Author: "R. B. Vogelaar" / Topic: borexino - Searchworks@Jio Institute Digital Library Search Results

Your search keyword '"R. B. Vogelaar"' showing total 85 results

Start Over Author "R. B. Vogelaar" Topic borexino

85 results on '"R. B. Vogelaar"'

1. Improved measurement of B8 solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt·y of Borexino exposure

Author: R. Tartaglia, G. Bellini, A. Di Ludovico, Aldo Ianni, N. Pilipenko, G. Manuzio, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Redchuk, I. N. Machulin, D. Kryn, J. Martyn, A. V. Derbin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, E. Litvinovich, D. D'Angelo, N. Rossi, E. Meroni, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Appel, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, B. Opitz, O. Smirnov, D. A. Semenov, G. Zuzel, Z. Yokley, G. Bonfini, Xuefeng Ding, D. Bravo, Andrea Ianni, Kai Zuber, D. Bick, V. Atroshchenko, Frank Calaprice, L. Lukyanchenko, Sandra Zavatarelli, T. Houdy, A. Porcelli, B. Caccianiga, Gioacchino Ranucci, E. V. Unzhakov, Z. Bagdasarian, Lothar Oberauer, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, M. M. Wojcik, Matteo Agostini, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Aldo Romani, Andrey Formozov, A. Jany, S. Weinz, Y. Suvorov, L. Di Noto, V. V. Kobychev, Alessandra Re, D. Franco, E. V. Hungerford, P. Cavalcante, D. Jeschke, M. Misiaszek, K. Altenmueller, A. Sotnikov, L.F.F. Stokes, D. Basilico, S. Schoenert, S. Davini, V. N. Muratova, F. von Feilitzsch, M. S. Meyer, Lino Miramonti, S. Caprioli, Paolo Lombardi, A. Pocar, Jay Burton Benziger, A. M. Goretti, V. Orekhov, L. Papp, F. Lombardi, G. Lukyanchenko, Fausto Ortica, A. Razeto, D. Guffanti, M. Carlini, B. Neumair, G. Korga, Marco Giammarchi, K. Fomenko, I. S. Drachnev, K. Choi, M. Gromov, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, L. Collica, Ö. Penek, G. Testera, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Vishneva, and Denis Korablev
Subjects: Physics, Elastic scattering, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, Solar neutrino problem, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Neutrino detector, 0103 physical sciences, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino
Abstract: We report on an improved measurement of the $^8$B solar neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Neutrinos are detected via their elastic scattering on electrons in a large volume of liquid scintillator. The measured rate of scattered electrons above 3 MeV of energy is $0.223\substack{+0.015 \\ -0.016}\,(stat)\,\substack{+0.006 \\ -0.006}\,(syst)$ cpd/100 t, which corresponds to an observed solar neutrino flux assuming no neutrino flavor conversion of $\Phi\substack{\rm ES \\ ^8\rm B}=2.57\substack{+0.17 \\ -0.18}(stat)\substack{+0.07\\ -0.07}(syst)\times$10$^6$ cm$^{-2}\,$s$^{-1}$. This measurement exploits the active volume of the detector in almost its entirety for the first time, and takes advantage of a reduced radioactive background following the 2011 scintillator purification campaign and of novel analysis tools providing a more precise modeling of the background. Additionally, we set a new limit on the interaction rate of solar $hep$ neutrinos, searched via their elastic scattering on electrons as well as their neutral current-mediated inelastic scattering on carbon, $^{12}$C($\nu,\nu'$)$^{12}$C* ($E_{\gamma}$= 15.1 MeV).
Published: 2020
Full Text: View/download PDF

2. The study of solar neutrinos and of non-standard neutrino interactions with Borexino

Author: S. Rottenanger, Luigi Cappelli, S. Schönert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. Gschwender, Matthias Laubenstein, V. Di Marcello, O. Zaimidoroga, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, L. Lukyanchenko, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, K. Choi, M. Gromov, A. Jany, N. Pilipenko, B. Neumair, A. Vishneva, V. V. Kobychev, Xuefeng Ding, G. Korga, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Kai Zuber, Ö. Penek, A. M. Goretti, L. Papp, E. Meroni, E. V. Hungerford, D. Basilico, Michael Wurm, G. Bellini, S. Zavatarelli, J. Thurn, M. T. Ranalli, S. Marcocci, S. Kumaran, Fausto Ortica, A. Sotnikov, Tobias Lachenmaier, A. V. Derbin, L. Pietrofaccia, A. Razeto, D. Guffanti, V. Atroshchenko, Marco Giammarchi, D. Franco, G. Bonfini, G. Testera, D. Jeschke, Frank Calaprice, I. Lomskaya, Andrey Formozov, K. Altenmüller, I. S. Drachnev, D. Bravo, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Redchuk, Lothar Oberauer, S. Davini, R. Tartaglia, M. S. Meyer, V. N. Muratova, V. Orekhov, M. M. Wojcik, Matteo Agostini, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, M. Nieslony, A. Pocar, Jay Burton Benziger, Lino Miramonti, D. A. Semenov, F. Cavanna, Paolo Lombardi, O. Smirnov, A. Caminata, G. Zuzel, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, Y. Suvorov, E. V. Unzhakov, A. Di Ludovico, G. Lukyanchenko, Gioacchino Ranucci, G. Manuzio, J. Maricic, Alessandra Re, S. Appel, R. B. Vogelaar, Aldo Ianni, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, A. S. Chepurnov, B. Caccianiga, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, I. N. Machulin, A. Di Giacinto, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, and D. D'Angelo
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Oscillation, business.industry, Solar neutrino, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Scintillator, Solar energy, Computer Science Applications, Education, Observatory, High Energy Physics::Experiment, ddc:530, Neutrino, business, Borexino
Abstract: The Borexino liquid scintillator neutrino observatory has a unique capability to perform high-precision solar neutrino observations thanks to its exceptional radiopurity and good energy resolution (5% at 1 MeV). A comprehensive study of the pp-chain neutrinos was presented that includes the direct measurements of 7Be, pp and pep neutrino fluxes with the highest precision ever achieved (down to 2.8% in the 7Be component), the 8B with the lowest energy threshold, the best limit on CNO neutrinos and the first Borexino limit on hep neutrinos. These results are important to validate the MSW-LMA oscillation paradigm across the full solar energy range and to exclude possible Non-Standard neutrino Interactions (NSIs). In particular the effects of neutrino-flavor-diagonal Neutral-Current (NC) interactions that modify the vee and vτe couplings while preserving their chiral and flavor structures, have been investigated. At detection, the shape of the electron-recoil spectrum is affected by changes in the vee and vτe couplings, quantified by the parameters ε e L / R and ε τ L / R . New bounds to all four parameters were obtained, quite stringent compared to the global ones. In particular, the best constraint to-date on ε e L was achieved. A comprehensive summary of all the recent results on solar neutrinos from Borexino is reported in the present paper.
Published: 2020
Full Text: View/download PDF

3. Analysis strategies for the updated geoneutrino measurement with Borexino

Author: S. Davini, Y. Suvorov, Matteo Agostini, S. Schöinert, Aldo Ianni, V. Di Marcello, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, D. Bravo, Giovanni Fiorentini, C. Galbiati, S. Rottenanger, O. Smirnov, Livia Ludhova, V. V. Kobychev, I. S. Drachnev, N. Pilipenko, A. S. Chepurnov, V. N. Muratova, E. V. Unzhakov, M. Vivier, Lino Miramonti, Luigi Cappelli, D. Franco, D. Basilico, A. Jany, A. M. Goretti, Virginia Strati, Ö. Penek, F. Cavanna, A. Razeto, A. Onillon, S. Kumaran, M. T. Ranalli, J. Thurn, G. Lukyanchenko, I. N. Machulin, Michele Montuschi, K. Choi, E. V. Hungerford, M. Gromov, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, M. S. Meyer, D. A. Semenov, G. Testera, A. Sotnikov, D. D'Angelo, G. Bonfini, M. M. Wojcik, J. Martyn, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, Alessandra Re, Frank Calaprice, Paolo Lombardi, E. Litvinovich, A. V. Derbin, Jay Burton Benziger, M. Redchuk, N. Rossi, J. Maricic, S. Appel, Kai Zuber, D. Jeschke, A. Pocar, R. B. Vogelaar, Xuefeng Ding, Gioacchino Ranucci, L. Pietrofaccia, G. Zuzel, I. Lomskaya, B. Caccianiga, Andrey Formozov, F. von Feilitzsch, Fabio Mantovani, V. Orekhov, B. Neumair, G. Korga, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, D. Guffanti, A. Di Ludovico, G. Manuzio, K. Altenmüller, L. Lukyanchenko, A. Vishneva, G. Bellini, M. Nieslony, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, Barbara Ricci, M. Gschwender, S. Marcocci, R. Tartaglia, V. Atroshchenko, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Lothar Oberauer, Matthias Laubenstein, T. Lasserre, E. Meroni, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, A. Di Giacinto, P. Cavalcante, and M. Misiaszek
Subjects: History, Particle physics, data analysis method, Analysis strategies, Analysis techniques, Cosmogenic, Geo-neutrinos, Liquid scintillator detectors, Low background, Purified water, Time windows, Geoneutrino, water, Education, NO, low [background], Borexino, liquid [scintillation counter], shielding, Computer Science Applications, Gran Sasso, geophysics [neutrino], statistics, Environmental science, Toyama 2019/09/09 [talk], experimental results
Abstract: Borexino is a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy and is one of the two detectors that has measured geoneutrinos so far. The unprecedented radio-purity of the scintillator, the shielding with highly purified water, and the placement of the detector at a 3800 m w.e. depth have resulted in very low background levels and have made Borexino an excellent apparatus for geoneutrino measurements. The analysis techniques of the latest geoneutrino results with Borexino were presented using the data obtained from December 2007 to April 2019, corresponding to an exposure of (1.12 ± 0.05) × 1032 protons × yr. Enhanced analysis techniques, such as an increased fiducial volume, improved veto for cosmogenic backgrounds, extended energy and coincidence time windows, as well as a more efficient α/β particle discrimination have been adopted in this measurement. The updated statistics and these elaborate resulted in a geoneutrino signal of 47.0 − 7.7 + 8.4 ( stat ) − 1.9 + 2.4 ( sys ) TNU with − 17.2 + 18.3 % total precision.
Published: 2020
Full Text: View/download PDF

4. Fabrication of quencher-free liquid scintillator-based, high-activity 222Rn calibration sources for the Borexino detector

Author: R. B. Vogelaar, V. Roca, P. Cavalcante, Lino Miramonti, S. Hardy, and D. Bravo-Berguño
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Fabrication, Quenching (fluorescence), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, High activity, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Borexino
Abstract: A reliable and consistently reproducible technique to fabricate 222Rn-loaded radioactive sources ( ∼ 0.5–1 kBq just after fabrication) based on liquid scintillator (LS), with negligible amounts of LS quencher contaminants, was implemented. This work demonstrates the process that will be used during the Borexino detectors upcoming calibration campaign, where one or several ∼ 100 Bq such sources will be deployed at different positions in its fiducial volume, currently showing unprecedented levels of radiopurity. These sources need to fulfill stringent requirements of 222Rn activity, transparency to the radiations of interest and complete removability from the detector to ensure their impact on Borexino’s radiopurity is negligible. Moreover, the need for a clean, undistorted spectral signal for the calibrations imposes a tight requirement to minimize scintillator quenching agents (”quenchers”) to null or extremely low levels.
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

5. Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino

Author: V. Atroshchenko, Alessandra Re, R. Tartaglia, D. Jeschke, E. V. Hungerford, Lothar Oberauer, Ö. Penek, J. Thurn, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Matteo Agostini, M. T. Ranalli, A. Sotnikov, Matthias Laubenstein, S. Appel, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Testera, S. Marcocci, Andrey Formozov, S. Kumaran, L. Lukyanchenko, K. Choi, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, An. Ianni, F. Cavanna, B. Caccianiga, G. Zuzel, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Gromov, R. B. Vogelaar, E. Meroni, I. N. Machulin, Cristiano Galbiati, D. A. Semenov, A. V. Derbin, V. Orekhov, G. Bellini, D. D'Angelo, L. Papp, M. Redchuk, A. Jany, I. Lomskaya, V. Di Marcello, O. Zaimidoroga, N. Rossi, I. S. Drachnev, Tobias Lachenmaier, J. Martyn, Marco Giammarchi, E. Litvinovich, V. N. Muratova, V. V. Kobychev, M. Gschwender, Fausto Ortica, A. Vishneva, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, D. Guffanti, J. Maricic, Xuefeng Ding, Lino Miramonti, D. Basilico, A. Di Ludovico, C. Ghiano, Kai Zuber, Caren Hagner, G. Korga, G. Manuzio, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, L. Pietrofaccia, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Di Giacinto, N. Pilipenko, A. Razeto, P. Cavalcante, D. Bravo, D. Franco, M. Misiaszek, Paolo Lombardi, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Pocar, S. Rottenanger, S. Davini, O. Smirnov, S. Schönert, E. V. Unzhakov, Marcin Wójcik, K. Altenmüller, M. Nieslony, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, Barbara Ricci, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, L. Cappelli, Jay Burton Benziger, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, 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, 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, Altenmuller, K, Appel, S, Atroshchenko, V, Bagdasarian, Z, Basilico, D, Bellini, G, Benziger, J, Bick, D, Bonfini, G, Bravo, D, Caccianiga, B, Calaprice, F, Caminata, A, Cappelli, L, Cavalcante, P, Cavanna, F, Chepurnov, A, Choi, K, D'Angelo, D, Davini, S, Derbin, A, Di Giacinto, A, Di Marcello, V, Ding, X, Di Ludovico, A, Di Noto, L, Drachnev, I, Formozov, A, Franco, D, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Gschwender, M, Ghiano, C, Giammarchi, M, Goretti, A, Gromov, M, Guffanti, D, Hagner, C, Hungerford, E, Ianni, A, Jany, A, Jeschke, D, Kumaran, S, Kobychev, V, Korga, G, Lachenmaier, T, Laubenstein, M, Litvinovich, E, Lombardi, P, Lomskaya, I, Ludhova, L, Lukyanchenko, G, Lukyanchenko, L, Machulin, I, Manuzio, G, Marcocci, S, Maricic, J, Martyn, J, Meroni, E, Meyer, M, Miramonti, L, Misiaszek, M, Muratova, V, Neumair, B, Nieslony, M, Oberauer, L, Orekhov, V, Ortica, F, Pallavicini, M, Papp, L, Penek, O, Pietrofaccia, L, Pilipenko, N, Pocar, A, Raikov, G, Ranalli, M, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Re, A, Redchuk, M, Ricci, B, Romani, A, Rossi, N, Rottenanger, S, Schonert, S, Semenov, D, Skorokhvatov, M, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Testera, G, Thurn, J, Unzhakov, E, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, R, von Feilitzsch, F, Wojcik, M, Wurm, M, 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), 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: antineutrinos, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, solar flares, magnetic field: high, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, scintillation counter: liquid, elastic scattering, antineutrino/e: particle identification, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino: flux, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], neutrino: supernova, 26.65.+t, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Borexino, Elastic scattering, Physics, Solar flare, Supernova Relic Neutrinos, neutrino: energy spectrum, S067EB8, neutrinos, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), neutrino: magnetic moment, Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background, 3. Good health, Supernova, Homestake, ddc:540, neutrino: flavor, Antineutrino, Neutrino, 97.60.Bw, Homestake experiment, Flare, antineutrino/e: flux, Antineutrinos, 13.15.+G, 26.65.+T, 29.40.Mc, Diffuse supernova neutrino background, Neutrinos, Solar flares, Supernova relic neutrinos, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Supernova relic neutrino, supernova relic neutrinos, NO, Nuclear physics, 13.15.+g, PE2_2, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], diffuse supernova neutrino background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, neutrino: particle source, Gran Sasso, Solar Flares, 13. Climate action, spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: We report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Electron antineutrinos ($\bar{\nu}_e$) are detected in an organic liquid scintillator through the inverse $\beta$-decay reaction. In the present work we set model-independent upper limits in the energy range 1.8-16.8 MeV on neutrino fluxes from unknown sources that improve our previous results, on average, by a factor 2.5. Using the same data set, we first obtain experimental constraints on the diffuse supernova $\bar{\nu}_e$ fluxes in the previously unexplored region below 8 MeV. A search for $\bar{\nu}_e$ in the solar neutrino flux is also presented: the presence of $\bar{\nu}_e$ would be a manifestation of a non-zero anomalous magnetic moment of the neutrino, making possible its conversion to antineutrinos in the strong magnetic field of the Sun. We obtain a limit for a solar $\bar{\nu}_e$ flux of 384 cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ (90% C.L.), assuming an undistorted solar $^{8}$B neutrinos energy spectrum, that corresponds to a transition probability $p_{ \nu_e \rightarrow \bar\nu_{e}}$ 1.8 MeV. At lower energies, by investigating the spectral shape of elastic scattering events, we obtain a new limit on solar $^{7}$Be-$\nu_e$ conversion into $\bar{\nu}_e$ of $p_{ \nu_e \rightarrow \bar \nu_{e}}, Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, 73 references
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

6. Results from Borexino on solar and geo-neutrinos

Author: F. von Feilitzsch, L. Di Noto, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Xuefeng Ding, Andrey Formozov, I. N. Machulin, I. S. Drachnev, A. Di Ludovico, Matteo Agostini, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Porcelli, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, D. D'Angelo, Andrea Ianni, D. Jeschke, G. Bellini, D. A. Semenov, O. Smirnov, T. Houdy, A. M. Goretti, V. Atroshchenko, V. Orekhov, G. Manuzio, K. Altenmüller, K. Choi, M. Gromov, A. V. Derbin, E. V. Unzhakov, Kai Zuber, Jay Burton Benziger, M. Carlini, S. Davini, D. Franco, Lothar Oberauer, M. S. Meyer, N. Pilipenko, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Nieslony, C. Galbiati, B. Neumair, D. Basilico, J. Maricic, S. Appel, L. Pietrofaccia, Livia Ludhova, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Rottenanger, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, R. Tartaglia, L. Papp, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, A. Razeto, Y. Suvorov, Luigi Cappelli, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, S. Schönert, M. Gschwender, E. Meroni, Fausto Ortica, A. S. Chepurnov, Alessandra Re, Lino Miramonti, F. Cavanna, Gioacchino Ranucci, S. Weinz, D. Guffanti, A. Vishneva, J. Thurn, A. Pocar, G. Bonfini, Paolo Lombardi, Frank Calaprice, B. Caccianiga, S. Marcocci, G. Lukyanchenko, L. Collica, L. Lukyanchenko, Ö. Penek, O. Zaimidoroga, M. M. Wojcik, V. V. Kobychev, Aldo Romani, G. Testera, V. N. Muratova, S. Kumaran, C. Ghiano, D. Bravo, M. Redchuk, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, S. Caprioli, G. Zuzel, A. Jany, L.F.F. Stokes, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, and Aldo Ianni
Subjects: Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar spectra, business.industry, Solar neutrino, Detector, Astronomy, Solar energy, Nuclear fusion, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, business, Borexino, Solar data
Abstract: Borexino is running at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboraries, Italy since 2007. Its technical distinctive feature is the unprecedented ultralow background of the inner scintillating core, which is the foundation for the outstanding achievements accumulated by this experiment. In this contribution, after recalling the main features of the detector, the impressive solar data gathered so far by Borexino will be summarized. Special emphasis will be given to the illustration of the recent release of the fluxes as stemming from the simultaneous real time spectroscopy of the neutrinos from the entire $pp$ nuclear fusion chain in the Sun, opening with the remarkable 2.7% accuracy of the ⁷Be flux the era of precision measurements also in the realm of the sub-MeV solar neutrinos. Such results put Borexino in the unique situation of being the only detector able to perform solar neutrino spectroscopy over the entire solar spectrum; the counterpart of this peculiar status, in the flavor conversion interpretation of the solar neutrino data, is the capability of Borexino alone to perform the full validation across the solar energy range of the MSW-LMA paradigm. This contribution will be concluded with an account of the Borexino accomplishments in the geo-neutrino field, marked by the detection of the geo-neutrino signal with a significance as high as $5.9\sigma$.
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

7. REVIEW ON SOLAR NEUTRINO STUDIES BOREXINO

Author: L. Papp, C. Ghiano, R. Tartaglia, Caren Hagner, A. Pocar, Fausto Ortica, O. Smirnov, L. Lukyanchenko, P. Cavalcante, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, A. S. Chepurnov, M. M. Wojcik, M. Misiaszek, S. Appel, N. Pilipenko, E. V. Unzhakov, G. Bonfini, S. Marcocci, Aldo Romani, E. V. Hungerford, M. Toropova, Frank Calaprice, Lino Miramonti, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Andrey Formozov, G. Manuzio, A. Porcelli, Z. Yokley, A. Di Ludovico, Gioacchino Ranucci, K. Altenmüller, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Matteo Agostini, A. M. Goretti, G. Testera, L.F.F. Stokes, S. Caprioli, D. A. Semenov, V. Atroshchenko, F. Froborg, D. Bravo, Z. Bagdasarian, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, Denis Korablev, T. Houdy, B. Caccianiga, S. Schönert, Kai Zuber, G. Zuzel, V. N. Muratova, A. Caminata, D. Kryn, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, K. Choi, M. Gromov, M. Carlini, J. Martyn, S. Weinz, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Lothar Oberauer, D. Franco, A. V. Derbin, S. Davini, B. Neumair, Matthias Laubenstein, A. Jany, L. Di Noto, B. Opitz, G. Korga, G. Lukyanchenko, D. Basilico, K. Fomenko, I. N. Machulin, Xuefeng Ding, F. von Feilitzsch, Marco Giammarchi, F. Lombardi, D. D'Angelo, E. Meroni, A. Razeto, G. Bellini, Y. Suvorov, Andrea Ianni, D. Jeschke, Jay Burton Benziger, I. S. Drachnev, Alessandra Re, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, V. V. Kobychev, R. B. Vogelaar, A. Vishneva, M. S. Meyer, and Paolo Lombardi
Subjects: Physics, Solar neutrino, Astronomy, Borexino
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

8. Limit on the effective magnetic moment of solar neutrinos using Borexino data

Author: Ö. Penek, K. Altenmüller, D. A. Semenov, Z. Yokley, V. Atroshchenko, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, T. Houdy, Lothar Oberauer, F. von Feilitzsch, L. Di Noto, G. Bellini, S. Marcocci, I. N. Machulin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, M. Toropova, L. Collica, Matthias Laubenstein, V. N. Muratova, S. Rottenanger, E. Meroni, D. Basilico, C. Galbiati, D. D'Angelo, Livia Ludhova, S. Davini, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, S. Schönert, M. Gschwender, F. Gabriele, A. V. Derbin, A. Jany, Denis Korablev, R. B. Vogelaar, N. Pilipenko, M. S. Meyer, L.F.F. Stokes, Y. Suvorov, S. Weinz, G. Manuzio, M. Carlini, F. Lombardi, G. Bonfini, E. V. Hungerford, J. Martyn, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. Redchuk, I. Bolognini, Frank Calaprice, E. Litvinovich, Paolo Lombardi, N. Rossi, B. Neumair, A. M. Goretti, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, A. Porcelli, B. Opitz, A. Razeto, L. Lukyanchenko, D. Franco, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Xuefeng Ding, J. Thurn, J. Maricic, S. Appel, A. Di Ludovico, Andrey Formozov, O. Zaimidoroga, V. V. Kobychev, Alessandra Re, Matteo Agostini, G. Zuzel, V. Orekhov, L. Papp, B. Caccianiga, Gioacchino Ranucci, Fausto Ortica, D. Guffanti, D. Bravo, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, S. Caprioli, I. S. Drachnev, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, K. Choi, M. Gromov, M. M. Wojcik, Aldo Romani, Andrea Ianni, D. Jeschke, A. Pocar, O. Smirnov, E. V. Unzhakov, Lino Miramonti, F. Cavanna, A. Vishneva, Kai Zuber, L. Pietrofaccia, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, and Jay Burton Benziger
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Electromagnetic interaction, Magnetic moment, Solar neutrino, Limit (mathematics), Borexino
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

9. Solar neutrino physics with Borexino

Author: M. Gschwender, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Tartaglia, Matteo Agostini, O. Smirnov, S. Marcocci, G. Korga, Lino Miramonti, L. Papp, Y. Suvorov, Z. Bagdasarian, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, A. V. Derbin, L. Lukyanchenko, Fausto Ortica, E. Meroni, M. Redchuk, G. Bellini, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, N. Pilipenko, S. Caprioli, N. Rossi, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, G. Raikov, A. Pocar, V. Atroshchenko, Tobias Lachenmaier, Xuefeng Ding, G. Bonfini, M. M. Wojcik, D. Franco, Marco Giammarchi, Frank Calaprice, S. Rottenanger, D. Guffanti, Lothar Oberauer, A. Caminata, F. Gabriele, Alessandra Re, Aldo Romani, R. B. Vogelaar, Kai Zuber, L. Di Noto, S. Kumaran, D. Jeschke, A. Di Ludovico, Luigi Cappelli, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Davini, S. Schönert, Aldo Ianni, G. Manuzio, L. Pietrofaccia, V. Orekhov, T. Houdy, J. Maricic, I. N. Machulin, Cristiano Galbiati, Marco Pallavicini, A. Vishneva, D. D'Angelo, Gioacchino Ranucci, K. Altenmüller, A. Porcelli, M. Carlini, S. Appel, J. Thurn, V. N. Muratova, M. Nieslony, C. Ghiano, G. Lukyanchenko, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, K. Fomenko, K. Choi, F. Cavanna, D. Bravo, L. Collica, B. Caccianiga, P. Cavalcante, O. Zaimidoroga, A. Formozov, D. A. Semenov, M. Misiaszek, L.F.F. Stokes, V. V. Kobychev, Jay Burton Benziger, S. Weinz, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, A. Jany, G. Zuzel, I. S. Drachnev, D. Basilico, A. Razeto, M. Gromov, Ö. Penek, G. Testera, E. V. Unzhakov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, 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), 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 de Paris (UP)
Subjects: fusion, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Borexino, Physics, p p: fusion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Gran Sasso, Automatic Keywords, Physics::Space Physics, Underground laboratory, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: We present the most recent solar neutrino results from the Borexino experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. In particular, refined measurements of all neutrinos produced in the {\it pp} fusion chain have been made. It is the first time that the same detector measures the entire range of solar neutrinos at once. These new data weakly favor a high-metallicity Sun. Prospects for measuring CNO solar neutrinos are also discussed., Proceedings for the 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2018), 24-28 September 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1812.02326
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

