinon, Z. Yokley, C. Galbiati, S. Marcocci, M. Cribier, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, I. N. Machulin, M. Toropova, B. Lehnert, G. Manuzio, V. N. Muratova, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Sandra Zavatarelli, Michael Wurm, Lino Miramonti, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, M. Carlini, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Livia Ludhova, A. Pocar, V. Atroshchenko, A. S. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, O. Smirnov, M. Goeger-Neff, J. Winter, E. V. Unzhakov, S. Weinz, B. Neumair, P. Cavalcante, K. Altenmueller, S. Manecki, Jay Burton Benziger, D. Kryn, G. Korga, M. Misiaszek, K. Fomenko, G. Bellini, Lothar Oberauer, Gioacchino Ranucci, M. Vivier, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, N. Rossi, A. M. Goretti, F. Lombardi, Matthias Laubenstein, Denis Korablev, K. Jedrzejczak, J. Maricic, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Razeto, S. Appel, G. Lukyanchenko, M. S. Meyer, S. Davini, S. Schönert, D. Jeschke, L. Papp, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, D. Franco, R. Musenich, Fausto Ortica, M. Durero, B. Caccianiga, N. Jonquères, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, Y. Suvorov, E. Meroni, G. Bonfini, M. Gromov, Paolo Lombardi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, T. Houdy, Thierry Lasserre, Frank Calaprice, M. Obolensky, I. S. Drachnev, G. Testera, R. Tartaglia, Matteo Agostini, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, W. Maneschg, V. V. Kobychev, L. Scola, G. Zuzel, E. V. Hungerford, A. Vishneva, A. Sotnikov, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, J. Gaffiot, A. Jany, V.N. Kornoukhov, Alessandra Re, R. B. Vogelaar, D. A. Semenov, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) (CEA-DES (ex-DEN)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CEA-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire (CEA-DEN), Caminata, A., Agostini, M., Altenmueeller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Cribier, M., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Durero, M., Etenko, A., Farinon, S., Fischer, V., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Gaffiot, J., Galbiati, C., Gschwender, M., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Houdy, Th., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqueres, N., Jany, A., Jedrzejczak, K., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kornoukhov, V., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Link, J., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Veyssiere, C., Vishneva, A., Vivier, M., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: History, Computer science, antineutrino/e: particle source, programming, 01 natural sciences, Education, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Code (cryptography), Calibration, High activity, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], numerical calculations, 010306 general physics, Borexino, Simulation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, neutrino: sterile, calibration, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, Neutrino
Abstract: 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, NEUTRINO2016, London, UK, 4 Jul 2016 - 9 Jul 2016; Journal of physics / Conference Series 888, 012145 - (2017). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012145, Published by IOP Publ., Bristol
Published: 2017

7. Test of the electron stability with the Borexino detector

Author: D. A. Semenov, D. Kryn, G. Lukyanchenko, K. de Kerret, S. Appel, Matthias Laubenstein, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, R. Tartaglia, M. Carlini, S. Marcocci, S. V. Sukhotin, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, B. Lehnert, O. Zaimidoroga, B. Caccianiga, M. Gromov, K. Choi, H. Wang, B. Neumair, G. Korga, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, V. V. Kobychev, A. Caminata, K. Fomenko, M. Goeger-Neff, A.V. Etenko, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, A. Jany, E. Meroni, D. Bravo, D. Franco, Marco Giammarchi, Alessandra Re, M. M. Wojcik, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, G. Bonfini, E. V. Hungerford, G. Testera, Aldo Romani, Lino Miramonti, A. Sotnikov, Kai Zuber, L. Di Noto, Frank Calaprice, W. Maneschg, F. von Feilitzsch, G. Zuzel, M. Obolensky, Matteo Agostini, Z. Yokley, S. Schönert, K. Altenmüller, Jay Burton Benziger, I. N. Machulin, J. Thurn, L. Papp, R. B. Vogelaar, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, S. Manecki, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, V. Atroshchenko, R. Roncin, V. N. Muratova, D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, Y. Suvorov, A. S. Chepurnov, Fausto Ortica, Gioacchino Ranucci, Lothar Oberauer, M. Toropova, Denis Korablev, G. Manuzio, H. A. Derbin, A. Vishneva, Aldo Ianni, M. S. Meyer, F. Lombardi, D. Jeschke, Paolo Lombardi, A. Razeto, S. Davini, I. S. Drachnev, O. Smirnov, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, E. V. Unzhakov, A. M. Goretti, J. Winter, K. Jedrzejczak, S. Weinz, A. Pocar, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), BOREXINO, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Vishneva, A., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Atroshshenko, V., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., de Kerret, K., Derbin, H. A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jany, A., Jedrzejczak, K., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstien, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimodoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: History, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Electron, 01 natural sciences, Electric charge, Particle detector, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, charge: conservation law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Borexino, Physics, Charge conservation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, new physics, electron: stability, electron: decay, 3. Good health, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, Neutrino, Lepton, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; Despite the fact that the electric charge conservation law is confirmed by many experiments, search for its possible violation remains a way of searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. Experimental searches for the electric charge non-conservation mainly consider electron decays into neutral particles. The Borexino experiment is an excellent tool for the electron decay search due to the highest radiopurity among all the existing experiments, large detector mass, and good sensitivity at low energies. The process considered in this study is a decay into a photon and a neutrino, for which a new lower limit on the electron lifetime is obtained. This is the best electron lifetime limit up to date, exceeding the previous one obtained at the Borexino prototype at two orders of magnitude.
Published: 2017

8. Borexino: Recent results and future plans

Author: A. Vishneva, Matthias Laubenstein, Hui Wang, M. Goeger-Neff, J. Winter, D. Franco, E. Meroni, Marcin Wójcik, V. N. Muratova, F. Lombardi, Denis Korablev, A. Razeto, Alessandra Re, O. Smirnov, C. Ghiano, B. Neumair, G. Korga, Caren Hagner, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, E. V. Unzhakov, K. Fomenko, R. Roncin, I. S. Drachnev, P. Cavalcante, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, M. Obolensky, A. V. Derbin, R. B. Vogelaar, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Misiaszek, Z. Yokley, E. Litvinovich, G. Testera, A. Caminata, Matteo Agostini, N. Rossi, F. Gabriele, S. Schönert, L. Papp, D. Kryn, G. Zuzel, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Yu. Smirnov, Y. Suvorov, M. Gromov, Kai Zuber, Aldo Ianni, E. V. Hungerford, O. Zaimidoroga, Livia Ludhova, R. Tartaglia, Cristiano Galbiati, Andrea Ianni, Lothar Oberauer, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Fausto Ortica, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Sotnikov, L. Perasso, A. Pocar, V. V. Kobychev, A.V. Etenko, G. Bonfini, P. J. Mosteiro, B. Lehnert, Michele Montuschi, D. Bravo, Frank Calaprice, D. A. Semenov, Gioacchino Ranucci, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, Hardy Simgen, Manuel Meyer, Marco Giammarchi, Paolo Lombardi, W. Maneschg, S. Davini, J. Thurn, S. Weinz, K. Jedrzejczak, I. N. Machulin, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, S. Manecki, S. Appel, B. Caccianiga, M. Kaiser, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Bellini, Lino Miramonti, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), BOREXINO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Smirnov, O. Yu., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schonert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Automatic Keywords, Neutrino detector, SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Borexino, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics
Abstract: International audience; Borexino is continuing to take data and presenting the new results. The most recent Borexino results are discussed and plans for the nearest future are presented.
Published: 2017

9. Solar neutrino detectors as sterile neutrino hunters

Author: Aldo Ianni, S. Marcocci, M. Cribier, M. S. Meyer, M. Toropova, O. Smirnov, V.N. Kornoukhov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, L. Papp, Michael Wurm, E. V. Unzhakov, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. V. Derbin, Z. Yokley, Alessandra Re, V. Fischer, S. Manecki, S. Farinon, Fausto Ortica, A. Caminata, F. Gabriele, V. Atroshchenko, Marcin Wójcik, Paolo Lombardi, Thierry Lasserre, G. Bonfini, M. Gschwender, D. Jeschke, Frank Calaprice, M. Goeger-Neff, P. J. Mosteiro, R. B. Vogelaar, V. N. Muratova, R. Tartaglia, Michele Montuschi, Lothar Oberauer, F. von Feilitzsch, K. Altenmüller, N. Jonquères, A.V. Etenko, S. Schönert, O. Zaimidoroga, Matthias Laubenstein, J. Winter, H. Wang, D. Bravo, D. A. Semenov, I. S. Drachnev, P. Cavalcante, V. V. Kobychev, Lino Miramonti, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, A. Pocar, D. Franco, J. Maricic, W. Maneschg, R. Musenich, M. Carlini, G. Lukyanchenko, C. Ghiano, G. Testera, E. Meroni, B. Neumair, Caren Hagner, K. Fomenko, Matteo Agostini, Y. Reinert, O. Cloué, Gioacchino Ranucci, L. Scola, D. Kryn, M. Gromov, M. Durero, M. Vivier, T. Houdy, Cristiano Galbiati, Y. Suvorov, S. Davini, M. Misiaszek, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, N. Rossi, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, Denis Korablev, G. Bellini, G. Korga, C. Veyssiere, A. Vishneva, K. Choi, I. N. Machulin, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, S. Appel, J. M. Link, Jay Burton Benziger, B. Caccianiga, Kai Zuber, N. Berton, J. Gaffiot, K. Jedrzejczak, B. Lehnert, S. Weinz, G. Zuzel, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, A. Jany, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service des Réacteurs et de Mathématiques Appliquées (SERMA), Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), CEA-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire (CEA-DEN), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-CEA-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire (CEA-DEN), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Borexino-SOX, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) (CEA-DES (ex-DEN)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) (CEA-DES (ex-DEN)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), and Service d’Études des Réacteurs et de Mathématiques Appliquées (SERMA)
Subjects: History, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Education, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, nuclide, Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, neutrino: sterile, Computer Science Applications, praseodymium, Gran Sasso, neutrino: detector, Neutrino detector, cerium: nuclide, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, antineutrino: particle source, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; The large size and the very low radioactive background of solar neutrino detectors such as Borexino at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy offer a unique opportunity to probe the existence of neutrino oscillations into new sterile components by means of carefully designed and well calibrated anti-neutrino and neutrino artificial sources. In this paper we briefly summarise the key elements of the SOX experiment, a program for the search of sterile neutrinos (and other short distance effects) by means of a (144)Ce-(144)Pr anti-neutrino source and, possibly in the medium term future, with a (51)Cr neutrino source.
Published: 2016

10. Understanding the detector behavior through Montecarlo and calibration studies in view of the SOX measurement

Author: Z. Yokley, V.N. Kornoukhov, M. Vivier, Alessandra Re, Marcin Wójcik, Lothar Oberauer, K. Jedrzejczak, R. B. Vogelaar, C. Veyssiere, Tobias Lachenmaier, Jay Burton Benziger, Marco Giammarchi, Aldo Ianni, K. Choi, E. V. Hungerford, Matthias Laubenstein, A. Pocar, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, D. Kryn, B. Lehnert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, J. M. Link, Lino Miramonti, P. J. Mosteiro, Y. Suvorov, A. Sotnikov, M. Kaiser, Livia Ludhova, N. Berton, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Michele Montuschi, A. M. Goretti, S. Weinz, Matteo Agostini, O. Smirnov, E. Meroni, Anton Empl, M. Goeger-Neff, A. S. Chepurnov, P. Cavalcante, Kai Zuber, D. A. Semenov, E. V. Unzhakov, Aldo Romani, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, J. Winter, L. Di Noto, N. Rossi, G. Lukyanchenko, M. Misiaszek, K. Altenmüller, D. Franco, V. N. Muratova, G. Bellini, L. Scola, S. Manecki, B. Neumair, S. Davini, V. Fischer, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, S. Schönert, G. Zuzel, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, A. Vishneva, G. Testera, M. Cribier, S. Marcocci, A. V. Derbin, S. Farinon, M. Toropova, J. Maricic, F. von Feilitzsch, Denis Korablev, G. Bonfini, J. Gaffiot, Frank Calaprice, I. N. Machulin, Hardy Simgen, L. Perasso, L. Papp, Gioacchino Ranucci, Fausto Ortica, D. D'Angelo, S. Appel, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, B. Caccianiga, M. Durero, Cristiano Galbiati, R. Tartaglia, W. Maneschg, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Thierry Lasserre, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, M. Obolensky, M. S. Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, R. Musenich, N. Jonquères, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, I. S. Drachnev, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Caminata, A., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Berton, N., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravos, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Cribier, M., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Durero, M., Empl, A., Etenko, A., Farinon, S., Fischer, V., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Gaffiot, J., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqueres, N., Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kornoukhov, V., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Link, J., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Veyssiere, C., Vishneva, A., Vivier, M., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: History, Geoneutrino, Calibration (statistics), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear engineering, Monte Carlo method, 01 natural sciences, programming, Particle detector, Education, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Simulation, Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, neutrino: sterile, calibration, Computer Science::Computers and Society, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, performance
Abstract: International audience; Borexino is an unsegmented neutrino detector operating at LNGS in central Italy. The experiment has shown its performances through its unprecedented accomplishments in the solar and geoneutrino detection. These performances make it an ideal tool to accomplish a state- of-the-art experiment able to test the existence of sterile neutrinos (SOX experiment). For both the solar and the SOX analysis, a good understanding of the detector response is fundamental. Consequently, calibration campaigns with radioactive sources have been performed over the years. The calibration data are of extreme importance to develop an accurate Monte Carlo code. This code is used in all the neutrino analyses. The Borexino-SOX calibration techniques and program and the advances on the detector simulation code in view of the start of the SOX data taking are presented. (1)
Published: 2016

