Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future
Abstract
The Borexino experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is an organic liquid scintillator detector conceived for the real time spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos. The data taking campaign phase I (2007 - 2010) has allowed the first independent measurements of 7Be, 8B and pep fluxes as well as the first measurement of anti-neutrinos from the earth. After a purification of the scintillator, Borexino is now in phase II since 2011. We review here the recent results achieved during 2013, concerning the seasonal modulation in the 7Be signal, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds and the updated measurement of geo-neutrinos. We also review the upcoming measurements from phase II data (pp, pep, CNO) and the project SOX devoted to the study of sterile neutrinos via the use of a 51Cr neutrino source and a 144Ce-144Pr antineutrino source placed in close proximity of the active material.
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@article{arxiv.1405.7919,
title = {Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future},
author = {D. D'Angelo and G. Bellini and J. Benziger and D. Bick and G. Bonfini and M. Buizza Avanzini and B. Caccianiga and L. Cadonati and F. Calaprice and P. Cavalcante and A. Chavarria and A. Chepurnov and S. Davini and A. Derbin and A. Empl and A. Etenko and F. von Feilitzsch and K. Fomenko and D. Franco and C. Galbiati and S. Gazzana and C. Ghiano and M. Giammarchi and M. Goeger-Neff and A. Goretti and L. Grandi and C. Hagner and E. Hungerford and Aldo Ianni and Andrea Ianni and V. Kobychev and D. Korablev and G. Korga and D. Kryn and M. Laubenstein and B. Lehnert and T. Lewke and E. Litvinovich and F. Lombardi and P. Lombardi and L. Ludhova and G. Lukyanchenko and I. Machulin and S. Manecki and W. Maneschg and G. Manuzio and Q. Meindl and E. Meroni and L. Miramonti and M. Misiaszek and P. Mosteiro and V. Muratova and L. Oberauer and M. Obolensky and F. Ortica and K. Otis and M. Pallavicini and L. Papp and L. Perasso and S. Perasso and A. Pocar and G. Ranucci and A. Razeto and A. Re and A. Romani and N. Rossi and R. Saldanha and C. Salvo and S. Schoenert and H. Simgen and M. Skorokhvatov and O. Smirnov and A. Sotnikov and S. Sukhotin and Y. Suvorov and R. Tartaglia and G. Testera and D. Vignaud and R. B. Vogelaar and J. Winter and M. Wojcik and A. Wright and M. Wurm and J. Xu and O. Zaimidoroga and S. Zavatarelli and K. Zuber and G. Zuzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7919},
year = {2014}
}
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8 pages, 11 figures. To be published as proceedings of Rencontres de Moriond EW 2014