BOREXino Experiment @ LNGS


Borexino News & Milestones:

Oct 02, 2012: Measurement of CNGS muon neutrino speed with Borexino

Feb 07, 2012: PeP paper have been been highlighted with a Synopsis on the Physics website http://physics.aps.org

Feb 02, 2012: First Evidence of pep Solar Neutrinos by Direct Detection in Borexino
Jan 16, 2012: Absence of a day–night asymmetry in the 7Be solar neutrino rate in Borexino

Sep 30, 2011: Precision Measurement of the 7Be Solar Neutrino Interaction Rate in Borexino

May 11, 2011: Muon and cosmogenic neutron detection in Borexino
Jan 31, 2011: Study of solar and other unknown anti-neutrino fluxes with Borexino at LNGS
Aug 05, 2010: Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino rate (3 MeV energy threshold)

Mar 02, 2010: Italian press coverage of our Geo-Neutrino research:

"Le particelle che arrivano dal centro della Terra" from ANSA
"La prima volta dei geoneutrini" from "Galileo"
"visti per la prima volta i geoneutrini" from "PrimaDaNoi"
"Particelle dal cuore della Terra" from "Il Centro"
"Particelle dal centro della terra" from "La Repubblica"
"Primo sguardo al centro della Terra" from "Il Corriere della Sera"

Mar 01, 2010: Observation of Geo-Neutrinos

Apr 06, 2009: Dramatic earthquake hit Abruzzo
Aug 21, 2008: Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux with 246 live days of Borexino and observation of the MSW vacuum-matter transition
Jun 18, 2008: CNGS (CERN->LNGS) neutrino beam (re)started
May 25, 2008: New results on solar neutrino fluxes from 192 days of Borexino data

Press coverage on Borexino first results:

Aug 27, 2007: Borexino featured on /.
Aug 20, 2007: Borexino featured on "Le Scienze" (Italian)
Aug 20, 2007: Borexino featured on "La Repubblica" (Italian)
Aug 20, 2007: NSF Press Release 07-105: "Catching Some Rays"

Aug 16, 2007: First real time detection of 7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino!

May 16, 2007 01:25 CEST: first run with full detector started: we are taking data!
May 15, 2007 11:25 CEST: Borexino filling completed!
May 14, 2007: filling of the Water Tank have been completed
Apr 27, 2007: filling of the Inner Vessel have been completed
Apr 16, 2007: PC procurement at Sarroch have been completed
Feb 06, 2007: About 300 m³ of PC in the SSS
Jan 09, 2007: Water Tank filling has begun
Jan 08, 2007: PC delivery from Sarroch to LNGS has begun
Dec 20, 2006: First batch of scintillator (~11,000 liters) in Borexino!
Nov 10, 2006: Borexino SSS filled with water
May 07, 2004: Inner vessels installed and inflated

External link: LNGS News Center