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New experimental limits on violations of the Pauli exclusion principle obtained with the Borexino Counting Test Facility
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Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in BOREXINO
Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in BOREXINO. New low-level detection limits for isotopes of interest are obtained.
Search for electron decay mode e –› γ + ν with prototype of Borexino detector
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Science and technology of Borexino: a real-time detector for low energy solar neutrinos
The design of Borexino, the various facilities essential to its operation, its spectroscopic and background suppression capabilities and a prognosis of the impact of its results towards resolving the solar neutrino problem. Borexino will also address several other frontier questions in particle physics, astrophysics and geophysics.
Light propagation in a large volume liquid scintillator
Fluorescence light propagation in a large volume liquid scintillators detector. Effects of the fluor and solvent. Rayleigh scattering. Comparison of model vs. data in Borexino prototype (CTF).
A large-scale low-background liquid scintillation detector: the Counting Test Facility at Gran Sasso
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CTF achieved records in the domain of ultra-low background, large volume detectors. These encouraging results point towards the feasibility of detectors like Borexino.