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  • From: Zoltan Mate <mate AT atomki.mta.hu>
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  • Subject: [Fizinfo] Atomki-szeminárium
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:32:23 +0100 (CET)
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Az MTA Atommagkutató Intézetének előadótermében
(Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c. 12. ép. III. em.)
2012. december 18-án, KEDDEN 11:00-kor


Marco PALLAVICINI
(Universitá di Genova & INFN)

The Borexino experiment


címmel előadást tart.

Az előadás előtt 10:30-tól tea, vendégeket szívesen látunk.


Máté Zoltán


Kivonat:

The Borexino experiment has been designed and built with the aim of
measuring low energy solar neutrinos with an ultrapure scintillator
detector. The data taking has begun on May 2007, and since then some
important results have been achieved: the precision measurement of the
Be-7 neutrinos, the low threshold measurement of B-8 neutrinos, a clear
signal of geo-neutrinos and, recently, the first observation of pep
neutrinos. Other important results on rare events search were also
obtained. The physics program, however, is by no means over. The excellent
radio-purity of the detector offers the possibility of detecting other
solar neutrino components like the pp neutrinos and, most important, the
CNO neutrinos. The direct observation of the latter would have important
consequence in stellar astrophysics and in solar physics.

The Borexino detector will also be used for another fundamental physics
experiment. A new project, called SOX (Short distance neutrino
Oscillations with BoreXino) will search for sterile neutrinos or other
short distance new physics by means of an artificial neutrino source
located beneath the Borexino detector at 8.5 m from the center. This
experiment was recently financed by the European Community (ERC Advanced
Grant) and will be performed in the next five years. A great opportunity
for new groups who would like to join the effort.

Last but not least, other R&D projects are in progress for the use of
Borexino in the future. One option that is throughly under investigation
is the possibility for a very large and very sensitive double beta decay
experiment made with Xenon 136 dissolved in the liquid scintillator.


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