The Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

By Borexino Collaboration G. Alimonti, et al. 2008

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Abstract Borexino, a large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy, is currently running underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The main goal of the experiment is the real-time measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos, and particularly of the monoenergetic (862 keV) 7 Be electron capture neutrinos, via neutrino–electron scattering in an ultra-pure liquid scintillator. This paper is mostly devoted to the description of the detector structure, the photomultipliers, the electronics, and the trigger and calibration systems. The real performance of the detector, which always meets, and sometimes exceeds, design expectations, is also shown. Some important aspects of the Borexino project, i.e. the fluid handling plants, the purification techniques and the filling procedures, are not covered in this paper and are, or will be, published elsewhere (see Introduction and Bibliography).

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation

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Citations in the corpus

• Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects (2012, methodology): “The Borexino experiment (Borexino Collaboration, G. Alimonti et al. 2009), located in the Gran Sasso Laboratory at an effective depth of about 3.0 km.w.e., is the first to measure low-energy (< 1 MeV) solar neutrino events in real time.”
• IceCube sensitivity for low-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae (2011, background): “Currently, Super-Kamiokande (Fukuda et al., 2002; Ikeda et al., 2007), LVD (Aglietta et al., 2002), Borexino (Alimonti et al., 2009) and IceCube (Ahrens et al., 2004) contribute to SNEWS, with a number of other neutrino and gravitational wave detectors planning to join in the near future.”