11. Overview and accomplishments of the Borexino experiment

Author: A.V. Etenko, A. V. Derbin, D. Bravo, M. Kaiser, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Kai Zuber, R. Tartaglia, M. Goeger-Neff, J. Winter, G. Lukyanchenko, Jay Burton Benziger, D. Franco, I. S. Drachnev, E. Litvinovich, Denis Korablev, A. Vishneva, N. Rossi, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, G Bellini, K. Jedrzejczak, W. Maneschg, S. Schönert, S. Manecki, B. Neumair, B. Lehnert, M. Gromov, V. N. Muratova, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, M. S. Meyer, Y. Suvorov, D. A. Semenov, Marcin Wójcik, Livia Ludhova, S. Weinz, L. Perasso, G. Zuzel, E. V. Hungerford, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, F. von Feilitzsch, Paolo Lombardi, F. Lombardi, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Cristiano Galbiati, D. Kryn, M. Obolensky, A. Razeto, A. Sotnikov, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, G. Testera, S. Marcocci, Lino Miramonti, A. Pocar, M. Toropova, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Smirnov, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, E. V. Unzhakov, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, S. Appel, R. B. Vogelaar, Marco Giammarchi, Aldo Ianni, Matteo Agostini, B. Caccianiga, S. Davini, Alessandra Re, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, I. N. Machulin, D. D'Angelo, Z. Yokley, Lothar Oberauer, Matthias Laubenstein, E. Meroni, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Borexino, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ranucci, G., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: History, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, review, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, neutrino: flux, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), energy: solar, star, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Borexino, Physics, Solar energetic particles, business.industry, background, Astronomy, oscillation, Solar energy, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, Massless particle, NEUTRINOS, Neutrino detector, Physics::Space Physics, Neutrino, business, Lepton
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino experiment is running at the Laboratori del Gran Sasso in Italy since 2007. Its technical distinctive feature is the unprecedented ultralow background of the inner scintillating core, which is the basis of the outstanding achievements accumulated by the experiment. In this talk, after recalling the main features of the detector, the impressive solar data gathered so far by the experiment will be summarized, with special emphasis to the most recent and prominent result concerning the detection of the fundamental pp solar neutrino flux, which is the direct probe of the engine mechanism powering our star. Such a milestone measurement puts Borexino in the unique situation of being the only experiment able to do solar neutrino spectroscopy over the entire solar spectrum, the counterpart of this peculiar status in the oscillation interpretation of the data is the capability of Borexino alone to perform the full validation across the solar energy range of the MSW-LMA paradigm. The talk will be concluded highlighting the perspectives for the final stage of the solar program of the experiment, centered on the goal to fully complete the solar spectroscopy with the missing piece of the CNO neutrinos. If successful, such a measurement would represent the final crowning of the long quest of Borexino to unravel all the properties of the neutrinos from the Sun.
Published: 2016

12. The high precision measurement of the 144Ce activity in the SOX experiment

Author: M Kaiser, Lino Miramonti, A Caminata, O Zaimidoroga, E. Hungerford, M. S. Meyer, G. Korga, S Marcocci, P Mosteiro, C Hagner, F. von Feilitzsch, S Farinon, V. Fischer, M Obolensky, O. Smirnov, A. Razeto, M. Durero, K Fomenko, C Galbiati, M Cribier, E Litvinovich, J. Gaffiot, Paolo Lombardi, M Wurm, M. Vivier, C Veyssière, V. N. Muratova, D. Kryn, M Montuschi, Thierry Lasserre, Matteo Agostini, K Choi, G Bellini, E Unzhakov, N. Rossi, L Perasso, I. S. Drachnev, L Scola, A. V. Derbin, M. Goeger-Neff, R. Tartaglia, H Wang, Jay Burton Benziger, Aldo Romani, T Lachenmaier, P. Cavalcante, N Jonquères, R. Musenich, M. Misiaszek, W Maneschg, L. Di Noto, A. Pocar, K. Althenmüller, N Berton, S. Schönert, D. Bravo Berguño, F. Lombardi, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, Lothar Oberauer, S. Davini, S. Manecki, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, T. Houdy, G. Testera, T. Lehnert, Gioacchino Ranucci, D Semenov, Andrea Ianni, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Cereseto, G Mention, D DAngelo, Kai Zuber, Marcin Wójcik, Y. Suvorov, M. Skorokhvatov, S. Zavatarelli, Livia Ludhova, V. V. Kobychev, D Bick, A. S. Chepurnov, A Goretti, Marco Pallavicini, S Weinz, F. Gabriele, Denis Korablev, J Link, G. Lukyanchenko, J. Winter, A Etenko, D. Franco, C Ghiano, Marco Giammarchi, G. Zuzel, Z Yokley, J. Maricic, S. Appel, R. B. Vogelaar, L. Papp, C Rossi, B Caccianiga, S. Sukhotin, I. N. Machulin, K Jedrzejczak, Fausto Ortica, M. Gromov, B. Neumair, V.N. Kornoukhov, M Toropova, Alessandra Re, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, E Meroni, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), SOX, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Di Noto, L., Agostini, M., Althenmueller, K., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Berton, N., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo-Berguno, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Cereseto, R., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Cribier, M., Dangelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Drachnev, I., Durero, M., Etenko, A., Farinon, S., Fischer, V., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Gaffiot, J., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Houdy, Th, Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqueres, N., Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kornoukhov, V., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, T., Link, J., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, C., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Unzhakov, E., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: History, Particle physics, Water flow, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, tungsten, water, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Education, Physics::Geophysics, thermal, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), alloy, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, background: radioactivity, Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, precision measurement, calorimeter: design, Detector, antineutrino, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, cerium, flow, Measuring instrument, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino, Lepton
Abstract: International audience; In order to perform a resolutive measurement to clarify the neutrino anomalies and to observe possible short distance neutrino oscillations, the SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino) experiment is under construction. In the first phase, a 100 kCi (144)Ce-(144)Pr antineutrino source will be placed under the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), in center of Italy, and the rate measurement of the antineutrino events, observed by the very low radioactive background Borexino detector, will be compared with the high precision (< 1%) activity measurement performed by two calorimeters. The source will be embedded in a 19 mm thick tungsten alloy shield and both the calorimeters have been conceived for measuring the thermal heat absorbed by a water flow. In this report the design of the calorimeters will be described in detail and very preliminary results will be also shown.
Published: 2016

13. First real time detection of 7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino

Author: A. Martemianov, S. Gazzana, K. McCarty, Andrew Sonnenschein, Malcolm J. Joyce, M. Misiaszek, Cristiano Galbiati, S. Vitale, G. Manuzio, S. Hardy, C. Salvo, O. Smirnov, Hardy Simgen, Matthias Laubenstein, V. Muratova, M. E. Monzani, O. Zaimidoroga, A. Pocar, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, A.V. Etenko, Aldo Ianni, M. Goeger-Neff, G. Testera, A. Razeto, Livia Ludhova, V. G. Tarasenkov, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, R. Tartaglia, L. Papp, G. Bellini, R. J. Ford, R. S. Raghavan, Marco Giammarchi, C. Arpesella, S. Bonetti, Marcin Wójcik, G. Korga, D. Kryn, Fausto Masetti, A. A. Sabelnikov, Paolo Lombardi, M. Skorokhvatov, C. Grieb, S. V. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. B. Vogelaar, Martin Deutsch, S. Schönert, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, L. Perasso, Fausto Ortica, I. Machulin, E. Litvinovich, B. Caccianiga, F. Calaprice, F. von Feilitzsch, L. Niedermeier, Michael K.H. Leung, B. Freudiger, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, K. Fomenko, J. Benziger, G. Zuzel, A. Sotnikov, A. Derbin, E. Meroni, A. Goretti, G. Heusser, Gioacchino Ranucci, D. Montanari, D. Vignaud, Lino Miramonti, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Borexino, Arpesella, C., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Low background detector, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Liquid scintillator, Neutrino oscillation, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Neutrino Oscillations, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Borexino, Physics, ICARUS, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, Low Background Detectors, Liquid Scintillators, 3. Good health, Solar Neutrinos, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Neutrino detector, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: This paper reports a direct measurement of the Be7 solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino low background liquid scintillator detector. This is the first real-time spectral measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos. The result for 0.862 MeV Be7 is 47 +- 7 (stat} +- 12 (sys} counts/(day x 100 ton), consistent with predictions of Standard Solar Models and neutrino oscillations with LMA-MSW parameters., Paper submitted to PRLB. 9 pages, 6 figures (EPS) PDF files included into tar.gz file, together with LaTeX source, eps figs and style files
Published: 2008

14. The $^{144}$Ce source for SOX

Author: A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, Marcin Wójcik, A. Caminata, Matthias Laubenstein, E. V. Unzhakov, D. Kryn, Aldo Ianni, T. Lasserre, S. Appel, L. Papp, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, M. Vivier, E. Meroni, K. Jedrzejczak, Fausto Ortica, Z. Yokley, A. V. Derbin, J. Thurn, B. Caccianiga, D. A. Semenov, S. Farinon, M. Obolensky, B. Lehnert, L. Scola, C. Veyssiere, Kai Zuber, K. Choi, N. Jonqueres, M. Gromov, Lothar Oberauer, S. Weinz, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, Alessandra Re, T. Houdy, S. Manecki, G. Testera, Cristiano Galbiati, J. Maricic, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, N. Rossi, Jay Burton Benziger, I. N. Machulin, L. Perasso, N. Berton, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, V. Fischer, G. Bonfini, Denis Korablev, C. Ghiano, Matteo Agostini, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, Frank Calaprice, Suvorov, M. Cribier, Hardy Simgen, M. Kaiser, M. Goeger-Neff, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Davini, I. S. Drachnev, J. Winter, B. Neumair, Livia Ludhova, G. Korga, D. Franco, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, M. S. Meyer, K. Fomenko, G. Lukyanchenko, M. Durero, J. M. Link, R. Tartaglia, Paolo Lombardi, S. V. Sukhotin, F. von Feilitzsch, Lino Miramonti, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, W. Maneschg, V. V. Kobychev, Michele Montuschi, G. Bellini, Caren Hagner, R. Roncin, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, Kornoukhov, S. Schönert, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Gioacchino Ranucci, J. Gaffiot, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, F. Gabriele, V. N. Muratova, R. Musenich, G. Zuzel, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, K. Altenmüller, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Borexino, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: History, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, energy: decay, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph], Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, particle source, Borexino, Physics, lifetime, nucleus, Secular equilibrium, neutrino: sterile, antineutrino, sensitivity, Spent nuclear fuel, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, cerium, Decay energy, radioactivity, neutrino: oscillation, production, Neutrino
Abstract: International audience; The SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino) project aims at testing the light sterile neutrino hypothesis. To do so, two artificials sources of antineutrinos and neutrinos respectively will be consecutively deployed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in close vicinity to Borexino, a large liquid scintillator detector. This document reports on the source production and transportation. The source should exhibit a long lifetime and a high decay energy, a requirement fullfilled by the (144)Ce-(144)Pr pair at secular equilibrium. It will be produced at FSUE “Mayak” PA using spent nuclear fuel. It will then be shielded and packed according to international regulation and shipped to LNGS across Europe. Knowledge of the Cerium antineutrino generator (CeANG) parameters is crucial for SOX as it can strongly impact the experiment sensitivity. Several apparatuses are being used or designed to characterize CeANG activity, radioactive emission and content. An overview of the measurements performed so far is presented here.
Published: 2015

15. Measurement of Solar pp-neutrino flux with Borexino: results and implications

Author: Aldo Ianni, A.V. Etenko, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, D. Bravo, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, I. S. Drachnev, Denis Korablev, M. Obolensky, E. V. Unzhakov, D. D'Angelo, Marco Giammarchi, G. Testera, S. Appel, B. Lehnert, D. Kryn, Jay Burton Benziger, R. B. Vogelaar, Z. Yokley, S. Weinz, B. Caccianiga, F. Lombardi, Lino Miramonti, Matteo Agostini, M. S. Meyer, G. Lukyanchenko, Kai Zuber, Alessandra Re, Marcin Wójcik, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, A. Razeto, M. Goeger-Neff, Paolo Lombardi, S. Davini, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Cristiano Galbiati, J. Winter, G. Bellini, K. Jedrzejczak, Lothar Oberauer, D. Franco, B. Neumair, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, P. Cavalcante, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, S. V. Sukhotin, Matthias Laubenstein, L. Papp, O. Yu. Smirnov, D. A. Semenov, L. Perasso, A. Vishneva, M. Misiaszek, M. Kaiser, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, O Machulin, A. Pocar, V. V. Kobychev, Aldo Romani, G. Bonfini, Fausto Ortica, Frank Calaprice, E. Meroni, S. Manecki, L. Di Noto, V. N. Muratova, Hardy Simgen, F. von Feilitzsch, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, A. V. Derbin, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, S. Schönert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. Gromov, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, G. Zuzel, R. Tartaglia, W. Maneschg, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Borexino, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Smirnov, O. Yu, Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: model: solar, History, neutrino: solar, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, luminosity: solar, Solar luminosity, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino: flux, Education, Luminosity, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, DETECTOR, Borexino, MSW effect, Physics, Standard solar model, Solar energetic particles, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, photon, Astronomy, Solar neutrino problem, stability, oscillation, Computer Science Applications, p p, 13. Climate action, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; Measurement of the Solar pp-neutrino flux completed the measurement of Solar neutrino fluxes from the pp-chain of reactions in Borexino experiment. The result is in agreement with the prediction of the Standard Solar Model and the MSW/LMA oscillation scenario. A comparison of the total neutrino flux from the Sun with Solar luminosity in photons provides a test of the stability of the Sun on the 10(5) years time scale, and sets a strong limit on the power production by the unknown energy sources in the Sun.
Published: 2015

16. CNO and pep solar neutrino measurements and perspectives in Borexino

Author: Denis Korablev, G. Bellini, A. Pocar, A. Vishneva, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Matthias Laubenstein, D. A. Semenov, O. Smirnov, E. V. Hungerford, Alessandra Re, Y. Suvorov, M. Kaiser, Cristiano Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, J. Thurn, A. Sotnikov, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, R. Roncin, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, E. V. Unzhakov, L. Perasso, S. Manecki, B. Lehnert, Aldo Ianni, R. Tartaglia, Matteo Agostini, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Jay Burton Benziger, F. Lombardi, Kai Zuber, S. Appel, V. N. Muratova, A. Razeto, W. Maneschg, E. Meroni, C. Ghiano, S. Weinz, G. Testera, Caren Hagner, D. Kryn, M. S. Meyer, Z. Yokley, Lino Miramonti, G. Lukyanchenko, Marcin Wójcik, I. S. Drachnev, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, P. Cavalcante, G. Zuzel, A. V. Derbin, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Misiaszek, Gioacchino Ranucci, M. Gromov, Lothar Oberauer, K. Jedrzejczak, S. Schönert, Marco Giammarchi, Paolo Lombardi, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, M. Obolensky, S. Davini, B. Caccianiga, I. N. Machulin, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, F. Gabriele, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, B. Neumair, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, F. von Feilitzsch, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, M. Goeger-Neff, J. Winter, D. Franco, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Borexino, Davini, S., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: model: solar, History, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), talk: Moscow 2015/10/05, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, MSW effect, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, Computer Science Applications, Massless particle, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino, Lepton, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; The detection of neutrinos emitted in the CNO reactions in the Sun is one of the ambitious goals of Borexino Phase-II. A measurement of CNO neutrinos would be a milestone in astrophysics, and would allow to solve serious issues in current solar models. A precise measurement of the rate of neutrinos from the pep reaction would allow to investigate neutrino oscillations in the MSW transition region. The pep and CNO solar neutrino physics, the measurement in Borexino Phase-I and the perspectives for the new phase are reviewed in this proceeding.
Published: 2015

17. SOX: search for short baseline neutrino oscillations with Borexino

Author: G. Lukyanchenko, M. Cribier, P. J. Mosteiro, N. Berton, Michele Montuschi, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, G. Bellini, Cristiano Galbiati, O. Smirnov, Matteo Agostini, S. Schönert, A. Caminata, D. A. Semenov, F. von Feilitzsch, G. Bonfini, Z. Yokley, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, E. V. Unzhakov, P. Cavalcante, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, R. B. Vogelaar, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, M. Misiaszek, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Frank Calaprice, Jay Burton Benziger, A. V. Derbin, S. Farinon, Lothar Oberauer, N. Rossi, Matthias Laubenstein, Lino Miramonti, G. Testera, C. Veyssiere, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, Aldo Ianni, A. Pocar, Denis Korablev, K. Altenmüller, V. N. Muratova, J. Maricic, S. Appel, E. Meroni, M. D. Skorokhvatov, M. Kaiser, B. Neumair, V.N. Kornoukhov, Michael Wurm, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, Marcin Wójcik, Y. Suvorov, B. Caccianiga, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Alessandra Re, Aldo Romani, Fausto Ortica, L. Di Noto, I. N. Machulin, M. Durero, M. Vivier, S. Manecki, S. Marcocci, D. D'Angelo, M. Toropova, Thierry Lasserre, R. Tartaglia, W. Maneschg, K. Jedrzejczak, N Jonquàres, B. Lehnert, S. Weinz, Gioacchino Ranucci, D. Kryn, S. Davini, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, L. Perasso, M. Goeger-Neff, J. Winter, D. Franco, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, E. V. Hungerford, V. Fischer, A. Sotnikov, I. S. Drachnev, Kai Zuber, G. Zuzel, R. Musenich, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, K. Choi, J. M. Link, M. S. Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, J Gaffliot, S. V. Sukhotin, L. Scola, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, M. Obolensky, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Borexino, Vivier, M., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Berton, N., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Cribier, M., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Durero, M., Etenko, A., Farinon, S., Fischer, V., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Gafflot, J., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqueres, N., Jedrzejczak, K., Kaisers, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kornoukhov, V., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Link, J., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Meroni, E., Meyers, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Veyssiere, C., Unzhakov, E., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: History, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, chromium: nuclide, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Education, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, activity report, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, neutrino: particle source, Solar neutrino problem, neutrino: sterile, sensitivity, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, cerium: nuclide, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino, antineutrino: particle source
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino detector has convincingly shown its outstanding performances in the low energy regime through its accomplishments in the observation and study of the solar and geo neutrinos. It is then an ideal tool to perform a state of the art source-based experiment for testing the longstanding hypothesis of a fourth sterile neutrino with ~ eV(2) mass, as suggested by several anomalies accumulated over the past three decades in source, reactor, and accelerator-based experiments. The SOX project aims at successively deploying two intense radioactive sources, made of Cerium (antineutrino) and Chromium (neutrino), respectively, in a dedicated pit located beneath the detector. The existence of such an ~ eV(2) sterile neutrino would then show up as an unambiguous spatial and energy distortion in the count rate of neutrinos interacting within the active detector volume. This article reports on the latest developments about the first phase of the SOX experiment, namely CeSOX, and gives a realistic projection of CeSOX sensitivity to light sterile neutrinos in a simple (3+1) model.
Published: 2015

18. Spectroscopy of geoneutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data

Author: C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, B. Lehnert, F. Lombardi, P. J. Mosteiro, P. Cavalcante, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Z. Yokley, M. Misiaszek, F. Gabriele, Barbara Ricci, R. Tartaglia, A. Caminata, A. Razeto, S. Weinz, F. von Feilitzsch, Fabio Mantovani, M. Montuschi, Lothar Oberauer, W. Maneschg, Anton Empl, L. Papp, J. Winter, S. Davini, Aldo Ianni, Matthias Laubenstein, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Zuzel, Lino Miramonti, I. S. Drachnev, K. Fomenko, Fausto Ortica, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. V. Derbin, K. Jedrzejczak, S. V. Sukhotin, T. Houdy, Aldo Romani, Livia Ludhova, L. Di Noto, O. Zaimidoroga, Michael Meyer, E. Meroni, G. Testera, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Marco Giammarchi, Cristiano Galbiati, Y. Suvorov, M. Goeger-Neff, Giovanni Fiorentini, H. Wang, B. Neumair, M. Kaiser, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, Matteo Agostini, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, L. Pagani, V. V. Kobychev, G. Lukyanchenko, R. B. Vogelaar, D. Korablev, S. Manecki, K. Choi, M. Gromov, V. N. Muratova, S. Schönert, Alessandra Re, L. Perasso, A. Pocar, D. A. Semenov, D. Franco, G. Bonfini, I. N. Machulin, D. Kryn, Frank Calaprice, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Hardy Simgen, S. Appel, Gioacchino Ranucci, Kai Zuber, G. Korga, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, B. Caccianiga, Paolo Lombardi, M. Obolensky, Marcin Wójcik, O. Smirnov, K. Otis, E. V. Unzhakov, G. Bellini, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Dept. Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Jussieu)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), departement de physique, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agostini, M., Suvorov, Yury, Et, Al., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Geoneutrino, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NO, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Spectroscopy, Borexino, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Radiogenic nuclide, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, geo neutrinos, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Thorium, geo neutrinos, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), chemistry, 13. Climate action, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: We report an improved geo-neutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking. The present exposure is $(5.5\pm0.3)\times10^{31}$ proton$\times$yr. Assuming a chondritic Th/U mass ratio of 3.9, we obtain $23.7 ^{+6.5}_{-5.7} (stat) ^{+0.9}_{-0.6} (sys)$ geo-neutrino events. The null observation of geo-neutrinos with Borexino alone has a probability of $3.6 \times 10^{-9}$ (5.9$\sigma$). A geo-neutrino signal from the mantle is obtained at 98\% C.L. The radiogenic heat production for U and Th from the present best-fit result is restricted to the range 23-36 TW, taking into account the uncertainty on the distribution of heat producing elements inside the Earth., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2015

19. Measurement of neutrino flux from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun with Borexino detector

Author: Anton Empl, R. Tartaglia, W. Maneschg, E. V. Hungerford, K. Otis, E. V. Unzhakov, D. Kryn, Denis Korablev, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, A. Sotnikov, B. Neumair, V. N. Muratova, B. Lehnert, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, L. Perasso, C. Ghiano, Z. Yokley, S. V. Sukhotin, Hui Wang, Caren Hagner, O. Yu. Smirnov, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, O. Zaimidoroga, A. Pocar, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Weinz, I. N. Machulin, M. Goeger-Neff, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, V. V. Kobychev, P. Cavalcante, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Jay Burton Benziger, S. Marcocci, J. Winter, M. Toropova, G. Testera, P. J. Mosteiro, Marcin Wójcik, M. Misiaszek, Matteo Agostini, S. Davini, L. Papp, Lothar Oberauer, G. Bellini, S. Appel, M. Obolensky, D. A. Semenov, D. Franco, Matthias Laubenstein, F. Gabriele, Fausto Ortica, K. Jedrzejczak, S. Schönert, Alessandra Re, M. Kaiser, Gioacchino Ranucci, Y. Suvorov, G. Bonfini, Aldo Romani, Frank Calaprice, G. Zuzel, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, B. Caccianiga, L. Di Noto, L. Pagani, Hardy Simgen, G. Lukyanchenko, E. Meroni, Lino Miramonti, R. B. Vogelaar, Manuel Meyer, Marco Giammarchi, A. Caminata, Aldo Ianni, Paolo Lombardi, S. Manecki, J. Thurn, A. V. Derbin, Cristiano Galbiati, Kai Zuber, K. Choi, R. Roncin, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, M. Gromov, I. S. Drachnev, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Smirnov, O. Yu., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Empl, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Otis, K., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Nuclear reaction, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, luminosity: solar, Solar luminosity, PP, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, nuclear reaction, neutrino: flux, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear Experiment, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Borexino, p p: interaction, Physics, Detector, photon, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 3. Good health, neutrino: detector, Neutrino detector, Physics::Space Physics, Neutrino, Energy source, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], PHYSICS, Nuclear physics, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], SOLAR, 010306 general physics, p p: fusion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, stability, CLIMATE, 13. Climate action, LUMINOSITY, High Energy Physics::Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: Neutrino produced in a chain of nuclear reactions in the Sun starting from the fusion of two protons, for the first time has been detected in a real-time detector in spectrometric mode. The unique properties of the Borexino detector provided an oppurtunity to disentangle pp-neutrino spectrum from the background components. A comparison of the total neutrino flux from the Sun with Solar luminosity in photons provides a test of the stability of the Sun on the 10$^{5}$ years time scale, and sets a strong limit on the power production in the unknown energy sources in the Sun of no more than 4\% of the total energy production at 90\% C.L., 15 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures
Published: 2015

20. A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino

Author: E. V. Hungerford, M. Kaiser, A. Empl, A. Sotnikov, A. Pocar, G. Lukyanchenko, M. Obolensky, F. Lombardi, Jay Burton Benziger, P. J. Mosteiro, K. Jedrzejczak, D. Kryn, Hui Wang, Marcin Wójcik, Matteo Agostini, M. Goeger-Neff, Alessandra Re, Aldo Romani, B. Lehnert, J. Winter, V. N. Muratova, L. Di Noto, A. Razeto, Michael Meyer, L. Perasso, D. Franco, M. Montuschi, S. Weinz, O. Smirnov, S. V. Sukhotin, A.V. Etenko, A. Caminata, I. N. Machulin, O. Zaimidoroga, E. V. Unzhakov, D. Bravo, A. V. Derbin, M. Gromov, G. Zuzel, Aldo Ianni, Kai Zuber, V. V. Kobychev, Y. Suvorov, D. A. Semenov, Livia Ludhova, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, J. Thurn, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, G. Testera, Cristiano Galbiati, Gioacchino Ranucci, I. S. Drachnev, S. Appel, R. B. Vogelaar, Paolo Lombardi, Marco Giammarchi, S. Davini, G. Korga, B. Caccianiga, S. Schönert, K. Fomenko, Z. Yokley, Lothar Oberauer, Matthias Laubenstein, S. Manecki, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, E. Meroni, A. Vishneva, G. Bellini, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, Lino Miramonti, R. Tartaglia, W. Maneschg, F. Gabriele, K. Otis, D. Korablev, G. Bonfini, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, R. Roncin, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, F. von Feilitzsch, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, B. Neumair, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Dept. Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg], Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Jussieu)), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), departement de physique, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agostini, M., Suvorov, Y., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Orders of magnitude (temperature), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Scintillator, Electric charge, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), ddc:550, Nuclear Experiment, Borexino, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Liquid scintillation counting, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio-purity of the scintillator, and to the well understood detector response at low energy, a new limit on the stability of the electron for decay into a neutrino and a single mono-energetic photon was obtained. This new bound, tau > 6.6 10**28 yr at 90 % C.L., is two orders of magnitude better than the previous limit., 5 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2015
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21. Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future

Author: D. Kryn, L. Papp, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, M. S. Meyer, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, G. Zuzel, Fausto Ortica, I. N. Machulin, A. Vishneva, E. V. Hungerford, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, A. V. Derbin, R. Tartaglia, A. Sotnikov, Paolo Lombardi, W. Maneschg, G. Testera, Hui Wang, S. Appel, M. Goeger-Neff, Marco Giammarchi, Denis Korablev, M. Gromov, R. B. Vogelaar, F. von Feilitzsch, J. Winter, M. Obolensky, Matteo Agostini, K. Jedrzejczak, G. Bellini, D. Franco, C. Ghiano, Kai Zuber, S. Davini, Caren Hagner, L. Perasso, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, B. Caccianiga, P. Cavalcante, B. Lehnert, A.V. Etenko, M. Misiaszek, D. Bravo, G. Bonfini, Alessandra Re, D. A. Semenov, S. Weinz, Frank Calaprice, A. Caminata, Hardy Simgen, I. S. Drachnev, Aldo Ianni, V. N. Muratova, S. V. Sukhotin, B. Neumair, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Lino Miramonti, V. V. Kobychev, S. Schönert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Pocar, Gioacchino Ranucci, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, O. Smirnov, E. V. Unzhakov, Marcin Wójcik, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, S. Manecki, K. Altenmüller, G. Lukyanchenko, Cristiano Galbiati, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, Jay Burton Benziger, F. Gabriele, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Kaiser, E. Meroni, Z. Yokley, Lothar Oberauer, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Borexino, AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D'Angelo, D., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Sterile neutrino, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, QC1-999, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, scintillation counter: liquid, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics and Astronomy (all), Low energy, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, neutrino: energy: low, geophysics, background, Detector, neutrino: flux: measured, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), neutrino: particle source, neutrino: sterile, antineutrino, Gran Sasso, NEUTRINOS, 13. Climate action, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, National laboratory
Abstract: The Borexino experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is an organic liquid scintillator detector conceived for the real time spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos. The data taking campaign phase I (2007 - 2010) has allowed the first independent measurements of 7Be, 8B and pep fluxes as well as the first measurement of anti-neutrinos from the earth. After a purification of the scintillator, Borexino is now in phase II since 2011. We review here the recent results achieved during 2013, concerning the seasonal modulation in the 7Be signal, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds and the updated measurement of geo-neutrinos. We also review the upcoming measurements from phase II data (pp, pep, CNO) and the project SOX devoted to the study of sterile neutrinos via the use of a 51Cr neutrino source and a 144Ce-144Pr antineutrino source placed in close proximity of the active material., 8 pages, 11 figures. To be published as proceedings of Rencontres de Moriond EW 2014
Published: 2014

22. Geo-neutrino results with Borexino

Author: B. Lehnert, L. Papp, A.V. Etenko, G. Bonfini, A. Caminata, Fausto Ortica, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, Y. Suvorov, I. N. Machulin, D. Bravo, Livia Ludhova, D. D'Angelo, S. Weinz, A. M. Goretti, Frank Calaprice, A. S. Chepurnov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Hardy Simgen, Michael Wurm, Matthias Laubenstein, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, S. Schönert, O. Smirnov, F. von Feilitzsch, E. Litvinovich, Denis Korablev, D. A. Semenov, F. Lombardi, M. S. Meyer, N. Rossi, E. V. Hungerford, Marco Giammarchi, A. Razeto, E. V. Unzhakov, C. Ghiano, S. Appel, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Sotnikov, Caren Hagner, R Roncin, E. Meroni, K. Jedrzejczak, R. B. Vogelaar, Kai Zuber, J. Winter, Lino Miramonti, Paolo Lombardi, P. Cavalcante, R. Tartaglia, Matteo Agostini, A. V. Derbin, Z. Yokley, D. Franco, B. Neumair, M. Misiaszek, I. S. Drachnev, S. V. Sukhotin, B. Caccianiga, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Jay Burton Benziger, Marcin Wójcik, Aldo Romani, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Testera, H. Wang, L. Di Noto, W. Maneschg, L. Perasso, G. Zuzel, M. Goeger-Neff, Gioacchino Ranucci, G. Bellini, Lothar Oberauer, V. V. Kobychev, Aldo Ianni, M. Gromov, M. Obolensky, G. Lukyanchenko, V. N. Muratova, A. Pocar, D. Kryn, S. Manecki, M. Kaiser, J. Thurn, Cristiano Galbiati, Alessandra Re, S. Davini, A. Vishneva, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Borexino, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Roncin, R., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: History, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Solar neutrino, scintillation counter: liquid, chemistry.chemical_element, Scintillator, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, thorium, Education, uranium, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), background: low, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Borexino, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Radionuclide, Radiogenic nuclide, Thorium, Mass ratio, nuclide: mass ratio, Computer Science Applications, chemistry, 13. Climate action, radioactivity, GEOPHYSICS, neutrino: geophysics, Neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector primary designed to observe solar neutrinos. Due to its low background level as well as its position in a nuclear free country, Italy, Borexino is also sensitive to geo-neutrinos. Borexino is leading this interdisciplinary field of neutrino geoscience by studying electron antineutrinos which are emitted from the decay of radioactive isotopes present in the crust and the mantle of the Earth. With 2056 days of data taken between December 2007 and March 2015, Borexino observed 77 antineutrino candidates. If we assume a chondritic Th/U mass ratio of 3.9, the number of geo-neutrino events is found to be 23.7(+6.5) (-5.7)(stat) (+0.9)(-0.6) (syst). With this measurement, Borexino alone is able to reject the null geo-neutrino signal at 5.9σ, to claim a geo-neutrino signal from the mantle at 98% C.L. and to restrict the radiogenic heat production for U and Th between 23 and 36 TW.
Published: 2016

23. Test of the electric charge conservation law with Borexino detector

Author: Z. Yokley, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, D. A. Semenov, Kai Zuber, Cristiano Galbiati, L. Perasso, O. Smirnov, E. V. Unzhakov, S. Manecki, G. Bellini, Lothar Oberauer, E. Litvinovich, F. von Feilitzsch, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, N. Rossi, H. Wang, R. Tartaglia, Matthias Laubenstein, A.V. Etenko, G. Lukyanchenko, D. Bravo, Matteo Agostini, K. Jedrzejczak, V. V. Kobychev, A. Vishneva, Marcin Wójcik, M. Gromov, B. Neumair, P. J. Mosteiro, D. D 'Angelo, Michele Montuschi, Lino Miramonti, Gioacchino Ranucci, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, W. Maneschg, B. Lehnert, M. Obolensky, E. Meroni, S. Marcocci, E. V. Hungerford, Fausto Ortica, M. Toropova, V. N. Muratova, S. Davini, S. Weinz, A. Sotnikov, A. Pocar, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, C. Ghiano, F. Gabriele, Caren Hagner, M. S. Meyer, S. Schönert, M. Goeger-Neff, P. Cavalcante, Marco Giammarchi, M. Misiaszek, G. Bonfini, D. Kryn, Paolo Lombardi, Jay Burton Benziger, J. Winter, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, F. Lombardi, Frank Calaprice, G. Zuzel, M. Kaiser, D. Franco, A. V. Derbin, Hardy Simgen, A. Razeto, I. S. Drachnev, I. N. Machulin, S. Appel, G. Testera, Denis Korablev, B. Caccianiga, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, R. B. Vogelaar, Aldo Ianni, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, Alessandra Re, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Vishneva, A., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jedrzejczak, K., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vogelaar, R. B., Von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: GRAN SASSO, +photon+neutrino%22">electron --> photon neutrino, History, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, scintillation counter: liquid, Electron, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Physics::Geophysics, Education, Nuclear physics, SCINTILLATOR, Physics and Astronomy (all), background: low, 0103 physical sciences, charge: conservation law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Borexino, lifetime, Physics, Charge conservation, STABILITY, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, EXPERIMENTAL LIMITS, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, electron: lifetime, Neutrino, DECAY
Abstract: International audience; The new limit on the electron lifetime is obtained from data of the Borexino experiment. The expected signal from the e → γν decay mode is a 256 keV photon detected in liquid scintillator. Because of the extremely low radioactive background level in the Borexino detector it was possible to improve the previous measurement by two orders of magnitude.
Published: 2016

24. Borexino calibrations: Hardware, Methods, and Results

Author: Cristiano Galbiati, A. Razeto, E. Litvinovich, R. Saldanha, F. von Feilitzsch, B. Caccianiga, S. Gazzana, F. Calaprice, Marco Giammarchi, D. Vignaud, Laura Cadonati, Livia Ludhova, A. Kayunov, Jilei Xu, T. Lewke, Fausto Ortica, Y. Suvorov, I. Machulin, G. Zuzel, L. Oberauer, P. Cavalcante, R. Tartaglia, K. Otis, S. Kidner, M. Obolensky, A. E. Chavarria, W. Maneschg, M. Goeger-Neff, M. Skorokhvatov, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, L. Perasso, R. B. Vogelaar, Matthias Laubenstein, V. Muratova, P. J. Mosteiro, A.V. Etenko, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, Lino Miramonti, Alessandra Re, D. Franco, S. V. Sukhotin, G. Korga, Andrea Ianni, D. Bravo, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Wright, V. V. Kobychev, A. Pocar, Stefan Schönert, D. Rountree, A. Derbin, R. S. Raghavan, A. Goretti, D. Korablev, D. Kryn, G. Bonfini, C. Ghiano, N. Rossi, E. Meroni, Paolo Lombardi, G. Bellini, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, C. Salvo, Marcin Wójcik, S. Manecki, M. Buizza Avanzini, S. Hardy, O. Zaimidoroga, K. Fomenko, Hardy Simgen, S. Davini, J. Benziger, F. Lombardi, Gioacchino Ranucci, C. Carraro, D. Montanari, G. Fernandes, S. Perasso, Q. Meindl, Aldo Romani, L. Papp, E. Guardincerri, G. Manuzio, G. Testera, A. A. Sabelnikov, J. Winter, M. Misiaszek, O. Smirnov, H. O. Back, B. Loer, Yusuke Koshio, Borexino collaboration, H, Back, G, Bellini, Suvorov, Yury, and Et, Al.
Subjects: Calorimeter, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physic, Calibration, Environmental science, Neutrino, Instrumentation, Borexino, Mathematical Physics, Remote sensing
Abstract: Borexino was the first experiment to detect solar neutrinos in real-time in the sub-MeV region. In order to achieve high precision in the determination of neutrino rates, the detector design includes an internal and an external calibration system. This paper describes both calibration systems and the calibration campaigns that were carried out in the period between 2008 and 2011. We discuss some of the results and show that the calibration procedures preserved the radiopurity of the scintillator. The calibrations provided a detailed understanding of the detector response and led to a significant reduction of the systematic uncertainties in the Borexino measurements.
Published: 2012

25. Measurement of CNGS muon neutrino speed with Borexino

Author: Y. Suvorov, R. Saldanha, S. V. Sukhotin, T. Lewke, S. Hardy, D. Kryn, Matthias Laubenstein, A. Wright, D. Missiaen, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Korga, M. M. Wojcik, Aldo Romani, Marco Giammarchi, V. V. Kobychev, S. Schoenert, Matthew Jones, B. Caccianiga, G. Cerretto, E. Meroni, C. Ghiano, S. Gazzana, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, I. N. Machulin, P. Spinnato, C. I. De Gaetani, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, P. Cavalcante, V. Pettiti, Alessandra Re, B. Loer, M. Goeger-Neff, M. Misiaszek, P. J. Mosteiro, Paolo Lombardi, Aldo Ianni, M. Obolensky, Yusuke Koshio, S. Manecki, Lothar Oberauer, G. Zuzel, D. Franco, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, R. B. Vogelaar, M. G. Visconti, B. Betti, Jay Burton Benziger, M. Buizza Avanzini, A. Sotnikov, F. Lombardi, Riccardo Barzaghi, A. Razeto, O. Smirnov, D. Passoni, K. Otis, C. Plantard, K. Fomenko, F. von Feilitzsch, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, A. Pocar, S. Perasso, S. Davini, C. Carraro, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, G. Testera, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, Q. Meindl, Denis Korablev, G. Bonfini, Hardy Simgen, P. Alvarez Sanchez, R. Tartaglia, Lino Miramonti, W. Maneschg, J. Serrano, A. Kayunov, E. Guardincerri, A. V. Derbin, Ludovico Biagi, Livia Ludhova, D. Vignaud, H. Esteban, A. M. Goretti, Jingke Xu, Cristiano Galbiati, A. A. Sabelnikov, D. Montanari, G. Bellini, A.V. Etenko, J. Winter, D. Bravo, Gioacchino Ranucci, Livio Pinto, V. N. Muratova, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, C. Salvo, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Borexino, Alvarez Sanchez, P., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Particle physics, Special relativity, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino beam, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Muon neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, neutrino speed, Borexino, Physics, Muon, GPS time-link, special relativity, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutrino detector, neutrino beams, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have measured the speed of muon neutrinos with the Borexino detector using short-bunch CNGS beams. The final result for the difference in time-of-flight between a =17 GeV muon neutrino and a particle moving at the speed of light in vacuum is {\delta}t = 0.8 \pm 0.7stat \pm 2.9sys ns, well consistent with zero., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2012

26. Search for solar axions produced in thep(d,He3)Areaction with Borexino detector

Author: D. Vignaud, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, R. B. Vogelaar, Q. Meindl, Matthias Laubenstein, O. Smirnov, A. Kobychev, Denis Korablev, I. N. Machulin, Aldo Ianni, Alessandra Re, K. Otis, L. Lewke, G. Bonfini, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, M. Buizza Avanzini, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Frank Calaprice, R. Tartaglia, G. Bellini, Jingke Xu, Hardy Simgen, P. A. Romani, S. Hardy, E. Meroni, Cristiano Galbiati, S. Manecki, C. Carraro, W. Maneschg, M. Obolensky, J. Winter, S. Davini, G. Testera, D. Kryn, Lino Miramonti, S. Gazzana, A. Pocar, F. von Feilitzsch, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, Lothar Oberauer, B. Caccianiga, M. Goeger-Neff, M. M. Wojcik, C. Ghiano, E. Litvinovich, A. A. Sabelnikov, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, Jay Burton Benziger, A. V. Derbin, P. Cavalcante, D. Franco, Fausto Ortica, M. Misiaszek, A. Kayunov, E. Guardincerri, S. Perasso, B. Loer, Paolo Lombardi, S. V. Sukhotin, G. Zuzel, Yusuke Koshio, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Sotnikov, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, V. N. Muratova, C. Salvo, D. Montanari, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, P. J. Mosteiro, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, R. Saldanha, S. Schönert, Marco Giammarchi, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, and Sandra Zavatarelli
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Isovector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Inverse, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Axion, Borexino
Abstract: A search for 5.5 MeV solar axions produced in the $p+d\ensuremath{\rightarrow}^{3}\mathrm{He}+\mathrm{A}$ (5.5 MeV) reaction was performed using the Borexino detector. The Compton conversion of axions to photons, $\mathrm{A}+e\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e+\ensuremath{\gamma}$; the axioelectric effect, $\mathrm{A}+e+Z\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e+Z$; the decay of axions into two photons, $\mathrm{A}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}2\ensuremath{\gamma}$; and inverse Primakoff conversion on nuclei, $\mathrm{A}+Z\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\gamma}+Z$, are considered. Model-independent limits on axion-electron (${g}_{Ae}$), axion-photon (${g}_{A\ensuremath{\gamma}}$), and isovector axion-nucleon (${g}_{3AN}$) couplings are obtained: $|{g}_{Ae}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{g}_{3AN}|\ensuremath{\le}5.5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}13}$ and $|{g}_{A\ensuremath{\gamma}}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{g}_{3AN}|\ensuremath{\le}4.6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}11}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{GeV}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ at ${m}_{A}l1\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ (90% confidence level). These limits are 2--4 orders of magnitude stronger than those obtained in previous laboratory-based experiments using nuclear reactors and accelerators.
Published: 2012

27. Cosmic-muon flux and annual modulation in Borexino at 3800 m water-equivalent depth

Author: Jilei Xu, R. Tartaglia, K. Otis, D. Vignaud, G. Testera, C. Carraro, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, Caren Hagner, G. Zuzel, P. J. Mosteiro, T. Lewke, L. Oberauer, J. Benziger, V. N. Muratova, P. Cavalcante, A. Razeto, A. E. Chavarria, G. Manuzio, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, L. Perasso, Gioacchino Ranucci, C. Ghiano, F. Lombardi, S. Davini, M. Misiaszek, Cristiano Galbiati, Y. Suvorov, A. Pocar, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, B. Loer, M. Skorokhvatov, Yusuke Koshio, H. Simgen, Oleg Smirnov, D. Korablev, D. Kryn, C. Salvo, Matthias Laubenstein, G. Bonfini, M. Buizza Avanzini, E. Litvinovich, K. Fomenko, E. Guardincerri, F. von Feilitzsch, J. Winter, R. Saldanha, D. Montanari, R. S. Raghavan, Paolo Lombardi, B. Caccianiga, S. Gazzana, O. Zaimidoroga, A.V. Etenko, S. Hardy, S. V. Sukhotin, F. Calaprice, Laura Cadonati, Marco Giammarchi, D. Bravo, R. B. Vogelaar, Lino Miramonti, A. Wright, M. Goeger-Neff, E. Meroni, Alessandra Re, Fausto Ortica, I. Machulin, Stefan Schönert, D. Franco, G. Bellini, M. Obolensky, Livia Ludhova, A. A. Sabelnikov, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, A. V. Derbin, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. M. Wojcik, S. Perasso, Q. Meindl, Aldo Romani, L. Papp, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, G. Korga, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Borexino, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Bellini, G., Suvorov, Y., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Particle physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], FOS: Physical sciences, Water equivalent, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Relative amplitude, Borexino, Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], COSMIC cancer database, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric temperature, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Modulation, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Muon flux, neutrino experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We have measured the muon flux at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory (3800 m w.e.) to be (3.41 \pm 0.01) \times 10-4m-2s-1 using four years of Borexino data. A modulation of this signal is observed with a period of (366\pm3) days and a relative amplitude of (1.29 \pm 0.07)%. The measured phase is (179 \pm 6) days, corresponding to a maximum on the 28th of June. Using the most complete atmospheric data models available, muon rate fluctuations are shown to be positively correlated with atmospheric temperature, with an effective coefficient {\alpha}T = 0.93 \pm 0.04. This result represents the most precise study of the muon flux modulation for this site and is in good agreement with expectations., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, published on JCAP as JCAP05(2012)015 on May 15th 2012
Published: 2012

28. First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino

Author: A.V. Etenko, A. Pocar, D. Bravo, R. Tartaglia, Livia Ludhova, Denis Korablev, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Razeto, S. Davini, S. Schönert, Marcin Wójcik, G. Manuzio, B. Loer, R. S. Raghavan, C. Ghiano, G. Zuzel, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Obolensky, R. Saldanha, Yusuke Koshio, M. Goeger-Neff, K. Otis, Y. Suvorov, D. Montanari, Alessandra Re, L. Oberauer, A. A. Sabelnikov, P. Cavalcante, A. Derbin, M. Misiaszek, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, Aldo Ianni, Marco Giammarchi, A. Sotnikov, E. Litvinovich, E. Meroni, F. Lombardi, V. Muratova, B. Caccianiga, P. J. Mosteiro, J. Benziger, Andrea Ianni, F. Calaprice, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, C. Salvo, O. Zaimidoroga, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, O. Smirnov, G. Testera, S. Manecki, Aldo Romani, L. Papp, Paolo Lombardi, J. Winter, S. Perasso, S. V. Sukhotin, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Wright, Jingke Xu, Cristiano Galbiati, G. Bellini, S. Hardy, M. Skorokhvatov, Matthias Laubenstein, J. Quirk, T. Lewke, D. Kryn, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Stefano Bonetti, K. Fomenko, S. Gazzana, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, Q. Meindl, F. von Feilitzsch, W. Maneschg, Laura Cadonati, Fausto Ortica, I. Machulin, Lino Miramonti, D. Vignaud, G. Korga, D. Franco, G. Bonfini, M. Buizza Avanzini, Hardy Simgen, C. Carraro, Bellini, G., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Borexino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: History, Metallicity, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrinos, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Main-sequence: late-type stars, Education, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 26.65.+t, 14.60.Lm, 95.55.Vj, 97.20.Jg, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Ordinary neutrinos (nuW bosons, muon, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, Range (particle radiation), Standard solar model, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, pion, cosmic ray detectors, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], and other elementary particle detectors, Computer Science Applications, 3. Good health, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract: We observed, for the first time, solar neutrinos in the 1.0-1.5 MeV energy range. We measured the rate of pep solar neutrino interactions in Borexino to be [3.1+-0.6(stat)+-0.3(syst)] counts/(day x 100 ton) and provided a constraint on the CNO solar neutrino interaction rate of, Submitted to Physical Review Letters (2011)
Published: 2011
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29. Borexino: recent results, detector calibration and future perspectives

Author: Marco Pallavicini, G. Bellini, J. Benziger, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, A. Chavarria, F. Dalnoki-Veress, D. DʼAngelo, S. Davini, H. de Kerret, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, F. von Feilitzsch, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, M. Joyce, V. Kobychev, Y. Koshio, G. Korga, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, M. Leung, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, F. Lombardi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, V. Muratova, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, A. Pocar, R.S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, P. Risso, A. Romani, D. Rountree, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R.B. Vogelaar, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, M. Wurm, A. Wright, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, and G. Zuzel
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Detector, Scintillator, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physics::Geophysics, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, Calibration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, Borexino
Abstract: The Borexino experiment has been running since May 2007 at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory, in Italy. Solar neutrinos are detected with a large unsegmented liquid scintillator detector with unprecedented radioactive purity. The main results obtained include the measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino flux, the measurement of the 8B neutrino flux with electron recoil energy threshold of 3.0 MeV and the first clear detection of geo-neutrinos (see Aldo Ianniʼs talk in these proceedings for further details). Borexino has recently completed a large calibration campaign, and better results on 7Be solar neutrino measurement are expected soon. Short and medium term perspectives are summarized in the conclusions.
Published: 2011

30. Neutrino interactions at few MeV: results from Borexino at Gran Sasso

Author: Laura Perasso, G. Bellini, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, D. DʼAngelo, D. Franco, M. Giammarchi, Y. Koshio, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, G. Ranucci, A. Re, J. Benziger, L. Cadonati, A. Pocar, F. Calaprice, A. Chavarria, F. Dalnoki-Veress, C. Galbiati, A. Goretti, Andrea Ianni, M. Leung, B. Loer, K. McCarty, R. Saldanha, A. Wright, C. Carraro, S. Davini, E. Guardincerri, G. Manuzio, M. Pallavicini, S. Perasso, P. Risso, C. Salvo, G. Testera, S. Zavatarelli, H. de Kerret, D. Kryn, M. Obolensky, D. Vignaud, A. Derbin, V. Muratova, A. Etenko, E. Litvinovich, I. Machulin, A. Sabelnikov, M. Skorokhvatov, S. Sukhotin, K. Fomenko, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, Aldo Ianni, G. Korga, M. Laubenstein, L. Papp, A. Razeto, R. Tartaglia, M. Goeger-Neff, T. Lewke, Q. Meindl, L. Oberauer, F. von Feilitzsch, J. Winter, M. Wurm, C. Grieb, S. Hardy, M. Joyce, S. Manecki, R.S. Raghavan, D. Rountree, R.B. Vogelaar, V.V. Kobychev, W. Maneschg, S. Schoenert, H. Simgen, G. Zuzel, F. Masetti, F. Ortica, A. Romani, G. Fiorentini, B. Ricci, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, Y. Suvorov, M. Wojcik, Bellini, G., Bonetti, S., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Caccianiga, B., D'Angelo, D., Franco, D., Giammarchi, M., Koshio, Y., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Meroni, E., Miramonti, L., Ranucci, G., Re, A., Benziger, J., Cadonati, L., Pocar, A., Calaprice, F., Chavarria, A., Dalnoki-Veress, F., Galbiati, C., Goretti, A., Ianni, Andrea, Leung, M., Loer, B., Mccarty, K., Saldanha, R., Wright, A., Carraro, C., Davini, S., Guardincerri, E., Manuzio, G., Pallavicini, M., Perasso, S., Risso, P., Salvo, C., Testera, G., Zavatarelli, S., de Kerret, H., Kryn, D., Obolensky, M., Vignaud, D., Derbin, A., Muratova, V., Eteriko, A., Litvinovich, E., Machulin, I., Sabelnikov, A., Skorokhvatov, M., Sukhotin, S., Fomenko, K., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Zaimidoroga, O., Gazzana, S., Chian, C., Ianni, Aldo, Korga, G., Laubenstein, M., Papp, L., Razeto, A., Tartaglia, R., Goeger-Neff, M., Lewke, T., Meindl, Q., Oberauer, L., von Feilitzsch, F., Winter, J., Wurm, M., Grieb, C., Hardy, S., Joyce, M., Manecki, S., Raghavan, R. S., Rountree, D., Vogelaar, R. B., Kobychev, V. V., Maneschg, W., Schoenert, S., Simgen, H., Zuzel, G., Masetti, F., Ortica, F., Romani, A., Fiorentini, G., Ricci, B., Misiaszek, M., Montanan, D., Suvorov, Y., and Wojcik, M.
Subjects: ICARUS, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, NO, Physics::Geophysics, Massless particle, Nuclear physics, Low energy, SOLAR NEUTRINOS, Underground laboratory, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, DETECTOR, Borexino, Lepton
Abstract: Borexino, at the I.N.F.N. Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy, is an experiment designed to detect, in real-time, low energy solar neutrinos. After a brief presentation of the Borexino physics and detector, we illustrate some recent results and their physics implications. Borexino perspectives are also discussed.
Published: 2011

31. Production and suppression of C-11 in the solar neutrino experiment Borexino

Author: Matthias Laubenstein, E. Litvinovich, Laura Cadonati, D. Rountree, C. Salvo, S. Hardy, L. Papp, W. Maneschg, R. S. Raghavan, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, R. B. Vogelaar, A. S. Chepurnov, A.V. Etenko, M. Goeger-Neff, A. M. Goretti, G. Manuzio, E. Meroni, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, S. Gazzana, A. Pocar, D. Vignaud, Fausto Ortica, S. Bonetti, Gioacchino Ranucci, D. Kryn, M. M. Wojcik, S. Schönert, D. Franco, Aldo Ianni, Lothar Oberauer, Q. Meindl, Aldo Romani, Quirin Meindl, Michael K.H. Leung, T. Lewke, A. E. Chavarria, Marco Pallavicini, L. Perasso, F. Dalnoki-Veress, Jingke Xu, S. Davini, Ben Loer, Jay Burton Benziger, A. Sotnikov, V. N. Muratova, O. Smirnov, B. Caccianiga, J. Winter, D. Montanari, A. Razeto, G. Testera, Alessandra Re, Andrea Ianni, G. Zuzel, Sandra Zavatarelli, P. Risso, A. A. Sabelnikov, Y. Suvorov, I. N. Machulin, D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, S. Perasso, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, S. Manecki, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, C. Carraro, F. von Feilitzsch, Malcolm J. Joyce, C. Ghiano, M. Misiaszek, R. Saldanha, Marco Giammarchi, Lino Miramonti, M. Buizza Avanzini, A. V. Derbin, E. Guardincerri, Paolo Lombardi, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, V. V. Kobychev, R. Tartaglia, Meindl, Quinn, Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Caccianiga, B., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F., Carraro, C., Chavarria, A., Chepurnov, A., Dalnoki-Veress, F., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., de Kerret, H., Derbin, A., Etenko, A., von Feilitzsch, F., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Guardincerri, E., Hardy, S., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Joyce, M., Kobychev, V., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Leung, M., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Loer, B., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Manuzio, G., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montanari, D., Muratova, V., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Perasso, S., Pocar, A., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Risso, P., Romani, A., Rountree, D., Sabelnikov, A., Saldanha, R., Salvo, C., Schoenert, S., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vignaud, D., Vogelaar, R. B., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wright, A., Wurm, M., Xu, J., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Solar energetic particles, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Cosmic ray, Nuclear physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutron, Neutrino, Borexino, Lepton
Abstract: 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.
Published: 2011

32. Measurement of the solarB8neutrino rate with a liquid scintillator target and 3 MeV energy threshold in the Borexino detector

Author: Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, G. Testera, S. Manecki, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Obolensky, Jay Burton Benziger, E. Meroni, S. Davini, S. Hardy, B. Ricci, T. Lewke, I. N. Machulin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Lothar Oberauer, P. Risso, S. V. Sukhotin, M. Goeger-Neff, Stefano Bonetti, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, Marco Pallavicini, Aldo Ianni, E. Litvinovich, D. D'Angelo, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, F. von Feilitzsch, F. Ortica, D. Kryn, Q. Meindl, G. Bellini, D. Rountree, A. Romani, C. Carraro, Paolo Lombardi, R. B. Vogelaar, H. de Kerret, R. Tartaglia, Jingke Xu, Cristiano Galbiati, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, S. Gazzana, R. Saldanha, Lino Miramonti, Marco Giammarchi, W. Maneschg, Michael K.H. Leung, Alessandra Re, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, D. Vinaud, Andrea Ianni, O. Smirnov, Sandra Zavatarelli, S. Schönert, Marcin Wójcik, A. Sotnikov, V. N. Muratova, A. Pocar, D. Montanari, G. Zuzel, Gioacchino Ranucci, Y. Suvorov, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, C. Salvo, A.V. Etenko, A. Razeto, E. Gurdincerri, B. Loer, A. A. Sabelnikov, Yusuke Koshio, A. V. Derbin, S. Perasso, J. Winter, Malcolm J. Joyce, C. Ghiano, and M. Misiaszek
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Isotopes of beryllium, Energy (signal processing), Borexino, Lepton
Abstract: We report the measurement of {nu}-e elastic scattering from {sup 8}B solar neutrinos with 3 MeV energy threshold by the Borexino detector in Gran Sasso (Italy). The rate of solar neutrino-induced electron scattering events above this energy in Borexino is 0.22{+-}0.04(stat){+-}0.01(syst) cpd/100 t, which corresponds to {Phi}{sub {sup 8}B}{sup ES}=2.4{+-}0.4{+-}0.1x10{sup 6} cm{sup -2} s{sup -1}, in good agreement with measurements from SNO and SuperKamiokaNDE. Assuming the {sup 8}B neutrino flux predicted by the high metallicity standard solar model, the average {sup 8}B {nu}{sub e} survival probability above 3 MeV is measured to be 0.29{+-}0.10. The survival probabilities for {sup 7}Be and {sup 8}B neutrinos as measured by Borexino differ by 1.9{sigma}. These results are consistent with the prediction of the MSW-LMA solution of a transition in the solar {nu}{sub e} survival probability P{sub ee} between the low-energy vacuum-driven and the high-energy matter-enhanced solar neutrino oscillation regimes.
Published: 2010

33. New experimental limits on the Pauli-forbidden transitions inC12nuclei obtained with485days Borexino data

Author: G. Bellini, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, D. D’Angelo, D. Franco, M. Giammarchi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, L. Perasso, G. Ranucci, A. Re, Y. Suvorov, J. Benziger, L. Cadonati, A. Pocar, F. Calaprice, A. Chavarria, F. Dalnoki-Veress, C. Galbiati, A. Goretti, Andrea Ianni, M. Leung, B. Loer, R. Saldanha, J. Xu, C. Carraro, S. Davini, E. Guardincerri, G. Manuzio, M. Pallavicini, S. Perasso, P. Risso, C. Salvo, G. Testera, S. Zavatarelli, H. de Kerret, D. Kryn, M. Obolensky, D. Vignaud, A. Derbin, V. Muratova, A. Etenko, E. Litvinovich, I. Machulin, A. Sabelnikov, M. Skorokhvatov, S. Sukhotin, K. Fomenko, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, Aldo Ianni, G. Korga, D. Montanari, A. Razeto, R. Tartaglia, M. Goeger-Neff, T. Lewke, Q. Meindl, L. Oberauer, F. von Feilitzsch, Y. Winter, M. Wurm, C. Grieb, S. Hardy, M. Joyce, S. Manecki, L. Papp, R. S. Raghavan, D. Rountree, R. B. Vogelaar, W. Maneschg, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek, M. Wojcik, F. Ortica, and A. Romani
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Antiparticle, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hadron, Carbon-12, Elementary particle, Fermion, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Baryon, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Lepton
Abstract: The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) has been tested for nucleons ($n,p$) in $^{12}C$ with the Borexino detector.The approach consists of a search for $\gamma$, $n$, $p$ and $\beta^\pm$ emitted in a non-Paulian transition of 1$P_{3/2}$- shell nucleons to the filled 1$S_{1/2}$ shell in nuclei. Due to the extremely low background and the large mass (278 t) of the Borexino detector, the following most stringent up-to-date experimental bounds on PEP violating transitions of nucleons have been established: $\tau({^{12}\rm{C}}\to{^{12}\widetilde{\rm{C}}}+\gamma) \geq 5.0\cdot10^{31}$ y, $\tau({^{12}\rm{C}}\to{^{11}\widetilde{\rm{B}}}+ p) \geq 8.9\cdot10^{29}$ y, $\tau({^{12}\rm{C}}\to{^{11}\widetilde{\rm{C}}}+ n) \geq 3.4 \cdot 10^{30}$ y, $\tau({^{12}\rm{C}}\to{^{12}\widetilde{\rm{N}}}+ e^- + \widetilde{\nu_e}) \geq 3.1\cdot 10^{30}$ y and $\tau({^{12}\rm{C}}\to{^{12}\widetilde{\rm{B}}}+ e^+ + \nu_e) \geq 2.1 \cdot 10^{30}$ y, all at 90% C.L. The corresponding upper limits on the relative strengths for the searched non-Paulian electromagnetic, strong and weak transitions have been estimated: $\delta^2_{\gamma} \leq 2.2\cdot10^{-57}$, $\delta^2_{N} \leq 4.1\cdot10^{-60}$ and $\delta^2_{\beta} \leq 2.1\cdot10^{-35}$.
Published: 2010

34. Observation of Geo-Neutrinos

Author: W. Maneschg, F. Dalnoki-Veress, G. Zuzel, P. Risso, R. Tartaglia, Matthias Laubenstein, A. A. Sabelnikov, A. Razeto, M. Skorokhvatov, G. Bellini, R. Saldanha, Michael Wurm, C. Salvo, Jilei Xu, Aldo Romani, L. Papp, A. Goretti, M. Goeger-Neff, Marco Giammarchi, S. Davini, Malcolm J. Joyce, S. Gazzana, S. Perasso, J. Winter, D. Franco, C. Ghiano, R. B. Vogelaar, Q. Meindl, Barbara Ricci, E. Litvinovich, M. Misiaszek, G. Manuzio, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Sotnikov, O. Zaimidoroga, Alessandra Re, B. Caccianiga, F. Calaprice, E. Guardincerri, T. Lewke, D. Kryn, Cristiano Galbiati, G. Testera, O. Smirnov, Livia Ludhova, A.V. Etenko, D. Vignaud, Giovanni Fiorentini, D. Montanari, D. Rountree, Stefano Bonetti, A. Pocar, B. Loer, Yusuke Koshio, R. S. Raghavan, Aldo Ianni, Marcin Wójcik, Y. Suvorov, L. Oberauer, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, S. Schönert, S. Hardy, Lino Miramonti, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, S. Manecki, Michael K.H. Leung, V. Muratova, K. Fomenko, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, A. Derbin, E. Meroni, J. Benziger, Laura Cadonati, G. Korga, Fausto Ortica, I. Machulin, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Buizza Avanzini, Hardy Simgen, C. Carraro, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, V. V. Kobychev, Paolo Lombardi, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Borexino, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Bellini, G., Suvorov, Y., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Anti-neutrinos from reactors, Geoneutrino, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Anti-neutrinos from reactors, Geo-neutrino, Neutrino detector, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NO, Physics::Geophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Neutrino detector, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Borexino, Physics, Anti-neutrinos from reactor, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Solar neutrino problem, humanities, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Cosmic neutrino background, Geo-neutrino, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract: Geo-neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos produced in beta decays of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the Earth, are a unique direct probe of our planet's interior. We report the first observation at more than 3$\sigma$ C.L. of geo-neutrinos, performed with the Borexino detector at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Anti-neutrinos are detected through the neutron inverse beta decay reaction. With a 252.6 ton-yr fiducial exposure after all selection cuts, we detected 9.9^{+4.1}_{-3.4}(^{+14.6}_{-8.2}) geo-neutrino events, with errors corresponding to a 68.3%(99.73%) C.L. From the $\ln{\cal{L}}$ profile, the statistical significance of the Borexino geo-neutrino observation corresponds to a 99.997% C.L. Our measurement of the geo-neutrinos rate is 3.9^{+1.6}_{-1.3}(^{+5.8}_{-3.2}) events/(100ton-yr). This measurement rejects the hypothesis of an active geo-reactor in the Earth's core with a power above 3 TW at 95% C.L. The observed prompt positron spectrum above 2.6 MeV is compatible with that expected from european nuclear reactors (mean base line of approximately 1000 km). Our measurement of reactor anti-neutrinos excludes the non-oscillation hypothesis at 99.60% C.L., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Published: 2010

35. Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos

Author: Michael Wurm, Tobias Lachenmaier, W. Potzel, M. Tippmann, Lothar Oberauer, Q. Meindl, Randoplh Moellenberg, T. Lewke, Juergen Winter, Franz von Feilitzsch, Christoph Traunsteiner, and M. Goeger-Neff
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Metallicity, Solar neutrino, Detector, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Spectroscopy, Nuclear Experiment, Borexino
Abstract: In the last years, liquid-scintillator detectors have opened a new window for the observation of low-energetic astrophysical neutrino sources. In 2007, the solar neutrino experiment Borexino began its data-taking in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. High energy resolution and excellent radioactive background conditions in the detector allow the first-time spectroscopic measurement of solar neutrinos in the sub-MeV energy regime. The experimental results of the Beryllium-7 neutrino flux measurements as well as the prospects for the detection of solar Boron-8, pep and CNO neutrinos are presented in the context of the currently discussed ambiguities in solar metallicity. In addition, the potential of the future SNO+ and LENA experiments for high-precision solar neutrino spectroscopy will be outlined., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, highlight talk at the annual fall meeting of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft in Potsdam (Sep 2009)
Published: 2010
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36. The liquid handling systems for the Borexino solar neutrino detector

Author: A. de Bellefon, R. von Hentig, S. Kidner, S. Parmeggiano, J. Maneira, A. Nelson, Danilo Giugni, W. Hampel, R. Eisenstein, G. Cecchet, A. Bevilacqua, Gunther Korschinek, T. A. Shutt, R. Fernholz, Mikael Hult, Elisa Resconi, An. Ianni, S. Gazzana, C. Arpesella, S. Hardy, R. Tartaglia, M. Parodi, Cristiano Galbiati, F. Soricelli, P. Risso, S. Vitale, A. E. Chavarria, K. McCarty, Nicomede Pelliccia, R. Cereseto, L. Perasso, E. Harding, C. Sule, Y. Suvorov, K. Jaenner, P. Saggese, Aldo Ianni, T. Lewke, A. Sotnikov, D. Kryn, Bryant Williams, C. Salvo, W. Maneschg, T. Goldbrunner, K. H. Schubeck, V. Vyrodov, Stefano Nisi, M. Goeger-Neff, M. Balata, G. Testera, Paolo Lombardi, F. Loeser, Margherita Buizza Avanzini, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, M. Obolensky, Jay Burton Benziger, H. de Kerret, Y. Kozlov, A. M. Goretti, A.V. Etenko, C. Grieb, G. Heusser, M. Marchelli, G. Di Pietro, Lino Miramonti, Stefano Bonetti, D. Franco, M. D. Skorokhvatov, D. Bartolomei, A. Razeto, D. Manuzio, I. N. Machulin, D. Bondi, E. de Haas, A. Golubchikov, Fausto Ortica, Michael Wurm, R. Wordel, E. Litvinovich, M. Chen, V. G. Tarasenkov, R. Saldanha, Fausto Masetti, F. Siccardi, F. Dalnoki-Veress, Gioacchino Ranucci, Lothar Oberauer, R. Parsells, S. V. Sukhotin, Matthias Laubenstein, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, O. Zaimidoroga, R. J. Ford, Frank Calaprice, T. Hagner, Marco Giammarchi, Martin Deutsch, S. Davini, F. Hartmann, Hardy Simgen, V. M. Gehman, V. V. Kobychev, Livia Ludhova, F. von Feilitzsch, Malcolm J. Joyce, Till Kirsten, A. S. Chepurnov, H.O. Back, C. Carraro, G. Bellini, Sandra Malvezzi, T. Hertrich, M. Orsini, E. Meroni, B. Loer, C. Hagner, D. Rountree, W. Czech, Gianluca Alimonti, Flavio Gatti, N. Gaertner, Ugo Mazzucato, L. Ioannucci, A. V. Derbin, Daniel McKinsey, A. Manco, A. Marternianov, Augusto Brigatti, R. B. Vogelaar, H. Neder, S. Schönert, W. Rau, Q. Meindl, L. Niedermeier, I. Manno, D. Vignaud, C. Lendvai, E. Guardincerri, G. Zuzel, Sandra Zavatarelli, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Michael K.H. Leung, B. Freudiger, A. Di Credico, M. Misiaszek, P.H. La Marche, R. Scardaoni, B. Caccianiga, D. Schimizzi, D. Montanari, A. de Bari, A. A. Sabelnikov, V. N. Muratova, Fausto Elisei, S. Perasso, V. Lagomarsino, Aldo Romani, Paolo Musico, Marcin Wójcik, A. Cubaiu, J. Kiko, M. E. Monzani, A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, Andrew Sonnenschein, A. Di Ludovico, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Alimonti, G., Suvorov, Y., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Low background detector, Liquid scintillator, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Nuclear engineering, Radiopurity, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Borexino, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Modular system, Detector, Volumetric flow rate, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Flow control (fluid), Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract: The successful deployment of the Borexino solar neutrino detector required assorted physical and chemical operations to produce exceptional pure fluids and fill multiple detector zones. The composition and flow rates of high purity gases and liquids had to be precisely controlled to maintain liquid levels and pressures. The system was required to meet exceptional requirements for cleanliness and leak-tightness. A large scale modular system connecting fluid receiving, purification and fluid delivery processes was developed for Borexino. At the core is a flow control system that delivers scintillator components to plants for purification, and then fills the Borexino detector volumes with ultrahigh purity buffer or ultrahigh purity scintillator. The liquid handling system maintains precise control over the liquid levels and differential pressures between the different volumes of the detectors that are separated by flexible nylon vessels. The preparation, commissioning and operation of the system for filling the Borexino detector with scintillator is described.
Published: 2009

37. The Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Author: V. Vyrodov, D. Bondi, Malcolm J. Joyce, Laura Cadonati, T. Goldbrunner, T. Hertich, E. de Haas, O. Smirnov, F. von Feiltitsch, M. Misiaszek, W. Czech, Matthias Laubenstein, A. de Bellefon, A. Martemiano, W. Maneschg, Stefano Nisi, M. Marchelli, M. Parodi, Stefano Bonetti, D. Manuzio, Marco Pallavicini, V. M. Gehman, A. Alimonti, Augusto Brigatti, D. Bartolomei, Fausto Ortica, D. D'Angelo, Michael Wurm, Andrew Sonnenschein, I. Machulin, A. Bevilacqua, E. Litvinovich, P. Musico, G. Di Pietro, G. Testera, K. McCarty, R. von Hentig, A. Cubauu, M. Orsini, Sandra Malvezzi, M. E. Monzani, J. Benziger, P. Saggese, J. Kiko, Q. Meindl, S. Parmeggiano, D. Rountree, J. Maneira, A. Di Credico, B. William, Daniel McKinsey, A. Manco, V. Muratova, B. Caccianiga, P.H. La Marche, R. Scardaoni, Aldo Romani, F. Calaprice, L. Papp, B. Freudiger, Ugo Mazzucato, F. Soricelli, D. Vignaud, G. Ceccet, L. Niedermeier, Michael K.H. Leung, A. Pocar, H. Neder, S. Hardy, M. Goeger-Neff, T. A. Shutt, R. Fernholz, G. Manuzio, K. H. Schubeck, Till Kirsten, I. Manno, Cristiano Galbiati, C. Sule, Mikael Hult, A. Nelson, D. Loeser, Danilo Giugni, R. Ceresto, Hardy Simgen, D. Schimizzi, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, R. Eisenstein, S. Gazzana, A. Chen, K. Fomenko, V. Lagomarsino, A. de Bari, D. Kryne, C. Carraro, K. Jaenner, S. Vital, R. Tartaglia, E. Harding, D. Montanari, M. Skorokhvatov, G. Bellini, A. A. Sabelnikov, C. Arpesella, R. B. Vogelaar, R. Wordel, S. Schönert, Lino Miramonti, A. Golubchikov, S. Kidner, T. Lewke, C. Lendvai, Martin Deutsch, G. Heusser, A. Derbin, Marcin Wójcik, C. Grieb, Elisa Resconi, E. Meroni, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, Gioacchino Ranucci, R. S. Raghavan, H.O. Back, Fausto Elisei, G. Korga, R. Saldhana, Y. Suvorov, L. Oberauer, A. Sotnikov, G. Korschnik, M. Gärtner, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, S. V. Sukhotin, V. V. Kobychev, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, G. Zuzel, Y. Kozlov, Fausto Masetti, Paolo Lombardi, A.V. Etenko, A. Goretti, Livia Ludhova, W. Hampel, A. S. Chepurnov, M. Balata, F. Siccardi, C. Salvo, B. Loer, C. Hagner, W. Rau, O. Zaimidoroga, P. Risso, F. Gattig, V. G. Tarasenkov, F. Hartmann, Nicomede Pelliccia, A. Razeto, A. Di Ldovico, R. J. Ford, Marco Giammarchi, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alimonti, G., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Low background detector, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Particle physics, Liquid scintillator, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Low background detectors, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Borexino, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, ICARUS, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Liquid scintillators, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Large Volume Detector
Abstract: Borexino, a large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy, is currently running underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The main goal of the experiment is the real-time measurement of sub MeV solar neutrinos, and particularly of the mono energetic (862 keV) Be7 electron capture neutrinos, via neutrino-electron scattering in an ultra-pure liquid scintillator. This paper is mostly devoted to the description of the detector structure, the photomultipliers, the electronics, and the trigger and calibration systems. The real performance of the detector, which always meets, and sometimes exceeds, design expectations, is also shown. Some important aspects of the Borexino project, i.e. the fluid handling plants, the purification techniques and the filling procedures, are not covered in this paper and are, or will be, published elsewhere (see Introduction and Bibliography)., Comment: 37 pages, 43 figures, to be submitted to NIM
Published: 2009

38. Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux down to 2.8 MeV with Borexino

Author: Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, O. Smirnov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Aldo Ianni, K. McCarty, Marco Pallavicini, Paolo Lombardi, Frank Calaprice, Q. Meindl, A. V. Derbin, A. Sotnikov, P. Risso, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, Malcolm J. Joyce, F. von Feilitzsch, R. Tartaglia, Hardy Simgen, C. Carraro, F. Dalnoki-Veress, C. Galbiati, D. Vignaud, V. N. Muratova, Livia Ludhova, C. Salvo, Y. Suvorov, S. Bonetti, W. Maneschg, M. Misiaszek, S. Gazzana, R. Saldanha, S. Perasso, S. Hardy, T. Lewke, Ben Loer, A. A. Sabelnikov, Marco Giammarchi, S. V. Sukhotin, G. Korga, C. Grieb, K. Fomenko, Lothar Oberauer, D. Rountree, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, O. Zaimidoroga, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. M. Goretti, R. B. Vogelaar, E. Litvinovich, A.V. Etenko, Matthias Laubenstein, S. Schönert, Fausto Ortica, A. Razeto, G. Bellini, V. V. Kobychev, A. Pocar, G. Zuzel, M. M. Wojcik, Aldo Romani, E. Meroni, D. Montanari, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Testera, I. N. Machulin, D. D'Angelo, D. Kryn, Fausto Masetti, Michael K.H. Leung, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, S. Manecki, B. Caccianiga, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, Lino Miramonti, M. Buizza Avanzini, M. Goeger-Neff, and D. Franco
Subjects: Physics, Elastic scattering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, Electron neutrino, Borexino, Lepton
Abstract: We report the measurement of the 8B solar neutrinos interaction rate with the Borexino detector. The extremly high radio-purity reached in the Borexino scintillator, combined with the efficient software rejection of cosmogenic background, allows to investigate the recoiled electron spectrum, induced by 8B solar neutrinos, down to the unprecedented energy threshold of 2.8 MeV. The rate of 8B solar neutrino interaction as measured through their scattering on the target electrons is 0.26 ± 0.04 stat ± 0.02 syst c/d/100 tons. This corresponds to an equivalent electron neutrino flux of ( 2.65 ± 0.44 stat ± 0.18 syst ) × 10 6 cm − 2 s − 1 , as derived from the elastic scattering only, in good agreement with existing measurements and predictions.
Published: 2009

39. Scintillator purification, detector performance and first results from Borexino

Author: Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, L. Papp, L. Niedermeier, Michael K.H. Leung, B. Caccianiga, D. Vignaud, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, R. Tartaglia, R. B. Vogelaar, A. Sotnikov, E. Meroni, S. Vitale, A.V. Etenko, Jay Burton Benziger, S. Hardy, S. Gazzana, Paolo Lombardi, S. Bonetti, Fausto Ortica, A. A. Sabelnikov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, C. Galbiati, Lothar Oberauer, I. N. Machulin, D. D'Angelo, M. Obolensky, Livia Ludhova, H. de Kerret, A. Razeto, G. Bellini, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, S. Schönert, A. Sonnenschein, B. Freudiger, R. J. Ford, Y. Suvorov, Lino Miramonti, L. Perasso, Marco Giammarchi, C. Grieb, M. Goeger-Neff, C. Arpesella, V. G. Tarasenkov, Martin Deutsch, C. Salvo, E. Litvinovich, Fausto Masetti, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, Marcin Wójcik, Frank Calaprice, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Marco Pallavicini, Hardy Simgen, G. Testera, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Kryn, Aldo Ianni, K. McCarty, A. M. Goretti, M. E. Monzani, A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, D. Montanari, Malcolm J. Joyce, M. Misiaszek, A. Martemianov, V. N. Muratova, G. Heusser, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. V. Derbin, G. Zuzel, Matthias Laubenstein, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Borexino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Pallavicini, M., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Dalnoki-Veress, F., D'Angelo, D., de Kerret, H., Derbin, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Ford, R., Franco, D., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Grieb, C., Hardy, S., Heusser, G., Ianni, Aldo, Lanni, Andrea, Joyce, M., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Leung, M., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Machulin, I., Manuzio, G., Masetti, F., Mccarty, K., Meroni, E., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montanari, D., Monzani, M. E., Muratova, V., Niedermeier, L., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Sabelnikov, A., Salvo, C., Schoenert, S., Simgen, H., Smirnov, O., Skorokhvatov, M., Sonnenschein, A., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tarasenkov, V., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vignaud, D., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wojcik, M., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics, History, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, Detector, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Borexino
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino experiment has begun data taking in May 2007 after a long R&D work and preparation. The liquid scintillator purity exceeds even optimistic expectations, and the first detection of 7Be solar neutrinos has been possible after less than two months of data taking. This note shows briefly which are the main issues that were addressed in order to obtain such an extreme radiopurity, the detector performance and a few details concerning this first result.
Published: 2008

40. First results on 7Be solar neutrinos from the Borexino real time detector

Author: G Bellini, J Benziger, S Bonetti, B Caccianiga, F Calaprice, F Dalnoki-Veress, D D'Angelo, H de Kerret, A Derbin, A Etenko, K Fomenko, R Ford, D Franco, C Galbiati, S Gazzana, M Giammarchi, M Goeger-Neff, A Goretti, C Grieb, S Hardy, G Heusser, A Ianni, M Joyce, G Korga, D Kryn, M Laubenstein, M Leung, E Litvinovich, P Lombardi, L Ludhova, I Machulin, G Manuzio, F Masetti, K McCarty, E Meroni, L Miramonti, M Misiaszek, D Montanari, M E Monzani, V Muratova, L Niedermeier, L Oberauer, M Obolensky, F Ortica, M Pallavicini, L Papp, L Perasso, A Pocar, R S Raghavan, G Ranucci, A Razeto, A Sabelnikov, C Salvo, S Schönert, H Simgen, O Smirnov, M Skorokhvatov, A Sonnenschein, A Sotnikov, S Sukhotin, Y Suvorov, V Tarasenkov, R Tartaglia, G Testera, D Vignaud, R B Vogelaar, F von Feilitzsch, M Wojcik, O Zaimidoroga, S Zavatarelli, G Zuzel, the Borexino Collaboration, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Borexino, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Detector, Solar neutrino problem, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Computer Science Applications, Education, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Order of magnitude, Borexino
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino experiment started the data taking may 15th 2007. It is until now the only experiment able to detect in real time neutrino interactions below 2 MeV. This is due to the very high radio-purity reached by the detector, more than one order of magnitude better than the goal of the design. The detector allows the single fluxes of low energy solar neutrinos to be determined from all sources not previously studied: 7Be, pep, CNO and hopefully pp. Here the first measurement of the 7Be, obtained from the first 47.6 live days of data taking, is presented.
Published: 2008

41. Direct Measurement of theBe7Solar Neutrino Flux with 192 Days of Borexino Data

Author: Danilo Giugni, S. Hardy, Martin Deutsch, A.V. Etenko, S. Manecki, T. Goldbrunner, G. Cecchet, T. Lewke, P. Risso, A. V. Derbin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, G. Zuzel, M. Balata, Andrew Sonnenschein, D. Rountree, G. Di Pietro, V. N. Muratova, Malcolm J. Joyce, Caren Hagner, C. Grieb, R. von Hentig, Ugo Mazzucato, R. B. Vogelaar, H. Neder, C. Salvo, A. Nelson, Fausto Elisei, Sandra Malvezzi, Stefano Bonetti, J. Maneira, I. Manno, G. Bellini, M. Goeger-Neff, M. Obolensky, C. Lendvai, Q. Meindl, G. Testera, H. de Kerret, Y. Suvorov, E. Litvinovich, An. Ianni, E. Harding, R. Eisenstein, T. A. Shutt, Matthias Laubenstein, A. E. Chavarria, R. Freudiger, A. Di Credico, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, M. Misiaszek, A. Sotnikov, G. Heusser, J. Benzinger, A. Brigatti, S. Calaprice, A. de Bellefon, R. S. Raghavan, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, G. Manuzio, Sandra Zavatarelli, D. Vignaud, R. Tartaglia, Till Kirsten, D. Manuzio, F.X. Hartman, M. E. Monzani, S. Gazzana, C. Carraro, M. Chen, Henning O. Back, B. Loer, Livia Ludhova, Lino Miramonti, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, L. Candonati, A. M. Goretti, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Orsini, D. Schimizzi, E. Meroni, A. Pocar, Marco Pallavicini, S. Parrameggiano, D. D'Angelo, L. Papp, A. de Bari, W. Maneschg, V. V. Kobychev, Flavio Gatti, L. Paresso, O. Smirnov, P. LaMarche, T. Hertrich, Fausto Ortica, A. A. Sabelnikov, D. Kryn, C. Arpesella, Daniel McKinsey, Hardy Simgen, D. Montanari, L. Niedermeier, S. Schönert, Michael K.H. Leung, Lothar Oberauer, Fausto Masetti, Paolo Lombardi, B. Cacciangia, Marcin Wójcik, K. McCarty, Gunther Korschinek, R. Fernholz, R. Saldanha, R. J. Ford, Marco Giammarchi, Paolo Musico, V. Lagomarsino, Aldo Romani, Cristiano Galbiati, S. Vitale, I. Muchulin, Elisa Resconi, A. Razetto, J. Kiko, T. von Hentig, W. Hampel, and W. Rau
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Solar energetic particles, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, 01 natural sciences, Massless particle, Nuclear physics, Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, Lepton
Abstract: We report the direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The interaction rate of the 0.862 MeV 7Be neutrinos is 49+/-3stat+/-4syst counts/(day.100 ton). The hypothesis of no oscillation for 7Be solar neutrinos is inconsistent with our measurement at the 4sigma C.L. Our result is the first direct measurement of the survival probability for solar nu(e) in the transition region between matter-enhanced and vacuum-driven oscillations. The measurement improves the experimental determination of the flux of 7Be, pp, and CNO solar nu(e), and the limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment using solar neutrinos.
Published: 2008

42. New results on solar neutrino fluxes from 192 days of Borexino data

Author: M. Chen, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, D. Vignaud, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, A. Nelson, C. Carraro, A. Martemianov, A. V. Derbin, M. Balata, V. V. Kobychev, R. Eisenstein, D. Manuzio, Augusto Brigatti, A. Razeto, T. Goldbrunner, Andrew Sonnenschein, E. Litvinovich, Sandra Malvezzi, T. Hertrich, C. Arpesella, P. Risso, Q. Meindl, Frank Calaprice, B. Freudiger, Hardy Simgen, S. Vitale, Matthias Laubenstein, Till Kirsten, A. Di Credico, F. Dalnoki-Veress, J. Maneira, Marco Pallavicini, Lino Miramonti, Gunther Korschinek, T. A. Shutt, R. Fernholz, M. E. Monzani, J. Kiko, Paolo Lombardi, Danilo Giugni, G. Heusser, R. Tartaglia, R. S. Raghavan, Aldo Ianni, A. Pocar, Fausto Masetti, G. Manuzio, M. Obolensky, M. Goeger-Neff, H. de Kerret, Y. Suvorov, Andrea Ianni, R. von Hentig, D. Kryn, Sandra Zavatarelli, Cristiano Galbiati, D. Schimizzi, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. Parmeggiano, A. de Bari, T. Lewke, Livia Ludhova, W. Maneschg, A. M. Goretti, D. Franco, H.O. Back, M. Orsini, E. Meroni, M. M. Wojcik, R. Saldanha, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Manecki, G. Bellini, C. Grieb, K. McCarty, A. A. Sabelnikov, A. Sotnikov, F.X. Hartman, P. LaMarche, R. J. Ford, S. Gazzana, G. Di Pietro, Flavio Gatti, Jay Burton Benziger, Marco Giammarchi, G. Testera, D. Montanari, S. Bonetti, C. Lendvai, A. de Bellefon, I. Manno, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Laura Cadonati, O. Smirnov, L. Papp, Lothar Oberauer, G. Zuzel, V. N. Muratova, Fausto Ortica, Elisa Resconi, Fausto Elisei, S. Hardy, G. Cecchet, S. Schönert, W Rau, E. Harding, Martin Deutsch, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, D. Rountree, Ugo Mazzucato, I. N. Machulin, R. B. Vogelaar, H. Neder, A.V. Etenko, D. D'Angelo, C. Salvo, Daniel McKinsey, L. Niedermeier, Michael K.H. Leung, B. Caccianiga, V. Lagomarsino, Aldo Romani, Malcolm J. Joyce, Caren Hagner, M. Misiaszek, B. Loer, W. Hampel, Paolo Musico, T. von Hentig, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galbiati, C., Arpesella, C., Back, H. O., Balata, M., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Brigatti, A., Caccianiga, B., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F., Carraro, C., Cecchet, G., Chavarria, A., Chen, M., Dalnoki-Veress, F., D'Angelo, D., de Bari, A., de Bellefon, A., de Kerret, H., Derbin, A., Deutsch, M., di Credico, A., di Pietro, G., Eisenstein, R., Elisei, F., Etenko, A., Fernholz, R., Fomenko, K., Ford, R., Franco, D., Freudiger, B., Gatti, F., Gazzana, S., Giammarchi, M., Giugni, D., Goeger-Neff, M., Goldbrunner, T., Goretti, A., Grieb, C., Hagner, C., Hampel, W., Harding, E., Hardy, S., Hartman, F. X., Hertrich, T., Heusser, G., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Joyce, M., Kiko, J., Lonegren, Kirsten, Kobychev, V., Korga, G., Korschinek, G., Kryn, D., Lagomarsino, V., Lamarche, P., Laubenstein, M., Lendvai, C., Leung, M., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Loer, B., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Machulin, I., Malvezzi, S., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Maneschg, W., Manno, I., Manuzio, D., Manuzio, G., Martemianova, A., Masetti, F., Mazzucato, U., Mccarty, K., Mckinsey, D., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montanari, D., Monzani, M. E., Muratova, V., Musico, P., Neder, H., Nelson, A., Niedermeier, L., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Orsini, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Parmeggiano, S., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Rau, W., Razeto, A., Resconi, E., Risso, P., Romani, A., Rountree, D., Sabelnikov, A., Saldanha, R., Salvo, C., Schimizzi, D., Schoenert, S., Shutt, T., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sonnenschein, A., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vignaud, D., Vitale, S., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., von Hentig, R., von Hentig, T., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuzel, G., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: History, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, 01 natural sciences, Education, Nuclear physics, SCINTILLATOR, 0103 physical sciences, OSCILLATIONS, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, DETECTOR, Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Solar neutrino problem, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, MATTER
Abstract: International audience; We report the direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The interaction rate of the 0.862 MeV 7Be neutrinos is 49±3stat±4syst counts/(day*100 ton). The hypothesis of no oscillation for 7Be solar neutrinos is inconsistent with our measurement at the 4σ C.L. Our result is the first direct measurement of the survival probability for solar νe in the transition region between matter-enhanced and vacuum-driven oscillations. The measurement improves the experimental determination of the flux of 7Be, pp, and CNO solar νe, and the limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment using solar neutrinos
Published: 2008

43. Search for solar axions emitted in the M1-transition of 7Li* with Borexino CTF

Author: S. Gazzana, Malcolm J. Joyce, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Misiaszek, R. Tartaglia, E. Meroni, S. V. Sukhotin, R. S. Raghavan, G. Manuzio, M. D. Skorokhvatov, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Bonetti, V. V. Kobychev, Lothar Oberauer, Aldo Ianni, A. Sotnikov, V. N. Muratova, Livia Ludhova, D. Kryn, An. Ianni, A. A. Sabelnikov, Paolo Lombardi, A. M. Goretti, A. V. Derbin, C. Grieb, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, L. Perasso, E. Litvinovich, G. Zuzel, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. Schönert, C. Salvo, Sandra Zavatarelli, R. B. Vogelaar, L. Niedermeier, A. Razeto, A.V. Etenko, Michael K.H. Leung, Marco Giammarchi, B. Caccianiga, G. Testera, Marcin Wójcik, I. N. Machulin, O. Smirnov, M. E. Monzani, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, F. von Feilitzsch, F. Masetti, S. Hardy, L. Papp, Y. Suvorov, Lino Miramonti, Cristiano Galbiati, Fausto Ortica, V. G. Tarasenkov, D. Montanari, D. Vignaud, M. Goeger-Neff, Frank Calaprice, D. Franco, F. Dalnoki-Veress, Hardy Simgen, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Bellini, K. McCarty, Dipartimento di Fisica Università and INFN Milano, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Department of Physics, Princeton University, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso/INFN (LNGS), Technische Universität München (TUM), Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova e Sezione INFN, Università degli Studi di Perugia = University of Perugia (UNIPG), M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Bellini, G., Suvorov, Y., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Axion Dark Matter Experiment, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Axion, Engineering (miscellaneous), Borexino
Abstract: Results of background measurements with a prototype of the Borexino detector were used to search for 478 keV solar axions emitted in the M1-transitions of 7Li*. The Compton conversion of axion to a photon A+e→e+γ, axioelectric effect A+e+Z→e+Z, decay of axion in two photons A→2γ and Primakoff conversion on nuclei A+Z→γ+Z are considered. The upper limit on constants of interaction of axion with electrons, photons and nucleons – gAegAN≤(1.0–2.4)×10-10 at mA≤450 keV and gAγgAN≤5×10-9 GeV-1 at mA≤10 keV are obtained (90%c.l.). For heavy axions with the mass at 100
Published: 2008