10. Constraints on Flavor-Diagonal Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions from Borexino Phase-II

Author: G. Korga, D. Jeschke, Z. Bagdasarian, S. Appel, E. Litvinovich, K. Fomenko, Michael Wurm, M. Gschwender, Matthias Laubenstein, B. Caccianiga, Ö. Penek, F. Calaprice, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, J. Thurn, L. Lukyanchenko, J. Martyn, F. Gabriele, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, G. Raikov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Tatsu Takeuchi, O. Zaimidoroga, E. Meroni, G. Zuzel, Cristiano Galbiati, P. Cavalcante, Gioacchino Ranucci, B. Neumair, D. Guffanti, M. Nieslony, D. Bravo, Fausto Ortica, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Testera, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, G. Bellini, A. Sotnikov, R. Tartaglia, N. Rossi, D. Semenov, Kai Zuber, Aldo Ianni, S. Kumaran, E. V. Unzhakov, Xuefeng Ding, A. Vishneva, A. Di Ludovico, Matteo Agostini, D. Franco, J. Maricic, Andrey Formozov, D. Basilico, M. Skorokhvatov, N. Pilipenko, F. von Feilitzsch, Y. Suvorov, S. Rottenanger, L. Oberauer, V. N. Muratova, Caren Hagner, M. Gromov, M. Meyer, Andrea Ianni, A. Di Giacinto, A. Razeto, G. Manuzio, I. N. Machulin, A. V. Derbin, M. Misiaszek, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, C. Ghiano, A. Jany, L. Cappelli, L. Pietrofaccia, A. Pocar, Marcin Wójcik, V. Atroshchenko, Chen Sun, M. Redchuk, Paolo Lombardi, Lino Miramonti, V. Di Marcello, V. V. Kobychev, E. Hungerford, I. Drachnev, F. Cavanna, K. Altenmüller, R. B. Vogelaar, Alessandra Re, A. Caminata, V. Orekhov, S. Marcocci, G. Bonfini, J. Benziger, K. Choi, S. Davini, Aldo Romani, L. Papp, L. Di Noto, Oleg Smirnov, Stefan Schönert, Agarwalla, S. K., Agostini, M., Altenmuller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bagdasarian, Z., Basilico, D., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cappelli, L., Cavalcante, P., Cavanna, F., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Giacinto, A., Di Marcello, V., Ding, X. F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Fomenko, K., Formozov, A., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Gschwender, M., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Guffanti, D., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, A., Jany, A., Jeschke, D., Kumaran, S., Kobychev, V., Korga, G., Lachenmaier, T., Laubenstein, M., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Lukyanchenko, L., Machulin, I., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Martyn, J., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Nieslony, M., Oberauer, L., Orekhov, V., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Penek, O., Pietrofaccia, L., Pilipenko, N., Pocar, A., Raikov, G., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Redchuk, M., Romani, A., Rossi, N., Rottenanger, S., Schonert, S., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sun, C., Suvorov, Y., Takeuchi, T., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Unzhakov, E., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Agarwalla, S, Agostini, M, Altenmuller, K, Appel, S, Atroshchenko, V, Bagdasarian, Z, Basilico, D, Bellini, G, Benziger, J, Bick, D, Bonfini, G, Bravo, D, Caccianiga, B, Calaprice, F, Caminata, A, Cappelli, L, Cavalcante, P, Cavanna, F, Chepurnov, A, Choi, K, D'Angelo, D, Davini, S, Derbin, A, Di Giacinto, A, Di Marcello, V, Ding, X, Di Ludovico, A, Di Noto, L, Drachnev, I, Fomenko, K, Formozov, A, Franco, D, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Gschwender, M, Ghiano, C, Giammarchi, M, Goretti, A, Gromov, M, Guffanti, D, Hagner, C, Hungerford, E, Ianni, A, Jany, A, Jeschke, D, Kumaran, S, Kobychev, V, Korga, G, Lachenmaier, T, Laubenstein, M, Litvinovich, E, Lombardi, P, Ludhova, L, Lukyanchenko, G, Lukyanchenko, L, Machulin, I, Manuzio, G, Marcocci, S, Maricic, J, Martyn, J, Meroni, E, Meyer, M, Miramonti, L, Misiaszek, M, Muratova, V, Neumair, B, Nieslony, M, Oberauer, L, Orekhov, V, Ortica, F, Pallavicini, M, Papp, L, Penek, O, Pietrofaccia, L, Pilipenko, N, Pocar, A, Raikov, G, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Re, A, Redchuk, M, Romani, A, Rossi, N, Rottenanger, S, Schonert, S, Semenov, D, Skorokhvatov, M, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Sun, C, Suvorov, Y, Takeuchi, T, Tartaglia, R, Testera, G, Thurn, J, Unzhakov, E, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, R, von Feilitzsch, F, Wojcik, M, Wurm, M, Zaimidoroga, O, Zavatarelli, S, Zuber, K, Zuzel, G, 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, 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, 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), and Physics
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Electron, metal: solar, 01 natural sciences, neutrino: flux, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), solar [model], elastic scattering [neutrino electron], [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], neutrino/e: coupling, detector [neutrino], Borexino, Physics, Elastic scattering, interaction [neutrino/tau], new physics, Beyond Standard Model, Neutrino Physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), neutrino electron: elastic scattering, coupling [neutrino/e], nuclear reactor [antineutrino], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, neutrino: detector, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, coupling [neutrino], solar [neutrino], Neutrino, precision measurement [Weinberg angle], model: solar, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, sensitivity [detector], FOS: Physical sciences, neutrino/tau: interaction, neutral current: coupling, Weinberg angle: precision measurement, neutrino: new interaction, neutrino: spectrum, 0103 physical sciences, antineutrino: nuclear reactor, neutrino: coupling, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Standard solar model, chiral [coupling], Neutral current, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, solar [metal], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, coupling [neutral current], spectrum [neutrino], flux [neutrino], coupling: chiral, detector: sensitivity, new interaction [neutrino], [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino Physic
Abstract: The Borexino detector measures solar neutrino fluxes via neutrino-electron elastic scattering. Observed spectra are determined by the solar-$\nu_{e}$ survival probability $P_{ee}(E)$, and the chiral couplings of the neutrino and electron. Some theories of physics beyond the Standard Model postulate the existence of Non-Standard Interactions (NSI's) which modify the chiral couplings and $P_{ee}(E)$. In this paper, we search for such NSI's, in particular, flavor-diagonal neutral current interactions that modify the $\nu_e e$ and $\nu_\tau e$ couplings using Borexino Phase II data. Standard Solar Model predictions of the solar neutrino fluxes for both high- and low-metallicity assumptions are considered. No indication of new physics is found at the level of sensitivity of the detector and constraints on the parameters of the NSI's are placed. In addition, with the same dataset the value of $\sin^2\theta_W$ is obtained with a precision comparable to that achieved in reactor antineutrino experiments., Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures. Slight modifications in the title, abstract, and conclusion. Few references added. Text expanded for clarity. Accepted in JHEP
Published: 2019
Full Text: View/download PDF

11. Recent results from Borexino and the first real time measure of solar pp neutrinos

Author: D. Bravo, N. Rossi, G. Bellini, D. Vignaud, R. Saldanha, E. V. Hungerford, Lino Miramonti, Matthias Laubenstein, M. Göger-Neff, F. von Feilitzsch, R. B. Vogelaar, Marco Giammarchi, Marcin Wójcik, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Kai Zuber, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, P. J. Mosteiro, Laura Cadonati, L. Papp, Michele Montuschi, A. Sotnikov, E. Meroni, C. Salvo, M. Gromov, T. Lewke, A. Caminata, Fausto Ortica, D. Kryn, F. Gabriele, Manuel Meyer, O. Smirnov, G. Lukyanchenko, I. N. Machulin, Aldo Ianni, Aldo Romani, Paolo Lombardi, K. Otis, Marco Pallavicini, K. Fomenko, E. Litvinovich, M. Obolensky, Q. Meindl, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, D. D'Angelo, J. Winter, S. Marcocci, C. Galbiati, D. Franco, F. Lombardi, S. Manecki, A. Razeto, Lothar Oberauer, S. Gazzana, S. Davini, B. Lehnert, R. Tartaglia, A. Pocar, A. V. Derbin, Anton Empl, G. Bonfini, G. Zuzel, Frank Calaprice, Jay Burton Benziger, W. Maneschg, Alessandra Re, Hardy Simgen, Hongwei Wang, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, V. V. Kobychev, S. Schönert, G. Korga, Gioacchino Ranucci, B. Caccianiga, G. Testera, Denis Korablev, V. N. Muratova, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, A.V. Etenko, 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), Zavatarelli, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chavarria, A., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Empl, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Otis, K., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Rossi, N., 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., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wright, A., Wurm, M., Zaimidoroga, O., 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), 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), 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: geo-neutrinos, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino oscillation, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Geo-neutrinos, Neutrino oscillations, Solar neutrinos, Solar neutrino, talk: Valencia 2014/07/02, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Physics::Geophysics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Borexino, Physics, neutrino oscillations, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino problem, Gran Sasso, Neutrino detector, Geo-neutrino, solar neutrinos, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, neutrino: geophysics, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino detector was built starting from 1996 in the underground hall C of Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy under about 1400 m of rock (3800 m.w.e) and it is mostly aimed to the study in real-time of the low-energy solar neutrinos.Since the beginning of data taking, in May 2007, the unprecedented detector radio-purity made the performances of the detector unique: a milestone has been very recently achieved with the measurement of solar pp neutrino flux, providing the first direct observation in real time of the key fusion reaction powering the Sun.In this contribution the most important Borexino achievements to the fields of solar, geo-neutrino and particle physics are reviewed and the future perspectives discussed, emphasizing in particular the unique possibility of Borexino to cover at the end of its program the entire solar neutrino spectrum and to exploit the possible existence of a fourth sterile neutrino (SOX project).
Published: 2016
Full Text: View/download PDF

12. Results on geoneutrinos at Borexino

Author: Al. Ianni, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Andrey Formozov, Z. Yokley, V. Atroshchenko, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, R. Tartaglia, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, L. Di Noto, N. Rossi, J. Thurn, A. Di Ludovico, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, Matteo Agostini, D. A. Semenov, A. S. Chepurnov, V. Orekhov, I. N. Machulin, Lothar Oberauer, F. von Feilitzsch, G. Bellini, D. Opitz, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Matthias Laubenstein, A. Caminata, T. Houdy, Xuefeng Ding, M. M. Wojcik, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, A. M. Goretti, Aldo Romani, M. Carlini, Denis Korablev, P. Cavalcante, G. Manuzio, M. Misiaszek, B. Neumair, R. B. Vogelaar, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, N. Pilipenko, S. Rottenanger, L. Papp, G. Zuzel, M. S. Meyer, A. Pocar, D. Basilico, E. Meroni, E. V. Hungerford, Ö. Penek, Fausto Ortica, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, J. Maricic, A. V. Derbin, S. Appel, M. Gschwender, K. Altenmüller, D. Guffanti, O. Smirnov, I. Bolognino, G. Lukyanchenko, A. Sotnikov, E. V. Unzhakov, G. Testera, Paolo Lombardi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Alessandra Re, S. Schönert, Marco Giammarchi, O. Zaimidoroga, F. Lombardi, S. Caprioli, V. V. Kobychev, V. N. Muratova, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, L. Collica, Jay Burton Benziger, A. Jany, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Porcelli, S. Weinz, Gioacchino Ranucci, Y. Suvorov, B. Caccianiga, A. Vishneva, S. Davini, L. Lukyanchenko, D. Bravo, Lino Miramonti, F. Cavanna, L.F.F. Stokes, D. Jeschke, An. Ianni, Kai Zuber, L. Pietrofaccia, M. Redchuk, D. Franco, A. Razeto, K. Choi, M. Gromov, and I. S. Drachnev
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Low energy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Scintillator, National laboratory, Borexino, Physics::Geophysics
Abstract: The latest and more complete geo-neutrinos Borexino results, are briefly presented and discussed. Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector located at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, whose primary purpose is the real-time spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos. It is the only experiment so far to have provided an evidence of geo-neutrinos existence beyond a 5σ significance level. The geo-neutrinos measurement and analysis, along with implications from the geological point of view, are shortly discussed.
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

