Borexino calibrations: Hardware, Methods, and Results
Instrumentation and Detectors
2015-07-22 v2
Abstract
Borexino was the first experiment to detect solar neutrinos in real-time in the sub-MeV region. In order to achieve high precision in the determination of neutrino rates, the detector design includes an internal and an external calibration system. This paper describes both calibration systems and the calibration campaigns that were carried out in the period between 2008 and 2011. We discuss some of the results and show that the calibration procedures preserved the radiopurity of the scintillator. The calibrations provided a detailed understanding of the detector response and led to a significant reduction of the systematic uncertainties in the Borexino measurements.
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@article{arxiv.1207.4816,
title = {Borexino calibrations: Hardware, Methods, and Results},
author = {Borexino collaboration and H. Back and G. Bellini and J. Benziger and D. Bick and G. Bonfini and D. Bravo and M. Buizza Avanzini and B. Caccianiga and L. Cadonati and F. Calaprice and C. Carraro and P. