Improved Measurement of Solar Neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle by Borexino and Its Implications for the Standard Solar Model Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252701 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022 [DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.252701] This paper have been been highlighted. See Viewpoint: “Elemental
Independent determination of the Earth’s orbital parameters with solar neutrinos in Borexino
Independent determination of the Earth’s orbital parameters with solar neutrinos in Borexino Astroparticle Physics Volume 145, March 2023, 102778 ISSN 0927-6505 [doi: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102778] Data availability The datasets generated during the current study are freely available: see below (scroll down).
Search for low-energy signals from Fast Radio Bursts with the Borexino detector
Search for low-energy signals from fast radio bursts with the Borexino detector Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 278 (2022). [doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10197-0] Published 31 March 2022 Abstract The search for neutrino events in correlation with 42 most intense fast radio
Correlated and integrated directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino
Correlated and integrated directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino Phys. Rev. D 105, 052002 – Published 3 March 2022 [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.052002] This paper have been been highlighted with a synopsis: “Solar-Neutrino Detection Gets a Boost” Abstract Liquid scintillator detectors play a
First Directional Measurement of Sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino
First Directional Measurement of Sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091803 – Published 3 March 2022 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.091803] This paper have been been highlighted with a synopsis: “Solar-Neutrino Detection Gets a Boost” Abstract We report the measurement of sub-MeV
How the Sun and the Stars shine
Thanks to its extraordinary radiopurity, Borexino observed the two main fusion reactions in stars and will soon weigh in on a controversy relating to the birth of the Sun that challenges the SSM (G.Bellini & A.Ianni on CERN Courier)
Geoneutrinos and geoscience: an intriguing joint-venture
Geoneutrinos: production, propagation, and detection. Experimental and technological features of Borexino and KamLAND.
Identification of the cosmogenic 11C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino
Identification of the cosmogenic 11C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 1075 (2021). [doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09799-x] Published 07 December 2021 (preprint on arXiv) Abstract Cosmogenic radio-nuclei are an important source of background for low-energy
Borexino Results on Neutrinos from the Sun and Earth
Borexino Results on Neutrinos from the Sun and Earth S. Kumaran, L. Ludhova, Ö. Penek, G. Settanta Universe 2021, 7(7), 231 – Published: 6 July 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics) doi: 10.3390/universe7070231
Science and Technology in very low energy neutrinos physics with Borexino
The study of very low energy neutrinos requires a suppression of the natural radioactivity. This is what Borexino succeeded to achieve.
Thesis
Jason Xavier Prochaska Senior Thesis. Princeton University, 1993 Michael Clinton Johnson PhD Thesis. Princeton University, 1998 Cristiano Galbiati PhD Thesis. University of Milano, 1999 Aldo Ianni PhD Thesis (Italian language). University of L’Aquila, 1999 Laura Cadonati PhD Thesis. Princeton University, 2000
Why and how the Sun and the stars shine
Borexino revealed for the first time the mechanisms powering the Sun and the other stars. In this article Prof. em. Gianpaolo Bellini describes the experiment and recollects its history and achievements (Il Nuovo Saggiatore Vol. 36, Anno 2020, No. 5-6, Pag. 82).
Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino
Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 1091 (2020) [doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08534-2] published 26 November 2020 This paper have been been highlighted on EPJ C Highlight, Springer Research News and Europhysics News (“Detecting solar
Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun (Nature cover)
Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun Nature volume 587, pages 577-582 (2020) published 25 November 2020 [doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2934-0] (full text here) Data availability The datasets generated during the current study are freely available: see
Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino
Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino Astroparticle Physics Volume 125, February 2021, 102509 [DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2020.102509] (Submitted 1 October 2019, Accepted 29 August 2020, Available online 1 September 2020) Abstract We report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos
Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt ⋅ y of Borexino exposure
Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt⋅y of Borexino exposure M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration) Phys. Rev. D 101, 062001 – Published 6 March 2020 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.062001]
Constraints on flavor-diagonal non-standard neutrino interactions from Borexino Phase-II
Constraints on flavor-diagonal non-standard neutrino interactions from Borexino Phase-II The Borexino CollaborationJournal of High Energy Physics 2020, 38 – Published 5 February 2020 [doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2020)038] (preprint on arXiv) Data availability The datasets generated during the current study are freely available: see below
Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino
Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino Phys. Rev. D 101, 012009 – Published 21 January 2020 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.012009] (preprint on arXiv). This paper have been been highlighted with a synopsis: “Earth As a Neutrino Source”. Data availability The datasets generated during the
Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, 7Be and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II
Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, 7Be and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II Phys. Rev. D 100, Issue 8 , 082004 – 15 October 2019 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.082004] Abstract We present the simultaneous measurement of the interaction rates pp, RBe, Rpep of pp, 7Be, and pep solar neutrinos performed with a global fit to the
Modulations of the cosmic muon signal in ten years of Borexino data
Modulations of the cosmic muon signal in ten years of Borexino data JCAP Volume 2019, February 22, 2019 [doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/046] (Open Access)