44. Direct Measurement of the 7Be Solar Neutrino Flux with 192 Days of Borexino Data

Author: C, Arpesella, H O, Back, M, Balata, G, Bellini, J, Benziger, S, Bonetti, A, Brigatti, B, Caccianiga, L, Cadonati, F, Calaprice, C, Carraro, G, Cecchet, A, Chavarria, M, Chen, F, Dalnoki-Veress, D, D'Angelo, A, de Bari, A, de Bellefon, H, de Kerret, A, Derbin, M, Deutsch, A, di Credico, G, di Pietro, R, Eisenstein, F, Elisei, A, Etenko, R, Fernholz, K, Fomenko, R, Ford, D, Franco, B, Freudiger, C, Galbiati, F, Gatti, S, Gazzana, M, Giammarchi, D, Giugni, M, Goeger-Neff, T, Goldbrunner, A, Goretti, C, Grieb, C, Hagner, W, Hampel, E, Harding, S, Hardy, F X, Hartman, T, Hertrich, G, Heusser, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Ianni, M, Joyce, J, Kiko, T, Kirsten, V, Kobychev, G, Korga, G, Korschinek, D, Kryn, V, Lagomarsino, P, Lamarche, M, Laubenstein, C, Lendvai, M, Leung, T, Lewke, E, Litvinovich, B, Loer, P, Lombardi, L, Ludhova, I, Machulin, S, Malvezzi, S, Manecki, J, Maneira, W, Maneschg, I, Manno, D, Manuzio, G, Manuzio, A, Martemianov, F, Masetti, U, Mazzucato, K, McCarty, D, McKinsey, Q, Meindl, E, Meroni, L, Miramonti, M, Misiaszek, D, Montanari, M E, Monzani, V, Muratova, P, Musico, H, Neder, A, Nelson, L, Niedermeier, L, Oberauer, M, Obolensky, M, Orsini, F, Ortica, M, Pallavicini, L, Papp, S, Parmeggiano, L, Perasso, A, Pocar, R S, Raghavan, G, Ranucci, W, Rau, A, Razeto, E, Resconi, P, Risso, A, Romani, D, Rountree, A, Sabelnikov, R, Saldanha, C, Salvo, D, Schimizzi, S, Schönert, T, Shutt, H, Simgen, M, Skorokhvatov, O, Smirnov, A, Sonnenschein, A, Sotnikov, S, Sukhotin, Y, Suvorov, R, Tartaglia, G, Testera, D, Vignaud, S, Vitale, R B, Vogelaar, F, von Feilitzsch, R, von Hentig, T, von Hentig, M, Wojcik, M, Wurm, O, Zaimidoroga, S, Zavatarelli, G, Zuzel, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The interaction rate of the 0.862 MeV 7Be neutrinos is 49+/-3stat+/-4syst counts/(day.100 ton). The hypothesis of no oscillation for 7Be solar neutrinos is inconsistent with our measurement at the 4sigma C.L. Our result is the first direct measurement of the survival probability for solar nu(e) in the transition region between matter-enhanced and vacuum-driven oscillations. The measurement improves the experimental determination of the flux of 7Be, pp, and CNO solar nu(e), and the limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment using solar neutrinos.
Published: 2008

45. Low energy neutrino astronomy with the large liquid scintillation detector LENA

Author: W. Potzel, Lothar Oberauer, M. Goeger-Neff, Michael Wurm, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. A. Hochmuth, and F. von Feilitzsch
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Liquid scintillation counting, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, Solar physics, Nuclear physics, Supernova, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Low energy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino
Abstract: The detection of low energy neutrinos in a large scintillation detector may provide further important information on astrophysical processes as supernova physics, solar physics and elementary particle physics as well as geophysics. In this contribution, a new project for Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (LENA) consisting of a 50kt scintillation detector is presented., Comment: Proccedings of the International School of Nuclear Physics, Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Erice (SICILY) 16 - 24 Sept. 2005
Published: 2006
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46. Current Status of the BOREXINO experiment

Author: D. Manuzio, S. Parmeggiano, An. Ianni, Fausto Elisei, C. Galbiati, L. Perasso, Till Kirsten, Danilo Giugni, S. Gazzana, Marco Pallavicini, Gunther Korschinek, T. A. Shutt, R. Fernholz, A.V. Etenko, F. Loeser, G. Heusser, Gioacchino Ranucci, J. Maneira, R. Tartaglia, Paolo Lombardi, C. Grieb, Aldo Ianni, R. Scardaoni, C. Lendvai, H. de Haas, A. M. Goretti, M. Chen, S. V. Sukhotin, G. Korga, O. Zaimidoroga, D. D'Angelo, Christian Buck, C. Salvo, F. von Feilitzsch, Tristan Beau, K. McCarty, G. Cecchet, Ugo Mazzucato, D. Kryn, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Obolensky, Flavio Gatti, S. Bonetti, H. de Kerret, Y. Kozlov, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, Lino Miramonti, H. Hess, Fausto Ortica, A. V. Derbin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, R. S. Raghavan, V. G. Tarasenkov, Augusto Brigatti, G. Manuzio, Lothar Oberauer, Martin Deutsch, I. Manno, Sandra Malvezzi, T. Hertrich, F. Hartmann, G. Testera, R. J. Ford, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Balata, A. Sonnenschein, B. Freudiger, Marco Giammarchi, G. Zuzel, Fausto Masetti, L. Niedermeier, Michael K.H. Leung, H. O. Back, Paolo Musico, E. Seitz, K. H. Schuhbeck, B. Caccianiga, D. Schimizzi, E. Meroni, A. de Bari, A. A. Sabelnikov, G. Bellini, A. Di Credico, N. Gartner, Frank Calaprice, Hardy Simgen, W. Rau, A. Sotnikov, M. M. Wojcik, D. Vignaud, A. Razeto, W. Hampel, M. Goeger-Neff, S. Schönert, D. Franco, Cristiano Galbiati, A. de Bellefon, Jay Burton Benziger, Elisa Resconi, Caren Hagner, O. Dadoun, E. Harding, O. Smirnov, J. Kiko, V. Vyrodov, A. Martemianov, M. E. Monzani, A. Pocar, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Borexino, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Current (fluid), 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Borexino
Abstract: The status of the BOREXINO experiment is presented. The physics potential of the experiment is reviewed.
Published: 2004

47. Recent results from Borexino

Author: L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, Kai Zuber, K. Altenmüller, S. Davini, K. Choi, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Lino Miramonti, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Carlini, K. Jedrzejczak, R. Tartaglia, B. Neumair, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Caren Hagner, S. Appel, R. Roncin, F. Lombardi, G. Bonfini, E. Meroni, Frank Calaprice, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Razeto, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Marcocci, W. Maneschg, M. Toropova, A. Vishneva, B. Caccianiga, G. Zuzel, B. Lehnert, M. Obolensky, Z. Yokley, A. V. Derbin, E. V. Hungerford, F. Gabriele, M. Goeger-Neff, V. Atroshchenko, I. N. Machulin, V. N. Muratova, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, I. S. Drachnev, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, J. Winter, A. Sotnikov, S. Weinz, G. Testera, Lothar Oberauer, D. Franco, Paolo Lombardi, Y. Suvorov, D. A. Semenov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, M. Gromov, A. Jany, Denis Korablev, S. V. Sukhotin, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, E. V. Unzhakov, Marcin Wójcik, A. Caminata, D. Kryn, Aldo Ianni, G. Manuzio, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Manecki, Alessandra Re, S. Schönert, G. Lukyanchenko, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Matteo Agostini, Marco Giammarchi, Jay Burton Benziger, C. Ghiano, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, Michael Meyer, D. Jeschke, G. Bellini, Cristiano Galbiati, J. Thurn, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Borexino, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Jeschke, D., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jany, A., Jedrzejczak, K., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoeert, S., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: History, Particle physics, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Context (language use), 01 natural sciences, neutrino: flux, Education, Physics::Geophysics, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Low energy, energy: solar, 0103 physical sciences, Energy spectrum, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Borexino, scintillation counter, Physics, Charge conservation, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, stability, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, energy: production, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: geophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Journal of Physics Conference Series. - 798, International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics : 10-14 October 2016, Moscow, Russian Federation / proceedings editors: 1. issue: cosmic rays: Arkady Galper (MEPhI, Moscow, Russia) [und 7 andere] 2nd International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ICPPA 2016, Moscow, Russia, 11 Oct 2016 - 14 Oct 2016; Bristol : IOP Publ., Journal of Physics Conference Series, 798, 012114 pp. (2017). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/798/1/012114, Published by IOP Publ., Bristol

48. Susceptibility artifact correction in MR thermometry for monitoring of mild radiofrequency hyperthermia using total field inversion.

Author: Boehm C, Goeger-Neff M, Mulder HT, Zilles B, Lindner LH, van Rhoon GC, Karampinos DC, and Wu M
Subjects: Artifacts, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Phantoms, Imaging, Hyperthermia, Induced, Sarcoma, Thermometry methods
Abstract: Purpose: MR temperature monitoring of mild radiofrequency hyperthermia (RF-HT) of cancer exploits the linear resonance frequency shift of water with temperature. Motion-induced susceptibility distribution changes cause artifacts that we correct here using the total field inversion (TFI) approach., Methods: The performance of TFI was compared to two background field removal (BFR) methods: Laplacian boundary value (LBV) and projection onto dipole fields (PDF). Data sets with spatial susceptibility change and B 0 -drift were simulated, phantom heating experiments were performed, four volunteer data sets at thermoneutral conditions as well as data from one cervical cancer, two sarcoma, and one seroma patients undergoing mild RF-HT were corrected using the proposed methods., Results: Simulations and phantom heating experiments revealed that using BFR or TFI preserves temperature-induced phase change, while removing susceptibility artifacts and B 0 -drift. TFI resulted in the least cumulative error for all four volunteers. Temperature probe information from four patient data sets were best depicted by TFI-corrected data in terms of accuracy and precision. TFI also performed best in case of the sarcoma treatment without temperature probe., Conclusion: TFI outperforms previously suggested BFR methods in terms of accuracy and robustness. While PDF consistently overestimates susceptibility contribution, and LBV removes valuable pixel information, TFI is more robust and leads to more accurate temperature estimations., (© 2022 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.)
Published: 2022
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49. Test of Electric Charge Conservation with Borexino.

Author: Agostini M, Appel S, Bellini G, Benziger J, Bick D, Bonfini G, Bravo D, Caccianiga B, Calaprice F, Caminata A, Cavalcante P, Chepurnov A, D'Angelo D, Davini S, Derbin A, Di Noto L, Drachnev I, Empl A, Etenko A, Fomenko K, Franco D, Gabriele F, Galbiati C, Ghiano C, Giammarchi M, Goeger-Neff M, Goretti A, Gromov M, Hagner C, Hungerford E, Ianni A, Ianni A, Jedrzejczak K, Kaiser M, Kobychev V, Korablev D, Korga G, Kryn D, Laubenstein M, Lehnert B, Litvinovich E, Lombardi F, Lombardi P, Ludhova L, Lukyanchenko G, Machulin I, Manecki S, Maneschg W, Marcocci S, Meroni E, Meyer M, Miramonti L, Misiaszek M, Montuschi M, Mosteiro P, Muratova V, Neumair B, Oberauer L, Obolensky M, Ortica F, Otis K, Pallavicini M, Papp L, Perasso L, Pocar A, Ranucci G, Razeto A, Re A, Romani A, Roncin R, Rossi N, Schönert S, Semenov D, Simgen H, Skorokhvatov M, Smirnov O, Sotnikov A, Sukhotin S, Suvorov Y, Tartaglia R, Testera G, Thurn J, Toropova M, Unzhakov E, Vishneva A, Vogelaar RB, von Feilitzsch F, Wang H, Weinz S, Winter J, Wojcik M, Wurm M, Yokley Z, Zaimidoroga O, Zavatarelli S, Zuber K, and Zuzel G
Abstract: Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio purity of the scintillator, and to the well understood detector response at low energy, a new limit on the stability of the electron for decay into a neutrino and a single monoenergetic photon was obtained. This new bound, τ≥6.6×10^{28} yr at 90% C.L., is 2 orders of magnitude better than the previous limit.
Published: 2015
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50. First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino.

Author: Bellini G, Benziger J, Bick D, Bonetti S, Bonfini G, Bravo D, Buizza Avanzini M, Caccianiga B, Cadonati L, Calaprice F, Carraro C, Cavalcante P, Chavarria A, Chepurnov A, D'Angelo D, Davini S, Derbin A, Etenko A, Fomenko K, Franco D, Galbiati C, Gazzana S, Ghiano C, Giammarchi M, Goeger-Neff M, Goretti A, Grandi L, Guardincerri E, Hardy S, Ianni A, Ianni A, Korablev D, Korga G, Koshio Y, Kryn D, Laubenstein M, Lewke T, Litvinovich E, Loer B, Lombardi F, Lombardi P, Ludhova L, Machulin I, Manecki S, Maneschg W, Manuzio G, Meindl Q, Meroni E, Miramonti L, Misiaszek M, Montanari D, Mosteiro P, Muratova V, Oberauer L, Obolensky M, Ortica F, Otis K, Pallavicini M, Papp L, Perasso L, Perasso S, Pocar A, Quirk J, Raghavan RS, Ranucci G, Razeto A, Re A, Romani A, Sabelnikov A, Saldanha R, Salvo C, Schönert S, Simgen H, Skorokhvatov M, Smirnov O, Sotnikov A, Sukhotin S, Suvorov Y, Tartaglia R, Testera G, Vignaud D, Vogelaar RB, von Feilitzsch F, Winter J, Wojcik M, Wright A, Wurm M, Xu J, Zaimidoroga O, Zavatarelli S, and Zuzel G
Abstract: We observed, for the first time, solar neutrinos in the 1.0-1.5 MeV energy range. We determined the rate of pep solar neutrino interactions in Borexino to be 3.1±0.6{stat}±0.3{syst} counts/(day·100 ton). Assuming the pep neutrino flux predicted by the standard solar model, we obtained a constraint on the CNO solar neutrino interaction rate of <7.9 counts/(day·100 ton) (95% C.L.). The absence of the solar neutrino signal is disfavored at 99.97% C.L., while the absence of the pep signal is disfavored at 98% C.L. The necessary sensitivity was achieved by adopting data analysis techniques for the rejection of cosmogenic {11}C, the dominant background in the 1-2 MeV region. Assuming the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein large mixing angle solution to solar neutrino oscillations, these values correspond to solar neutrino fluxes of (1.6±0.3)×10{8} cm{-2} s^{-1} and <7.7×10{8} cm{-2} s{-1} (95% C.L.), respectively, in agreement with both the high and low metallicity standard solar models. These results represent the first direct evidence of the pep neutrino signal and the strongest constraint of the CNO solar neutrino flux to date.
Published: 2012
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