1. The study of solar neutrinos and of non-standard neutrino interactions with Borexino
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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
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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.
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- 2020
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