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Geo-neutrino results with Borexino
B. LehnertL. PappA.v. EtenkoG. BonfiniA. CaminataFausto OrticaMarco PallaviciniF. GabrieleY. SuvorovY. SuvorovI. N. MachulinI. N. MachulinD. BravoLivia LudhovaD. D'angeloS. WeinzA. M. GorettiFrank CalapriceA. S. ChepurnovM. D. SkorokhvatovM. D. SkorokhvatovHardy SimgenMichael WurmMatthias LaubensteinP. J. MosteiroMichele MontuschiS. SchönertO. SmirnovF. Von FeilitzschE. LitvinovichE. LitvinovichDenis KorablevD. A. SemenovF. LombardiM. S. MeyerN. RossiE. V. HungerfordMarco GiammarchiA. RazetoE. V. UnzhakovC. GhianoS. AppelAndrea IanniD. BickSandra ZavatarelliA. SotnikovCaren HagnerR RoncinR RoncinE. MeroniK. JedrzejczakR. B. VogelaarKai ZuberJ. WinterLino MiramontiPaolo LombardiP. CavalcanteR. TartagliaMatteo AgostiniA. V. DerbinZ. YokleyD. FrancoB. NeumairM. MisiaszekI. S. DrachnevS. V. SukhotinB. CaccianigaG. KorgaK. FomenkoJay Burton BenzigerMarcin WójcikAldo RomaniO. ZaimidorogaG. TesteraH. WangL. Di NotoW. ManeschgL. PerassoG. ZuzelM. Goeger-neffGioacchino RanucciG. BelliniLothar OberauerV. V. KobychevAldo IanniM. GromovM. ObolenskyG. LukyanchenkoG. LukyanchenkoV. N. MuratovaA. PocarD. KrynS. ManeckiM. KaiserJ. ThurnCristiano GalbiatiAlessandra ReS. DaviniA. VishnevaS. MarcocciM. Toropovasubject
History010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesSolar neutrinoscintillation counter: liquidchemistry.chemical_elementScintillator010502 geochemistry & geophysics7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesthoriumEducationuraniumNuclear physicsPhysics and Astronomy (all)background: low[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]ddc:530[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]Borexino0105 earth and related environmental sciencesPhysicsRadionuclideRadiogenic nuclideThoriumMass rationuclide: mass ratioComputer Science Applicationschemistry13. Climate actionradioactivityBorexinoGEOPHYSICSneutrino: geophysicsNeutrinoexperimental resultsdescription
International audience; Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector primary designed to observe solar neutrinos. Due to its low background level as well as its position in a nuclear free country, Italy, Borexino is also sensitive to geo-neutrinos. Borexino is leading this interdisciplinary field of neutrino geoscience by studying electron antineutrinos which are emitted from the decay of radioactive isotopes present in the crust and the mantle of the Earth. With 2056 days of data taken between December 2007 and March 2015, Borexino observed 77 antineutrino candidates. If we assume a chondritic Th/U mass ratio of 3.9, the number of geo-neutrino events is found to be 23.7(+6.5) (-5.7)(stat) (+0.9)(-0.6) (syst). With this measurement, Borexino alone is able to reject the null geo-neutrino signal at 5.9σ, to claim a geo-neutrino signal from the mantle at 98% C.L. and to restrict the radiogenic heat production for U and Th between 23 and 36 TW.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-05 | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |