Borexino – Borexino Experiment Official Web Site
Borexino got the first experimental evidence of neutrinos emitted by the CNO cycle in the Sun core.
Catching Some Rays | NSF - National Science Foundation
Aug 20, 2007 · The 18-meter (59-foot) diameter Borexino detector lies more than a kilometer (almost a mile) underground in one of the planet's deepest laboratories. The depth blocks out cosmic rays and other radiation sources that could create additional background signals.
Borexino: a Real Time Detector for Low Energy Neutrinos
The Borexino detector was a large, low background, liquid scintillator detector designed to reveal low energy (sub-MeV) neutrinos in real time. It was built with the main goals of performing solar neutrinos spectroscopy and to measure the 7 Be neutrino flux from the Sun.
Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun’s …
Dec 1, 2020 · The Borexino detector, a hyper-sensitive instrument deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO (carbon-nitrogen-oxygen) neutrinos from our sun’s core.
Borexino - LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Borexino is one of the most advanced neutrino real time detectors and it works by exploiting an extremely intense source of neutrinos: our Solar System star, the Sun. The Sun is essentially a self-confining highly efficient nuclear fusion reactor whose production rate is regulated by the Weak Nuclear interaction.
[1308.0443] Final results of Borexino Phase-I on low energy solar ...
Aug 2, 2013 · Abstract: Borexino has been running since May 2007 at the LNGS with the primary goal of detecting solar neutrinos. The detector, a large, unsegmented liquid scintillator calorimeter characterized by unprecedented low levels of intrinsic radioactivity, is optimized for the study of the lower energy part of the spectrum.
Mysterious Particles Shooting Through Earth Shed Light on Sun
Nov 28, 2011 · The Borexino experiment instrument uses 2,200 sensors to detect neutrinos in the exceedingly rare instances they interact with about 300 tons of a special organic liquid.
The Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Mar 11, 2009 · Borexino is a large volume liquid scintillator detector whose primary purpose is the real-time measurement of low energy solar neutrinos. It is located deep underground (≃ 3800 m of water equivalent, m w.e.) in the Hall C of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy), where the muon flux is suppressed by a factor of ≈ 10 6.
Borexino: A Scintillator Purification System for a Large Scale …
Borexino is a solar neutrino experiment designed to detect the 7Be neutrino flux by neutrino-electron scattering in a large scale liquid scintillation detector. The monoenergetic 7Be neutrino signature will appear as a step decrease in the intensity of the energy spectrum at 665 keV.
Borexino spots solar neutrinos from elusive fusion cycle
Nov 25, 2020 · Borexino comprises 278 tonne of ultrapure liquid scintillator and detects solar neutrinos when they collide with electrons in the scintillator. As the electron recoils it produces light, which is captured by an array of photomultiplier tubes.
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