13. Solar Neutrinos Spectroscopy with Borexino Phase-II

Author: A. Di Ludovico, G. Manuzio, L. Lukyanchenko, Matthias Laubenstein, J. Maricic, S. Appel, M. Redchuk, S. Caprioli, E. Meroni, N. Pilipenko, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, Z. Yokley, G. Zuzel, P. Cavalcante, N. Rossi, G. Bonfini, V. Atroshchenko, B. Caccianiga, M. S. Meyer, M. Misiaszek, Frank Calaprice, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, Xuefeng Ding, D. A. Semenov, O. Smirnov, A. M. Goretti, Paolo Lombardi, A. Jany, Alessandra Re, T. Houdy, Matteo Agostini, E. V. Hungerford, S. Davini, E. V. Unzhakov, O. Zaimidoroga, V. V. Kobychev, A. Sotnikov, K. Altenmueller, R. B. Vogelaar, D. Franco, S. Weinz, I. N. Machulin, A. Vishneva, Aldo Ianni, F. Cavanna, A. Pocar, Y. Suvorov, G. Lukyanchenko, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Raikov, Z. Bagdasarian, R. Tartaglia, S. Rottenanger, M. Carlini, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, S. Schönert, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, L. Collica, D. Jeschke, A. Caminata, F. Gabriele, D. Guffanti, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Denis Korablev, Andrey Formozov, Michael Wurm, A. V. Derbin, M. M. Wojcik, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Porcelli, I. Bolognino, Aldo Romani, M. Gschwender, L. Di Noto, C. Galbiati, Lino Miramonti, Livia Ludhova, A. S. Chepurnov, Ö. Penek, G. Testera, J. Thurn, G. Bellini, Gioacchino Ranucci, L.F.F. Stokes, D. Bravo, D. Basilico, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, K. Choi, M. Gromov, I. S. Drachnev, Kai Zuber, and L. Pietrofaccia
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, particle_field_physics, Phase (waves), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino oscillation, Spectroscopy, Borexino
Abstract: Solar neutrinos have played a central role in the discovery of the neutrino oscillation mechanism. They still are proving to be a unique tool to help investigate the fusion reactions that power stars and further probe basic neutrino properties. The Borexino neutrino observatory has been operationally acquiring data at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy since 2007. Its main goal is the real-time study of low energy neutrinos (solar or originated elsewhere, such as geo-neutrinos). The latest analysis of experimental data, taken during the so-called Borexino Phase-II (2011-present), will be showcased in this talk - yielding new high-precision, simultaneous wide band flux measurements of the four main solar neutrino components belonging to the "pp" fusion chain (pp, pep, 7Be, 8B), as well as upper limits on the remaining two solar neutrino fluxes (CNO and hep).
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

14. Solar neutrino spectroscopy in Borexino

Author: G. Raikov, G. Lukyanchenko, Aldo Romani, G. Korga, L. Di Noto, R. Tartaglia, Livia Ludhova, Z. Bagdasarian, L. Cappelli, Jay Burton Benziger, Aldo Ianni, E. V. Hungerford, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, M. Carlini, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. Gschwender, J. Thurn, B. Neumair, Cristiano Galbiati, M. Meyer, D. Bravo, K. Fomenko, D. Basilico, Ö. Penek, A. Sotnikov, L. Papp, P. Cavalcante, S. Appel, K. Altenmüller, G. Bonfini, D. Franco, A. Razeto, D. A. Semenov, A. Vishneva, Fausto Ortica, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Frank Calaprice, S. Caprioli, M. Redchuk, D. Guffanti, S. Weinz, G. Testera, S. Rottenanger, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, K. Choi, Alessandra Re, Paolo Lombardi, M. Gromov, M. Nieslony, Lino Miramonti, N. Pilipenko, S. Schönert, G. Bellini, Gioacchino Ranucci, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Davini, T. Houdy, F. von Feilitzsch, V. V. Kobychev, F. Cavanna, Matteo Agostini, B. Caccianiga, A. Jany, V. Orekhov, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Maricic, C. Ghiano, A. Caminata, S. Kumaran, Marco Pallavicini, A. V. Derbin, V. N. Muratova, F. Gabriele, M. M. Wojcik, I. S. Drachnev, M. Misiaszek, D. Jeschke, A. Formozov, L.F.F. Stokes, O. Smirnov, S. Marcocci, I. N. Machulin, L. Collica, G. Zuzel, D. D'Angelo, A. Porcelli, E. V. Unzhakov, Kai Zuber, A. Di Ludovico, G. Manuzio, A. Pocar, L. Pietrofaccia, Y. Suvorov, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Xuefeng Ding, Matthias Laubenstein, L. Lukyanchenko, E. Meroni, V. Atroshchenko, 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 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), 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: neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Metallicity, Nuclear physics, background: low, neutrino: spectrum, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Neutrino oscillation, Spectroscopy, Borexino, Physics, Proton–proton chain reaction, pp-chain, p p: fusion, precision measurement, Detector, Automatic Keywords, 13. Climate action, solar neutrinos, spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; In more than ten years of operation, Borexino has performed a precision measurement of the solar neutrino spectrum, resolving almost all spectral components originating from the proton-proton fusion chain. The presentation will review the results recently released for the second data taking phase 2012–2016 during which the detector excelled by its unprecedentedly low background levels. New results on the rate of pp, 7Be, pep and 8B neutrinos as well as their implications for solar neutrino oscillations and metallicity are discussed.
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

15. Perspectives for CNO neutrino detection in Borexino

Author: V. Atroshchenko, D. A. Semenov, Y. Suvorov, Ö. Penek, Lothar Oberauer, N. Pilipenko, Matthias Laubenstein, D. Bravo, C. Ghiano, M. M. Wojcik, D. Basilico, Andrey Formozov, M. Redchuk, V. N. Muratova, G. Testera, J. Thurn, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, O. Zaimidoroga, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, D. Franco, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Razeto, N. Rossi, L. Lukyanchenko, Jay Burton Benziger, L. Di Noto, Cristiano Galbiati, M. Misiaszek, V. Orekhov, V. V. Kobychev, Matteo Agostini, I. N. Machulin, G. Bonfini, S. Davini, Frank Calaprice, M. Carlini, D. D'Angelo, S. Kumaran, A. Porcelli, Xuefeng Ding, G. Lukyanchenko, E. Meroni, A. Jany, M. Gromov, S. Appel, G. Bellini, A. Pocar, R. B. Vogelaar, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, T. Houdy, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, M. Gschwender, Fausto Ortica, G. Raikov, R. Tartaglia, Gioacchino Ranucci, D. Guffanti, I. S. Drachnev, O. Smirnov, B. Caccianiga, Livia Ludhova, S. Caprioli, G. Zuzel, K. Choi, E. V. Hungerford, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, Paolo Lombardi, Lino Miramonti, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, Aldo Romani, A. Di Ludovico, P. Cavalcante, F. Cavanna, G. Manuzio, A. V. Derbin, S. Weinz, Alessandra Re, E. V. Unzhakov, L.F.F. Stokes, Kai Zuber, D. Jeschke, L. Pietrofaccia, J. Maricic, A. Vishneva, G. Korga, Z. Bagdasarian, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, S. Rottenanger, Luigi Cappelli, S. Schönert, K. Altenmüller, M. Nieslony, S. Marcocci, L. Collica, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, 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), Meyer, M, Zuber, K, Guffanti, D, Agostini, M, Altenmüller, K, Appel, S, Atroshchenko, V, Bagdasarian, Z, Basilico, D, Bellini, G, Benziger, J, Bonfini, G, Bravo, D, Caccianiga, B, Calaprice, F, Caminata, A, Cappelli, L, Caprioli, S, Carlini, M, Cavalcante, P, Cavanna, F, Chepurnov, A, Choi, K, Collica, L, D’Angelo, D, Davini, S, Derbin, A, Ding, X, Di Ludovico, A, Di Noto, L, Drachnev, I, Fomenko, K, Formozov, A, Franco, D, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Gschwender, M, Ghiano, C, Giammarchi, M, Goretti, A, Gromov, M, Houdy, T, Hungerford, E, Ianni, A, Jany, A, Jeschke, D, Kumaran, S, Kobychev, V, Korga, G, Lachenmaier, T, Laubenstein, M, Litvinovich, E, Lombardi, P, Ludhova, L, Lukyanchenko, G, Lukyanchenko, L, Machulin, I, Manuzio, G, Marcocci, S, Maricic, J, Martyn, J, Meroni, E, Miramonti, L, Misiaszek, M, Muratova, V, Neumair, B, Nieslony, M, Oberauer, L, Orekhov, V, Ortica, F, Pallavicini, M, Papp, L, Penek, Ö, Pietrofaccia, L, Pilipenko, N, Pocar, A, Porcelli, A, Raikov, G, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Re, A, Redchuk, M, Romani, A, Rossi, N, Rottenanger, S, Schönert, S, Semenov, D, Skorokhvatov, M, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Stokes, L, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Testera, G, Thurn, J, Unzhakov, E, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, R, von Feilitzsch, F, Weinz, S, 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), 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, 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: CNO cycle, experimental methods, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, scintillation counter: liquid, Solar neutrinos, bismuth: admixture, Astrophysics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, CNO-cycle, neutrino: flux, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Stellar evolution, Borexino, liquid scintillator, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Energy distribution, detector, background, bismuth: nuclide, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Experimental methods, Neutrino
Abstract: International audience; Borexino measured with unprecedented accuracy the fluxes of solar neutrinos emitted at all the steps of the pp fusion chain. Still missing is the measurement of the flux of neutrinos produced in the CNO cycle. A positive measurement of the CNO neutrino flux is of fundamental importance for understanding the evolution of stars and addressing the unresolved controversy on the solar abundances. The measurement of the CNO neutrino flux in Borexino is challenging because of the low intensity of this component (CNO cycle accounts for about 1% of the energy emitted by Sun), the lack of prominent spectral features and the presence of background sources. The main background component is 210Bi decaying in the liquid scintillator of Borexino that creates events with an energy distribution very close to the one of CNO neutrino interactions. Since 2015 the collaboration undertook significant efforts to achieve an independent measurement of the background affecting a CNO measurement, whose impact on the sensitivity to a CNO signal will be discussed.
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

16. Comprehensive measurement of pp-chain solar neutrinos

Author: J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, B. Opitz, G. Lukyanchenko, Xuefeng Ding, O. Smirnov, A. Di Ludovico, M. Redchuk, Aldo Ianni, Z. Yokley, D. Jeschke, G. Manuzio, D. Kryn, Marcin Wójcik, V. Atroshchenko, A. Pocar, G. Raikov, M. D. Skorokhvatov, A. V. Derbin, Ö. Penek, Z. Bagdasarian, Matteo Agostini, P. Cavalcante, H. ang, K. Fomenko, F.L. Villante, Lothar Oberauer, Michael Wurm, S. Caprioli, D. A. Semenov, O. Zaimidoroga, Matthias Laubenstein, G. Bonfini, Y. Suvorov, A. Caminata, L. Lukyanchenko, V. V. Kobychev, A. Vishneva, Lino Miramonti, T. Houdy, E. V. Unzhakov, I. N. Machulin, J. Thurn, K. Choi, R. Roncin, M. Gromov, V. N. Muratova, Gioacchino Ranucci, E. Meroni, Marco Giammarchi, S. Schönert, A. Razeto, N. Pilipenko, Marco Pallavicini, S. Weinz, D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, D. Franco, C. Ghiano, S. Marcocci, Caren Hagner, R. Tartaglia, M. Toropova, L. Collica, M. S. Meyer, G. Testera, Cristiano Galbiati, L.F.F. Stokes, F. Gabriele, K. Altenmüller, D. Bravo, Aldo Romani, S. Appel, L. Di Noto, M. Misiaszek, S. Davini, D. Basilico, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Paolo Lombardi, A. Porcelli, G. Korga, B. Caccianiga, F. Lombardi, Kai Zuber, I. S. Drachnev, A. Jany, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, Jay Burton Benziger, Alessandra Re, G. Zuzel, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Carlini, B. Neumair, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, D. Korablev, D. Guffanti, Andrey Formozov, F. von Feilitzsch, V. Orekhov, Frank Calaprice, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, 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), Agostini, M., Altenmüller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bagdasarian, Z., Basilico, D., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Caprioli, S., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Collica, L., D’Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Ding, X. F., Di ludovico, A., Di noto, L., Drachnev, I., Fomenko, K., Formozov, A., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Guffanti, D., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jany, A., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Lukyanchenko, L., Machulin, I., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Martyn, J., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Opitz, B., Orekhov, V., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Penek, Ã ., Pilipenko, N., Pocar, A., Porcelli, A., Raikov, G., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Redchuk, M., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schönert, S., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Stokes, L. F. F., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Villante, F. L., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., Yokley, Z., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., Agostini, M, Altenmuller, K, Appel, S, Atroshchenko, V, Bagdasarian, Z, Basilico, D, Bellini, G, Benziger, J, Bick, D, Bonfini, G, Bravo, D, Caccianiga, B, Calaprice, F, Caminata, A, Caprioli, S, Carlini, M, Cavalcante, P, Chepurnov, A, Choi, K, Collica, L, D'Angelo, D, Davini, S, Derbin, A, Ding, X, Diludovico, A, Dinoto, L, Drachnev, I, Fomenko, K, Formozov, A, Franco, D, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Ghiano, C, Giammarchi, M, Goretti, A, Gromov, M, Guffanti, D, Hagner, C, Houdy, T, Hungerford, E, Ianni, A, Jany, A, Jeschke, D, Kobychev, V, Korablev, D, Korga, G, Kryn, D, Laubenstein, M, Litvinovich, E, Lombardi, F, Lombardi, P, Ludhova, L, Lukyanchenko, G, Lukyanchenko, L, Machulin, I, Manuzio, G, Marcocci, S, Martyn, J, Meroni, E, Meyer, M, Miramonti, L, Misiaszek, M, Muratova, V, Neumair, B, Oberauer, L, Opitz, B, Orekhov, V, Ortica, F, Pallavicini, M, Papp, L, Penek, O, Pilipenko, N, Pocar, A, Porcelli, A, Raikov, G, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Re, A, Redchuk, M, Romani, A, Roncin, R, Rossi, N, Schonert, S, Semenov, D, Skorokhvatov, M, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Stokes, L, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Testera, G, Thurn, J, Toropova, M, Unzhakov, E, Villante, F, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, R, von Feilitzsch, F, Wang, H, Weinz, S, 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: Nuclear reaction, electron, neutrino: solar, Solar neutrino, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, nuclear reaction, neutrino: flux, energy: threshold, energy: solar, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Borexino, Physics, Proton–proton chain reaction, Multidisciplinary, S067SES, S067B7T, semileptonic decay, neutrino electron: elastic scattering, Neutrino, model: solar, chemistry.chemical_element, helium, neutrino: beam, S067SBT, Nuclear physics, S067CNT, 0103 physical sciences, S067HPT, surface, Helium, S067PPT, Liquid Scintillator, pp-chain, p p: fusion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, temperature, Detector, S067PET, Solar energy, Gran Sasso, chemistry, hydrogen, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], experimental results
Abstract: International audience; About 99 per cent of solar energy is produced through sequences of nuclear reactions that convert hydrogen into helium, starting from the fusion of two protons (the pp chain). The neutrinos emitted by five of these reactions represent a unique probe of the Sun’s internal working and, at the same time, offer an intense natural neutrino beam for fundamental physics. Here we report a complete study of the pp chain. We measure the neutrino–electron elastic-scattering rates for neutrinos produced by four reactions of the chain: the initial proton–proton fusion, the electron-capture decay of beryllium-7, the three-body proton–electron–proton (pep) fusion, here measured with the highest precision so far achieved, and the boron-8 beta decay, measured with the lowest energy threshold. We also set a limit on the neutrino flux produced by the$^{3}$He–proton fusion (hep). These measurements provide a direct determination of the relative intensity of the two primary terminations of the pp chain (pp-I and pp-II) and an indication that the temperature profile in the Sun is more compatible with solar models that assume high surface metallicity. We also determine the survival probability of solar electron neutrinos at different energies, thus probing simultaneously and with high precision the neutrino flavour-conversion paradigm, both in vacuum and in matter-dominated regimes.
Published: 2018
Full Text: View/download PDF

17. The measurement of the pp chain solar neutrinos in Borexino

Author: G. Testera, J. Martyn, N. Pilipenko, Lothar Oberauer, M. Redchuk, A. Sotnikov, E. Litvinovich, Matteo Agostini, Matthias Laubenstein, N. Rossi, D. A. Semenov, S. Davini, T. Houdy, L. Lukyanchenko, R. Tartaglia, A. Pocar, E. Meroni, S. Weinz, S. Appel, A. Razeto, C. Ghiano, Xuefeng Ding, Gioacchino Ranucci, O. Smirnov, M. Gschwender, A. Jany, D. Franco, O. Zaimidoroga, P. Cavalcante, S. Kumaran, Alessandra Re, G. Lukyanchenko, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, E. V. Unzhakov, V. V. Kobychev, J. Thurn, D. Basilico, M. Misiaszek, A. Cappelli, B. Caccianiga, R. B. Vogelaar, F.L. Villante, V. N. Muratova, ̈. Penek, Y. Suvorov, G. Zuzel, D. Jeschke, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Kai Zuber, I. S. Drachnev, Lino Miramonti, M. M. Wojcik, D. Bravo, A. Di Ludovico, Aldo Ianni, V. Atroshchenko, J. Maricic, I. N. Machulin, L. Pietrofaccia, S. Caprioli, D. D'Angelo, L.F.F. Stokes, A. Porcelli, S. Rottenanger, Paolo Lombardi, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, S. Schönert, M. Gromov, Andrea Ianni, Sandra Zavatarelli, K. Choi, F. Cavanna, Jay Burton Benziger, A. V. Derbin, G. Bellini, Z. Bagdasarian, G. Korga, A. Vishneva, G. Manuzioc, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Raikov, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, K. Altenmüller, M. Carlini, M. Nieslony, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, S. Marcocci, L. Collica, K. Fomenko, Andrey Formozov, F. von Feilitzsch, V. Orekhov, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, D. Guffanti, and E. V. Hungerford
Subjects: Proton–proton chain reaction, Physics, Particle physics, Solar neutrino, Borexino
Published: 2018

18. The Borexino Thermal Monitoring & Management System and simulations of the fluid-dynamics of the Borexino detector under asymmetrical, changing boundary conditions

Author: F. Gabriele, T. Wright, An. Ianni, Riccardo Mereu, Fabio Inzoli, M. Carlini, D. Bravo-Berguño, Frank Calaprice, A. M. Goretti, P. Cavalcante, R. B. Vogelaar, and Z. Yokley
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear engineering, Instrumentation, Background stability, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Natural convection, Neutrino detector, Radiopurity, Thermal control, FOS: Physical sciences, Computational fluid dynamics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Fluid dynamics, 010306 general physics, Borexino, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Benchmark (computing), business
Abstract: A comprehensive monitoring system for the thermal environment inside the Borexino neutrino detector was developed and installed in order to reduce uncertainties in determining temperatures throughout the detector. A complementary thermal management system limits undesirable thermal couplings between the environment and Borexino's active sections. This strategy is bringing improved radioactive background conditions to the region of interest for the physics signal thanks to reduced fluid mixing induced in the liquid scintillator. Although fluid-dynamical equilibrium has not yet been fully reached, and thermal fine-tuning is possible, the system has proven extremely effective at stabilizing the detector's thermal conditions while offering precise insights into its mechanisms of internal thermal transport. Furthermore, a Computational Fluid-Dynamics analysis has been performed, based on the empirical measurements provided by the thermal monitoring system, and providing information into present and future thermal trends. A two-dimensional modeling approach was implemented in order to achieve a proper understanding of the thermal and fluid-dynamics in Borexino. It was optimized for different regions and periods of interest, focusing on the most critical effects that were identified as influencing background concentrations. Literature experimental case studies were reproduced to benchmark the method and settings, and a Borexino-specific benchmark was implemented in order to validate the modeling approach for thermal transport. Finally, fully-convective models were applied to understand general and specific fluid motions impacting the detector's Active Volume., arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1705.09078, arXiv:1705.09658
Published: 2018

19. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

20. Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data

Author: Y. Suvorov, S. Davini, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, I. N. Machulin, Matthias Laubenstein, N. Rossi, M. Carlini, D. A. Semenov, Marco Pallavicini, L. Lukyanchenko, M. D. Skorokhvatov, S. Caprioli, B. Opitz, D. D'Angelo, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, Aldo Ianni, Michael Wurm, Z. Bagdasarian, Kai Zuber, S. Weinz, Xuefeng Ding, B. Neumair, T. Houdy, G. Korga, S. Appel, F. Froborg, K. Fomenko, L. Papp, G. Lukyanchenko, E. Meroni, V. V. Kobychev, C. Ghiano, G. Bellini, A. M. Goretti, Fausto Ortica, Caren Hagner, Z. Yokley, D. Guffanti, V. Atroshchenko, M. Redchuk, Aldo Romani, L.F.F. Stokes, I. S. Drachnev, Matteo Agostini, Marcin Wójcik, Andrey Formozov, N. Pilipenko, D. Franco, P. Cavalcante, D. Kryn, A. Di Ludovico, L. Di Noto, Jay Burton Benziger, Alessandra Re, G. Manuzio, M. S. Meyer, M. Misiaszek, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Vishneva, Lothar Oberauer, O. Smirnov, V. Orekhov, V. N. Muratova, B. Caccianiga, E. V. Unzhakov, D. Bravo, Paolo Lombardi, K. Choi, Lino Miramonti, M. Gromov, A. Pocar, D. Jeschke, D. Basilico, G. Bonfini, F. Lombardi, A. V. Derbin, A. Razeto, J. Thurn, R. Tartaglia, R. Roncin, Frank Calaprice, Marco Giammarchi, Ö. Penek, G. Testera, C. Galbiati, Livia Ludhova, A. S. Chepurnov, Denis Korablev, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, S. Schönert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. Porcelli, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Caminata, G. Zuzel, F. Gabriele, A. Jany, K. Altenmüller, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, L. Collica, Agostini, M, Altenmuller, K, Appel, S, Atroshchenko, V, Bagdasarian, Z, Basilico, D, Bellini, G, Benziger, J, Bick, D, Bonfini, G, Bravo, D, Caccianiga, B, Calaprice, F, Caminata, A, Caprioli, S, Carlini, M, Cavalcante, P, Chepurnov, A, Choi, K, Collica, L, D'Angelo, D, Davini, S, Derbin, A, Ding, X, Di Ludovico, A, Di Noto, L, Drachnev, I, Fomenko, K, Formozov, A, Franco, D, Froborg, F, Gabriele, F, Galbiati, C, Ghiano, C, Giammarchi, M, Goretti, A, Gromov, M, Guffanti, D, Hagner, C, Houdy, T, Hungerford, E, Ianni, A, Jany, A, Jeschke, D, Kobychev, V, Korablev, D, Korga, G, Kryn, D, Laubenstein, M, Litvinovich, E, Lombardi, F, Lombardi, P, Ludhova, L, Lukyanchenko, G, Lukyanchenko, L, Machulin, I, Manuzio, G, Marcocci, S, Martyn, J, Meroni, E, Meyer, M, Miramonti, L, Misiaszek, M, Muratova, V, Neumair, B, Oberauer, L, Opitz, B, Orekhov, V, Ortica, F, Pallavicini, M, Papp, L, Penek, O, Pilipenko, N, Pocar, A, Porcelli, A, Ranucci, G, Razeto, A, Re, A, Redchuk, M, Romani, A, Roncin, R, Rossi, N, Schonert, S, Semenov, D, Skorokhvatov, M, Smirnov, O, Sotnikov, A, Stokes, L, Suvorov, Y, Tartaglia, R, Testera, G, Thurn, J, Toropova, M, Unzhakov, E, Vishneva, A, Vogelaar, R, Von Feilitzsch, F, Wang, H, Weinz, S, Wojcik, M, Wurm, M, Yokley, Z, Zaimidoroga, O, Zavatarelli, S, Zuber, K, Zuzel, G, 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., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bagdasarian, Z., Basilico, D., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Caprioli, S., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Collica, L., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Ding, X. F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Fomenko, K., Formozov, A., Franco, D., Froborg, F., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Guffanti, D., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jany, A., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Lukyanchenko, L., Machulin, I., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Martyn, J., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Muratova, V., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Opitz, B., Orekhov, V., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Penek, O., Pilipenko, N., Pocar, A., Porcelli, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Redchuk, M., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., 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, F., 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: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), SPIN ROTATION, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), electron: recoil, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Borexino, S066MGM, gallium, Physics, Magnetic moment, neutrino: magnetic moment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, neutrino: moment, neutrino: flavor, neutrino: Majorana, Measurements of neutrino speed, Neutrino, upper limit, Particle physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, DECAYS, Nuclear physics, statistical analysis, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, DETECTOR, ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, MAJORANA NEUTRINOS, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], electron: energy spectrum, [ PHYS.HPHE ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], High Energy Physics::Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: A search for the solar neutrino effective magnetic moment has been performed using data from 1291.5 days exposure during the second phase of the Borexino experiment. No significant deviations from the expected shape of the electron recoil spectrum from solar neutrinos have been found, and a new upper limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment of $\mu_{\nu}^{eff}$ $, Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2017
Full Text: View/download PDF

21. CeSOX: An experimental test of the sterile neutrino hypothesis with Borexino

Author: L. Papp, A. Di Ludovico, Fausto Ortica, Matthias Laubenstein, G. Manuzio, D. Guffanti, Denis Korablev, L. Lukyanchenko, E. Meroni, V. Fischer, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, M. Carlini, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, Z. Yokley, Ö. Penek, F. Gabriele, S. Appel, Aldo Romani, V. Atroshchenko, L. Di Noto, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, A. V. Derbin, S. Farinon, M. Misiaszek, A. Formozov, N. Pilipenko, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Testera, Lothar Oberauer, A. Pocar, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Alessandra Re, A Trantel, J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, O. Zaimidoroga, A. Jany, F. Lombardi, H. Wang, K. Altenmüller, N. Jonquères, S. Rottenanger, G. Mention, N. Rossi, B. Caccianiga, E. V. Hungerford, Y. Suvorov, B. Opitz, R. B. Vogelaar, D. A. Semenov, Marcin Wójcik, S. Caprioli, Livia Ludhova, I. N. Machulin, V. V. Kobychev, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, V. Kornoukhov, S. Schönert, Xuefeng Ding, G. Bellini, Tobias Lachenmaier, D. D'Angelo, Marco Giammarchi, V. N. Muratova, M. Durero, A. Porcelli, C. Veyssiere, M. Cribier, O. Smirnov, A. Vishneva, Thierry Lasserre, M. Gschwender, S. Davini, Matteo Agostini, L.F.F. Stokes, E. V. Unzhakov, R. Tartaglia, G. Zuzel, S. Marcocci, S. Weinz, Lino Miramonti, D. Bravo, M. Toropova, L. Collica, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Korga, Paolo Lombardi, Z. Bagdasarian, J. Maricic, P. Cavalcante, Gioacchino Ranucci, G. Bonfini, Andrea Ianni, Frank Calaprice, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, K. Fomenko, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Franco, Kai Zuber, J. Gaffiot, D. Kryn, M. Redchuk, K. Choi, O. Cloué, L. Scola, V. Orekhov, D. Jeschke, R. Musenich, M. Vivier, Cristiano Galbiati, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, D. Basilico, A. Razeto, I. S. Drachnev, 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)), 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), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire) (CEA-DES (ex-DEN)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Gromov, M., Agostini, M., Altenmueller, K., Appel, S., Atroshchenko, V., Bagdasarian, Z., Basilico, D., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Caprioli, S., Carlini, M., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., Choi, K., Cloue, O., Collica, L., Cribier, M., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Ding, X. F., Di Ludovico, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Durero, M., Farinon, S., Fischer, V., Fomenko, K., Formozov, A., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Gaffiot, J., Galbiati, C., Gschwender, M., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goretti, A., Guffanti, D., Hagner, C., Houdy, T., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqueres, N., Jany, A., Jeschke, D., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kornoukhov, V., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Lukyanchenko, L., Machulin, I., Manuzio, G., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Martyn, J., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Opitz, B., Orekhov, V., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Penek, Oe, Pilipenko, N., Pocar, A., Porcelli, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Redchuk, M., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Rottenanger, S., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Stokes, L. F. F., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thurn, J., Toropova, M., Trantel, A., Unzhakov, E., Veyssiere, C., Vishneva, A., Vivier, M., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Weinz, S., 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: Physics, neutrino: sterile: search for, History, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Initial activity, sensitivity, 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, PHYSICS, Physics and Astronomy (all), cesium, 0103 physical sciences, OSCILLATIONS, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Borexino, proposed experiment, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, antineutrino: particle source, talk: Moscow 2017/10/02
Abstract: International audience; The third phase of the Borexino experiment that’s referred to as SOX is devoted to test the hypothesis of the existence of one (or more) sterile neutrinos at a short baseline (~5–10m). The experimental measurement will be made with artificial sources namely with a 144Ce–144Pr antineutrino source at the first stage (CeSOX) and possibly with a 51Cr neutrino source at the second one. The fixed 144Ce–144Pr sample will be placed beneath the detector in a special pit and the initial activity will be about 100 – 150 kCi. The start of data taking is scheduled for April 2018. The article gives a short description of the preparation for the first stage and shows the expected sensitivity.
Published: 2017
Full Text: View/download PDF

22. Recent Borexino results and perspectives of the SOX measurement

Author: J. Martyn, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, N. Rossi, F. Lombardi, I. N. Machulin, K. Altenmüller, N. Jonquères, B. Opitz, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Xuefeng Ding, G. Testera, A. Porcelli, G. Bellini, D. Bravo, Denis Korablev, M. M. Wojcik, J. Thurn, R. Roncin, M. D. Skorokhvatov, A. V. Derbin, S. Farinon, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, Michael Wurm, M. Gschwender, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Marcocci, H. Wang, E. V. Hungerford, Lino Miramonti, D. Franco, L. Papp, V. V. Kobychev, C. Ghiano, S. Appel, Caren Hagner, M. Toropova, Z. Yokley, V. Atroshchenko, S. Weinz, D. Kryn, R. B. Vogelaar, D. A. Semenov, Andrea Ianni, M. Misiaszek, Kai Zuber, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Thierry Lasserre, B. Caccianiga, I. S. Drachnev, R. Tartaglia, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, Matteo Agostini, Lothar Oberauer, S. Caprioli, Matthias Laubenstein, Alessandra Re, P. Cavalcante, A. Caminata, Gioacchino Ranucci, Fausto Ortica, F. Gabriele, L. Lukyanchenko, Paolo Lombardi, N. Pilipenko, D. Basilico, F. Froborg, V. Kornoukhov, E. Meroni, K. Choi, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, A. Razeto, J. Maricic, J. Gaffiot, R. Musenich, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, S. Rottenanger, V. N. Muratova, M. Scola, S. Schönert, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, M. Carlini, D. Jeschke, G. Zuzel, B. Neumair, M. Meyer, K. Fomenko, Andrey Formozov, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Vishneva, A. Jany, O. Cloué, G. Korga, M. Vivier, Cristiano Galbiati, M. Durero, L.F.F. Stokes, Z. Bagdasarian, C. Veyssiere, Jay Burton Benziger, M. Cribier, O. Smirnov, G. Lukyanchenko, E. V. Unzhakov, V. Fischer, A. Di Ludovico, G. Manuzio, A. Pocar, S. Davini, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, 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), Borexino/SOX, 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), 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: Sterile neutrino, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, QC1-999, scintillation counter: liquid, anomaly, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear fusion, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, Physics, gallium, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, star: formation, stability, neutrino: sterile, sensitivity, beryllium, Gran Sasso, LSND, electron: lifetime, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: oscillation, nuclear reactor, Neutrino, neutrino: geophysics, talk: Kolymbari 2017/08/17, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector sited underground in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). Its physics program, until the end of this year, is focussed on the study of solar neutrinos, in particular from the Beryllium, pp, pep and CNO fusion reactions. Knowing the reaction chains in the sun provides insights towards physics disciplines such as astrophysics (star physics, star formation, etc.), astroparticle and particle physics. Phase II started in 2011 and its aim is to improve the phase I results, in particular the measurements of the neutrino fluxes from the pep and CNO processes. By the end of this year, data taking from the sun will be over and a new project is scheduled to launch: Short distance Oscillation with boreXino (SOX), which uses a Cerium source for neutrinos (100÷150 kCi of activity) and aims to confirm or rule out the presence of sterile neutrinos. This particle is hypothesised to justify the reactor, Gallium and LSND anomalies found and can reject extensions to the standard model. The work presented is a summary of the solar neutrino results achieved so far, which lead not only to a precise study of the processes in the sun, but also to more Standard Model oriented measurements (such as the stability of the charge, i.e. the life time of the electron). Furthermore, the perspectives of the SOX program are discussed showing the experiment sensitivity to a fourth neutrino state covering almost entirely 3σ of the preferred region of the anomalous neutrino experiments, and additional applications of the detector such as the study of geo-neutrinos.
Published: 2017
Full Text: View/download PDF

23. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

24. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

25. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

26. Results from borexino at lngs

Author: C. Ghiano, M. S. Meyer, Caren Hagner, Aldo Ianni, G. Zuzel, P. Cavalcante, S. Appel, Paolo Lombardi, E. V. Hungerford, M. Misiaszek, S. Manecki, D. Kryn, A. Sotnikov, E. Litvinovich, O. Zaimidoroga, Marco Giammarchi, N. Rossi, B. Caccianiga, G. Bonfini, A. Razeto, Frank Calaprice, A. Pocar, I. N. Machulin, P. J. Mosteiro, M. Obolensky, D. D'Angelo, O. Smirnov, C. Galbiati, Matteo Agostini, Livia Ludhova, A. Empl, R. B. Vogelaar, S. Davini, K. Otis, D. A. Semenov, A. M. Goretti, M. Gromov, E. Meroni, E. V. Unzhakov, K. Jedrzejczak, A. Caminata, D. Franco, Marco Pallavicini, A. S. Chepurnov, F. Gabriele, R. Roncin, Lino Miramonti, Alessandra Re, M. Kaiser, A. Vishneva, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, G. Lukyanchenko, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, Denis Korablev, M. D. Skorokhvatov, R. Tartaglia, F. von Feilitzsch, L. Papp, S. Schönert, A. V. Derbin, S. Marcocci, G. Bellini, V. N. Muratova, M. M. Wojcik, G. Testera, L. Di Noto, Gioacchino Ranucci, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, 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, 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), 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: Physics, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Detector, scintillation counter: liquid, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, Physics::Geophysics, Gran Sasso, Nuclear physics, Core (optical fiber), p p, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Borexino, Nuclear Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino experiment is an ultra-pure liquid scintillator detector, running at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). Borexino has completed the real time spectroscopy of the solar neutrinos generated in the proton-proton chain in the core of the Sun. This proceedings reviews the Borexino experiment and the first direct measurement of pp solar neutrinos.
Published: 2017
Full Text: View/download PDF

27. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

28. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

29. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

30. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

31. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

32. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

33. High significance measurement of the terrestrial neutrino flux with the Borexino detector

Author: S. Appel, B. Caccianiga, I. N. Machulin, D. D'Angelo, O. Smirnov, R. B. Vogelaar, Matthias Laubenstein, B. Lehnert, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, E. Litvinovich, Denis Korablev, N. Rossi, Matteo Agostini, E. V. Unzhakov, G. Korga, S. Weinz, C. Ghiano, J. Winter, Alessandra Re, V. N. Muratova, G. Bellini, A. Caminata, Aldo Romani, Marco Pallavicini, Caren Hagner, F. Gabriele, M. Gromov, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, G. Zuzel, D. Franco, E. V. Hungerford, L. Di Noto, R. Tartaglia, Barbara Ricci, B. Neumair, K. Fomenko, E. Meroni, A. Sotnikov, K. Jedrzejczak, Aldo Ianni, G. Bonfini, S. Davini, I. S. Drachnev, W. Maneschg, A. V. Derbin, P. Cavalcante, Frank Calaprice, L. Perasso, D. Kryn, Manuel Meyer, Hardy Simgen, Jay Burton Benziger, J. Thurn, F. von Feilitzsch, Cristiano Galbiati, Fabio Mantovani, R. Roncin, M. Misiaszek, Kai Zuber, S. Schönert, Z. Yokley, Paolo Lombardi, L. Papp, Lino Miramonti, S. Manecki, Fausto Ortica, S. V. Sukhotin, D. A. Semenov, S. Marcocci, M. Toropova, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Lukyanchenko, H. Wang, A.V. Etenko, G. Testera, A. Pocar, M. Göger-Neff, K. Altenmüller, D. Bravo, Marco Giammarchi, V. V. Kobychev, Y. Suvorov, Livia Ludhova, M. Obolensky, F. Lombardi, Marcin Wójcik, Lothar Oberauer, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, A. Razeto, Gioacchino Ranucci, Giovanni Fiorentini, M. Kaiser, A. Vishneva, 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), 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), Ianni, A., 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., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Di Noto, L., Drachnev, I., Etenko, A., Fiorentini, G., Fornenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neffm, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., 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., Mantovani, F., 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., Ricci, B., Romani, A., Roncin, R., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhoting, 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, Particle physics, Solar neutrino, Flux, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, neutrino: flux, NO, Education, Nuclear physics, talk: Torino 2015/09/07, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Borexino, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Computer Science Applications, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, neutrino: geophysics, Neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; We review the geoneutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking.
Published: 2016
Full Text: View/download PDF

34. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

35. SOX : short distance neutrino oscillations with Borexino

Author: Lino Miramonti, A. Caminata, A.V. Etenko, F. Gabriele, M. Vivier, F. Lombardi, V. Fischer, G. Zuzel, D. Korablev, M. Cribier, P. J. Mosteiro, S. Gazzana, Hui Wang, B. Lehnert, G. Bellini, M. Montuschi, Aldo Romani, Laura Cadonati, R. Tartaglia, G. Bonfini, J. Winter, N. Berton, S. Marcocci, L. Di Noto, Michael Meyer, J. Gaffiot, L. Papp, Matteo Agostini, D. Franco, S. Farinon, Frank Calaprice, Kai Zuber, Lothar Oberauer, L. Scola, M. Göger-Neff, A. Razeto, Hardy Simgen, D. Bravo-Berguño, E. V. Hungerford, Fausto Ortica, Matthias Laubenstein, W. Maneschg, V. N. Muratova, S. Schönert, A. Sotnikov, Aldo Ianni, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, Gioacchino Ranucci, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, L. Grandi, R. B. Vogelaar, Alessandra Re, Andrea Ianni, C. Salvo, Livia Ludhova, E. Meroni, R. Saldanha, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, K. Fomenko, Q. Meindl, F. von Feilitzsch, A. V. Derbin, Thierry Lasserre, C. Veyssiere, M. Durero, G. Testera, Cristiano Galbiati, Marco Giammarchi, S. Davini, N. Rossi, R. Musenich, N. Jonquères, J. Maricic, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, I. N. Machulin, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Y. Suvorov, T. Lewke, D. Kryn, Jonathan M. Link, O. Smirnov, G. Korga, S. Manecki, K. Otis, B. Caccianiga, C. Ghiano, Anton Empl, Caren Hagner, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, K. Althenmüller, A. Pocar, M. Obolensky, Marcin Wójcik, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, G. Lukyanchenko, V. V. Kobychev, Paolo Lombardi, Jay Burton Benziger, 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), SOX, 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, 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), Bravo-Berguño, D., Suvorov, Y., Et, Al., Bureau de Conception Calculs et Réalisations (BCCR), Service d'Etudes Mécaniques et Thermiques (SEMT), Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), 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)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Sterile neutrino, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, scintillation counter: liquid, talk: Valencia 2014/07/02, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics], [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Borexino, gallium, Physics, Oscillation, neutrino: sterile, solar, cerium, chromium, chromium-51, neutrino: geophysics, Neutrino, performance, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Anomalous oscillations, Cerium-144, Chromium-51, SOX, Sterile neutrinos, anomaly, neutrino/e: beam, Scintillator, cerium-144, MiniBooNE, sterile neutrinos, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, chromium-51cerium-144, calibration, Gran Sasso, LSND, Anomalous oscillation, neutrino: family, High Energy Physics::Experiment, nuclear reactor, neutrino: oscillation, Anomaly (physics), anomalous oscillations, experimental results, neutrino/e: oscillation
Abstract: The Borexino detector has convincingly shown its outstanding performance in the in the sub-MeV regime through its unprecedented accomplishments in the solar and geo-neutrinos detection, which make it the ideal tool to unambiguously test the long-standing issue of the existence of a sterile neutrino, as suggested by several anomalies: the outputs of the LSND and Miniboone experiments, the results of the source calibration of the two Gallium solar ν experiments, and the recently hinted reactor anomaly. The SOX project will exploit two sources, based on chromium and cerium, which deployed under the experiment will emit two intense beams of ν e (Cr) and ν e ‾ (Ce). Interacting in the active volume of the liquid scintillator, each beam would create a spatial wave pattern in case of oscillation of the ν e (or ν e ‾ ) into the sterile state, which would be the smoking gun proving the existence of the new sterile member of the neutrino family. Otherwise, its absence will allow setting very stringent limit on its existence.
Published: 2016
Full Text: View/download PDF

36. The search for sterile neutrinos with SOX-Borexino

Author: Denis Korablev, Matthias Laubenstein, L. Papp, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, G. Testera, S. V. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, A. V. Derbin, Livia Ludhova, O. Smirnov, Fausto Ortica, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, S. Farinon, Cristiano Galbiati, O. Zaimidoroga, N. Berton, L. Scola, E. V. Unzhakov, V. V. Kobychev, Matteo Agostini, S. Marcocci, Thierry Lasserre, E. Meroni, D. A. Semenov, M. Toropova, D. Kryn, I. S. Drachnev, I. N. Machulin, C. Ghiano, Caren Hagner, Z. Yokley, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Göger-Neff, K. Altenmüller, A. Empl, R. Tartaglia, Michele Montuschi, Marco Pallavicini, P. Cavalcante, M. Vivier, Kai Zuber, Marcin Wójcik, D. D'Angelo, Manuel Meyer, B. Neumair, Gioacchino Ranucci, M. Misiaszek, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, W. Maneschg, Paolo Lombardi, F. Lombardi, Aldo Ianni, E. Litvinovich, M. Obolensky, A. Razeto, G. Bonfini, G. Mention, N. Rossi, Lothar Oberauer, N. Jonqures, G. Bellini, S. Appel, C. Veyssiere, Tobias Lachenmaier, Marco Giammarchi, S. Davini, R. Musenich, V. Fischer, V. N. Muratova, B. Lehnert, Frank Calaprice, F. von Feilitzsch, A. Pocar, M. Kaiser, Hardy Simgen, A. Caminata, Hongwei Wang, F. Gabriele, M. Gromov, Alessandra Re, T. Houdy, M. Durero, M. Cribier, J. Winter, L. Pagani, G. Lukyanchenko, J. M. Link, D. Franco, Lino Miramonti, G. Zuzel, E. V. Hungerford, B. Caccianiga, A. Sotnikov, J. Gaffiot, L. Perasso, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, J. Maricic, S. Schönert, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Aldo Romani, L. Di Noto, 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, 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), Bureau de Conception Calculs et Réalisations (BCCR), Service d'Etudes Mécaniques et Thermiques (SEMT), Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), 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)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département de Modélisation des Systèmes et Structures (DM2S), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), 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), Altenmueller, K., Agostini, M., Appel, S., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Berton, N., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chepurnov, A., 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, Th., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Jonqures, N., Kaiser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Lachenmaier, T., Lasserre, T., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Link, J., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Maricic, J., Mention, G., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Muratova, V., Musenich, R., Neumair, B., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Roncin, R., Romani, A., Rossi, N., Schoenert, S., Scola, L., Semenov, D., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Toropova, M., Unzhakov, E., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., 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 de Paris (UP)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, data acquisition, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], particle physic, 01 natural sciences, sterile neutrinos, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, calorimeter, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], particle physics, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, Astroparticle physics, Physics, insulation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, shielding, astroparticle physic, semileptonic decay, neutrino: sterile, antineutrino, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, praseodymium, Gran Sasso, astroparticle physics, cerium, sterile neutrino, neutrino: oscillation, proposed experiment, and Optics, Neutrino, Electron neutrino, signature
Abstract: International audience; The aim of the SOX-Borexino project is to verify or falsify the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. The existence of sterile neutrinos is suspected because of several anomalies, which were observed in previous experiments. A ~3.7 PBq electron antineutrino source made of$^{144}$Ce will be installed below the Borexino detector at LNGS, Italy, to search for short-baseline oscillations of active-to-sterile neutrinos within the detector volume. Source delivery and beginning of data acquisition is planned for end of 2016, preliminary results are expected already in 2017.
Published: 2016
Full Text: View/download PDF

37. Short distance neutrino oscillations with Borexino

Author: L. Papp, M. Cribier, O. Smirnov, Fausto Ortica, Lino Miramonti, Alessandra Re, E. Litvinovich, G. Mention, V. Fischer, Gioacchino Ranucci, N. Rossi, S. Farinon, G. Bellini, R. Tartaglia, I. N. Machulin, Hui Wang, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, F. von Feilitzsch, S. Schönert, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Winter, S. V. Sukhotin, M. Vivier, A. Caminata, N. Berton, Anton Empl, F. Gabriele, Y. Suvorov, Cristiano Galbiati, O. Zaimidoroga, Livia Ludhova, D. Franco, Matteo Agostini, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, C. Ghiano, V. N. Muratova, V. V. Kobychev, Caren Hagner, A. Pocar, G. Bonfini, L. Perasso, J. Maricic, Aldo Ianni, W. Maneschg, Kai Zuber, Aldo Romani, Denis Korablev, Frank Calaprice, S. Appel, Hardy Simgen, M. Obolensky, S. Davini, B. Neumair, P. Cavalcante, J. Gaffiot, B. Lehnert, L. Di Noto, Matthias Laubenstein, Michael Meyer, A.V. Etenko, K. Fomenko, M. Misiaszek, M. Göger-Neff, K. Altenmüller, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, D. Bravo, D. Kryn, Jonathan M. Link, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. D. Skorokhvatov, G. Korga, Michael Wurm, Marcin Wójcik, B. Caccianiga, C. Veyssiere, L. Scola, Tobias Lachenmaier, E. Meroni, Marco Giammarchi, G. Testera, Paolo Lombardi, Michele Montuschi, A. V. Derbin, M. Durero, Lothar Oberauer, Thierry Lasserre, G. Zuzel, E. V. Hungerford, S. Marcocci, A. Sotnikov, Jay Burton Benziger, G. Lukyanchenko, M. Kaiser, F. Lombardi, A. Razeto, R. Musenich, N. Jonquères, M. Gromov, T. Houdy, 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)), 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, 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), 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: Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Solar neutrino, scintillation counter: liquid, anomaly, neutrino: beam, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, MiniBooNE, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, energy: low, Physics, gallium, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, antineutrino: beam, Detector, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, talk: Noto 2014/09/30, neutrino: sterile, calibration, neutrino: nuclear reactor, cerium, LSND, radioactivity, High Energy Physics::Experiment, neutrino: family, chromium, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino, Anomaly (physics), performance, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; The Borexino detector has convincingly shown its outstanding performances in the low energy, sub-MeV regime through its unprecedented accomplishments in the solar and geo-neutrinos detection. These performances make it the ideal tool to accomplish a state-of-the-art experiment able to test unambiguously the long-standing issue of the existence of a sterile neutrino, as suggested by the several anomalous results accumulated over the past two decades, i.e. the outputs of the LSND and Miniboone experiments, the results of the source calibration of the two Gallium solar neutrino experiments, and the recently hinted reactor anomaly. The SOX project will exploit two sources, based on Chromium and Cerium, respectively, which deployed under the experiment, in a location foreseen on purpose at the time of the construction of the detector, will emit two intense beams of neutrinos (Cr) and anti-neutrinos (Ce). Interacting in the active volume of the liquid scintillator, each beam would create an unmistakable spatial wave pattern in case of oscillation of the nu_e (or nu̅_e) into the sterile state: such a pattern would be the smoking gun proving the existence of the new sterile member of the neutrino family. Otherwise, its absence will allow setting a very stringent limit on its existence.
Published: 2016
Full Text: View/download PDF

38. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

39. The nylon scintillator containment vessels for the Borexino solar neutrino experiment

Author: R. Fernholz, F. Loeser, Cristiano Galbiati, A. Pocar, An. Ianni, E. de Haas, S. Kidner, R. Parsells, R. J. Ford, A. M. Goretti, Jay Burton Benziger, Aldo Ianni, Frank Calaprice, Laura Cadonati, E. Harding, R. B. Vogelaar, Andrew Sonnenschein, Mei-Kei Leung, K. McCarty, A. Nelson, and T. A. Shutt
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Scintillation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Recoil, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Electromagnetic shielding, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Borexino
Abstract: Borexino is a solar neutrino experiment designed to observe the 0.86 MeV Be 7 neutrinos emitted in the pp cycle of the sun. Neutrinos will be detected by their elastic scattering on electrons in 100 ton of liquid scintillator. The neutrino event rate in the scintillator is expected to be low ( ∼ 0.35 events per day per ton), and the signals will be at energies below 1.5 MeV, where background from natural radioactivity is prominent. Scintillation light produced by the recoil electrons is observed by an array of 2240 photomultiplier tubes. Because of the intrinsic radioactive contaminants in these PMTs, the liquid scintillator is shielded from them by a thick barrier of buffer fluid. A spherical vessel made of thin nylon film contains the scintillator, separating it from the surrounding buffer. The buffer region itself is divided into two concentric shells by a second nylon vessel in order to prevent inward diffusion of radon atoms. The radioactive background requirements for Borexino are challenging to meet, especially for the scintillator and these nylon vessels. Besides meeting requirements for low radioactivity, the nylon vessels must also satisfy requirements for mechanical, optical, and chemical properties. The present paper describes the research and development, construction, and installation of the nylon vessels for the Borexino experiment.
Published: 2007
Full Text: View/download PDF

40. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

41. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

42. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

43. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

44. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

45. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

46. Solar neutrino with Borexino: Results and perspectives

Author: K. Fomenko, Lino Miramonti, F. von Feilitzsch, Fabio Mantovani, Hui Wang, L. Papp, Fausto Ortica, G. Bellini, D. Franco, Cristiano Galbiati, O. Smirnov, R. Tartaglia, I. N. Machulin, D. Kryn, C. Ghiano, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, Caren Hagner, Marco Pallavicini, G. Zuzel, D. D'Angelo, Barbara Ricci, S. V. Sukhotin, K. Otis, Aldo Romani, B. Lehnert, G. Testera, E. V. Hungerford, C. Salvo, P. Cavalcante, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. Sotnikov, Denis Korablev, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, M. Obolensky, M. Misiaszek, G. Lukyanchenko, Lothar Oberauer, D. Vignaud, M. Göger-Neff, P. J. Mosteiro, G. Korga, S. Gazzana, Matthias Laubenstein, Y. Suvorov, B. Caccianiga, Livia Ludhova, R. Saldanha, M. D. Skorokhvatov, G. Bonfini, Michael Wurm, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, V. N. Muratova, Frank Calaprice, A. Pocar, E. Meroni, V. V. Kobychev, S. Davini, J. Winter, S. Marcocci, Hardy Simgen, Marco Giammarchi, F. Lombardi, A. E. Chavarria, Q. Meindl, A. Razeto, L. Perasso, S. Schönert, A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, Marcin Wójcik, Giovanni Fiorentini, Manuel Meyer, Alessandra Re, A. V. Derbin, Paolo Lombardi, A. Empl, Kai Zuber, R. B. Vogelaar, A. Caminata, Jay Burton Benziger, Aldo Ianni, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, Smirnov, O., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chavarria, A., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Empl, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Fiorentini, G., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Mantovani, F., Marcocci, S., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Otis, K., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Ricci, B., Romani, A., Rossi, N., Saldanha, R., Salvo, C., Schoenert, S., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vignaud, D., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wright, A., Wurm, M., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuber, K., Zuzel, G., 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), 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)), 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), departement de physique, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica [Minas Gerais] (DEE - UFMG), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), 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), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), 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), 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), 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), and Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO)
Subjects: Sterile neutrino, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Scintillator, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino oscillation, DETECTOR, Borexino, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Detector, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 13. Climate action, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Borexino is a unique detector able to perform measurement of solar neutrinos fluxes in the energy region around 1 MeV or below due to its low level of radioactive background. It was constructed at the LNGS underground laboratory with a goal of solar $^{7}$Be neutrino flux measurement with 5\% precision. The goal has been successfully achieved marking the end of the first stage of the experiment. A number of other important measurements of solar neutrino fluxes have been performed during the first stage. Recently the collaboration conducted successful liquid scintillator repurification campaign aiming to reduce main contaminants in the sub-MeV energy range. With the new levels of radiopurity Borexino can improve existing and challenge a number of new measurements including: improvement of the results on the Solar and terrestrial neutrino fluxes measurements; measurement of pp and CNO solar neutrino fluxes; search for non-standard interactions of neutrino; study of the neutrino oscillations on the short baseline with an artificial neutrino source (search for sterile neutrino) in context of SOX project., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2015
Full Text: View/download PDF

47. Short Distance Neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino: SOX

Author: A.V. Etenko, D. Bravo, E. V. Hungerford, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, E. Litvinovich, D. Vignaud, N. Rossi, A. Sotnikov, Y. Suvorov, V. V. Kobychev, G. Bonfini, Livia Ludhova, Frank Calaprice, R. Tartaglia, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, Hardy Simgen, J. Winter, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, M. Göger-Neff, Hui Wang, Denis Korablev, R. B. Vogelaar, V. N. Muratova, Matthias Laubenstein, A. V. Derbin, A. Empl, S. Gazzana, M. Obolensky, T. Lewke, Kai Zuber, D. Kryn, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Franco, A. E. Chavarria, W. Maneschg, P. J. Mosteiro, L. Perasso, S. Schönert, G. Korga, G. Lukyanchenko, L. Papp, E. Meroni, Gioacchino Ranucci, Alessandra Re, B. Caccianiga, C. Ghiano, G. Testera, Caren Hagner, A. Caminata, Aldo Romani, Cristiano Galbiati, Fausto Ortica, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Aldo Ianni, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Davini, P. Cavalcante, G. Bellini, Marco Giammarchi, F. Lombardi, Lothar Oberauer, G. Zuzel, Q. Meindl, M. Misiaszek, Jay Burton Benziger, A. Razeto, S. Marcocci, I. N. Machulin, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Manuel Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, K. Fomenko, Lino Miramonti, B. Lehnert, S. Manecki, A. Pocar, Marcin Wójcik, O. Smirnov, K. Otis, 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), 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), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Dip. di Fisica dell'Università di Genova - Italy, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica [Minas Gerais] (DEE - UFMG), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Safran Engineering Services (SES), SAFRAN (FRANCE), 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), 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), Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa (UniGe), and Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO)
Subjects: Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, neutrino oscillations, Physics and Astronomy(all), 7. Clean energy, Physics::Geophysics, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), ddc:530, sterile neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Borexino, a large volume liquid scintillator detector installed at Gran Sasso laboratory, demonstrated extraordinary sensitivity with respect to neutrino and antineutrino detection, reporting the best up to date results on low energy solar neutrino fluxes and performing geo-neutrino detection. Energy and position of 1 MeV events in Borexino are recon- structed with a precision of 5% and 14 cm respectively. These performances together with extremely low background provides an excellent opportunity for the study of short distance neutrino oscillations on the eV mass scale with artificial neutrino sources. The possible layouts for 51Cr (monoenergetic neutrino) and 144Ce–144Pr (antineutrino from β-decay) source experiments in Borexino and the expected sensitivity to sterile neutrinos for three possible designs of the experiment are presented.
Published: 2015
Full Text: View/download PDF

48. 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
Full Text: View/download PDF

49. Neutrino measurements from the Sun and Earth : results from Borexino

Author: I. N. Machulin, M. S. Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, E. Litvinovich, N. Rossi, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, C. Ghiano, R. Tartaglia, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Wright, O. Zaimidoroga, H. Wang, D. D'Angelo, G. Testera, Laura Cadonati, V. V. Kobychev, L. Papp, F. Lombardi, Caren Hagner, M. Obolensky, A. Razeto, Fausto Ortica, R. Saldanha, R. B. Vogelaar, P. Cavalcante, A. Empl, Denis Korablev, S. Manecki, Kai Zuber, Gioacchino Ranucci, A. M. Goretti, Marco Giammarchi, D. Kryn, F. von Feilitzsch, C. Salvo, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, M. Misiaszek, G. Lukyanchenko, T. Lewke, W. Maneschg, V. N. Muratova, Lothar Oberauer, Alessandra Re, S. Davini, Matthias Laubenstein, A.V. Etenko, Aldo Romani, M. Gromov, C. Galbiati, D. Bravo, G. Bonfini, S. Gazzana, Livia Ludhova, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Aldo Ianni, A. S. Chepurnov, Frank Calaprice, B. Caccianiga, S. Schönert, Hardy Simgen, E. Meroni, Q. Meindl, Y. Suvorov, D. Franco, Andrea Ianni, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, A. E. Chavarria, L. Perasso, Jay Burton Benziger, Marcin Wójcik, O. Smirnov, K. Otis, J. Winter, A. Pocar, A. V. Derbin, E. V. Hungerford, A. Sotnikov, G. Zuzel, S. Marcocci, B. Lehnert, A. Caminata, Marco Pallavicini, F. Gabriele, M. Göger-Neff, G. Bellini, Lino Miramonti, and D. Vignaud
Subjects: Physics, CNO cycle, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, neutrino interactions, Solar neutrinos, neutrinos, Solar neutrino problem, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), remote sensing, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Earth's interior, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Borexino
Abstract: Important neutrino results came recently from Borexino, a massive, calorimetric liquid scintillator detector installed at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. With its unprecedented radiopurity levels achieved in the core of the detection medium, it is the only experiment in operation able to study in real time solar neutrino interactions in the challenging sub-MeV energy region. The recently achieved breakthrough observation of the fundamental pp flux, the precise measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino flux, and the results concerning the pep, 8B and CNO fluxes, together with their physics implications, are described in this work. Moreover, the detector has also provided a clean detection of terrestrial neutrinos, from which they emerge as a new probe of the interior of the Earth.
Published: 2015

50. First real–time detection of solar pp neutrinos by Borexino

Author: R. Tartaglia, J. Winter, Alessandra Re, W. Maneschg, A. Caminata, An. Ianni, L. Papp, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, A. E. Chavarria, Denis Korablev, Kai Zuber, Marcin Wójcik, V. N. Muratova, L. Perasso, E. V. Hungerford, Fausto Ortica, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Obolensky, A. V. Derbin, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, B. Lehnert, Matthias Laubenstein, K. Otis, T. Lewke, D. Kryn, P. J. Mosteiro, Michele Montuschi, S. Schönert, C. Ghiano, C. Salvo, S. Davini, Hui Wang, G. Testera, F. Lombardi, Cristiano Galbiati, Anton Empl, A.V. Etenko, Y. Suvorov, A. Razeto, D. Bick, Sandra Zavatarelli, S. Marcocci, E. Litvinovich, Gioacchino Ranucci, Livia Ludhova, D. Bravo, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, N. Rossi, D. Franco, E. Meroni, A. Pocar, R. Saldanha, Al. Ianni, D. Vignaud, S. V. Sukhotin, Marco Giammarchi, F. Gabriele, O. Zaimidoroga, M. Gromov, Lothar Oberauer, G. Zuzel, V. V. Kobychev, S. Manecki, M. Göger-Neff, Jay Burton Benziger, Manuel Meyer, Paolo Lombardi, S. Gazzana, G. Korga, K. Fomenko, G. Lukyanchenko, B. Caccianiga, I. N. Machulin, Aldo Romani, Marco Pallavicini, D. D'Angelo, Q. Meindl, M. Kayser, F. von Feilitzsch, G. Bellini, G. Bonfini, Frank Calaprice, Lino Miramonti, Caren Hagner, P. Cavalcante, M. Misiaszek, Hardy Simgen, 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), 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), Pallavicini, M., Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bick, D., Bonfini, G., Bravo, D., Caccianiga, B., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Cavalcante, P., Chavarria, A., Chepurnov, A., D'Angelo, D., Davini, S., Derbin, A., Empl, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Gabriele, F., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Gromov, M., Hagner, C., Hungerford, E., Ianni, Al., Ianni, An., Kayser, M., Kobychev, V., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Lombardi, F., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Lukyanchenko, G., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Marcocci, S., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Meyer, M., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montuschi, M., Mosteiro, P., Muratova, V., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Otis, K., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Pocar, A., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Romani, A., Rossi, N., 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., von Feilitzsch, F., Wang, H., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wurm, M., 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: deuteron, Particle physics, neutrino: solar, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, scintillation counter: liquid, gap, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, flavor: oscillation, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Borexino, Physics, ICARUS, p p: fusion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, talk: Noto 2014/09/30, Solar neutrino problem, Gran Sasso, Neutrino detector, neutrino: flavor, Measurements of neutrino speed, COUNTING TEST FACILITY, High Energy Physics::Experiment, direct detection, neutrino: oscillation, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, experimental results, neutrino: luminosity
Abstract: International audience; Solar neutrinos have been pivotal to the discovery of neutrino flavour oscillations and are a unique tool to probe the reactions that keep the Sun shine. Although most of solar neutrino components have been directly measured, the neutrinos emitted by the keystone pp reaction, in which two protons fuse to make a deuteron, have so far eluded direct detection. The Borexino experiment, an ultra-pure liquid scintillator detector running at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, has now filled the gap, providing the first direct real time measurement of pp neutrinos and of the solar neutrino luminosity.
Published: 2014
Full Text: View/download PDF

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources

See catalog results

Searchworks

Select search scope, currently: Articles Catalog books, media & more in Jio Institute collections Articles journal articles & other e-resources

Search

Search Constraints

Refine your results

Search Limiters

Topic

Publication Year Range

Language

Journal

Database

Publisher

85 results on '"R. B. Vogelaar"'

Search Results

Catalog

Select search scope, currently: Articles

Catalog

books, media & more in Jio Institute collections

Articles

journal articles & other e-resources