Recent Borexino results and perspectives of the SOX measurement

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Abstract

Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector sited underground in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). Its physics program, until the end of this year, is focussed on the study of solar neutrinos, in particular from the Beryllium, pp, pep and CNO fusion reactions. Knowing the reaction chains in the sun provides insights towards physics disciplines such as astrophysics (star physics, star formation, etc.), astroparticle and particle physics. Phase II started in 2011 and its aim is to improve the phase I results, in particular the measurements of the neutrino fluxes from the pep and CNO processes. By the end of this year, data taking from the sun will be over and a new project is scheduled to launch: Short distance Oscillation with boreXino (SOX), which uses a Cerium source for neutrinos (100÷150 kCi of activity) and aims to confirm or rule out the presence of sterile neutrinos. This particle is hypothesised to justify the reactor, Gallium and LSND anomalies found and can reject extensions to the standard model. The work presented is a summary of the solar neutrino results achieved so far, which lead not only to a precise study of the processes in the sun, but also to more Standard Model oriented measurements (such as the stability of the charge, i.e. the life time of the electron). Furthermore, the perspectives of the SOX program are discussed showing the experiment sensitivity to a fourth neutrino state covering almost entirely 3σ of the preferred region of the anomalous neutrino experiments, and additional applications of the detector such as the study of geo-neutrinos.

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A Porcelli
M Agostini
K Altenmüller
S Appel
V Atroshchenko
Z Bagdasarian
D Basilico
G Bellini
J Benziger
D Bick
G Bonfini
D Bravo
B Caccianiga
F Calaprice
A Caminata
S Caprioli
M Carlini
P Cavalcante
A Chepurnov
K Choi
O Cloué
M Cribier
D D'Angelo
S Davini
A Derbin
XF Ding
A Di Ludovico
L Di Noto
I Drachnev
M Durero
S Farinon
V Fischer
K Fomenko
A Formozov
D Franco
F Froborg
F Gabriele
J Gaffiot
C Galbiati
C Ghiano
M Giammarchi
A Goretti
M Gromov
M Gschwender
C Hagner
T Houdy
E Hungerford
Aldo Ianni
Andrea Ianni
N Jonquères
A Jany
D Jeschke
V Kobychev
D Korablev
G Korga
V Kornoukhov
D Kryn
T Lachenmaier
T Lasserre
M Laubenstein
E Litvinovich
F Lombardi
P Lombardi
L Ludhova
G Lukyanchenko
L Lukyanchenko
I Machulin
G Manuzio
S Marcocci
J Maricic
G Mention
J Martyn
E Meroni
M Meyer
L Miramonti
M Misiaszek
V Muratova
R Musenich
B Neumair
L Oberauer
B Opitz
F Ortica
M Pallavicini
L Papp
N Pilipenko
A Pocar
G Ranucci
A Razeto
A Re
A Romani
R Roncin
N Rossi
S Rottenanger
S Schönert
M Scola
D Semenov
M Skorokhvatov
O Smirnov
A Sotnikov
LFF Stokes
Y Suvorov
R Tartaglia
G Testera
J Thurn
M Toropova
E Unzhakov
C Veyssiére
A Vishneva
M Vivier
RB Vogelaar
F von Feilitzsch
H Wang
S Weinz
M Wojcik
M Wurm
Z Yokley
O Zaimidoroga
S Zavatarelli
K Zuber
G Zuzel

DOI

10.1051/epjconf/201818202099

Editoren

Y Aharonov
L Bravina
S Kabana

eISSN

2100-014X

Zeitschrift

EPJ Web of Conferences

Online publication date

2018

Paginierung

02099 - 02099

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Herausgeber

EDP Sciences

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202099

Datum der Datenerfassung

2020

Titel

Recent Borexino results and perspectives of the SOX measurement

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

182

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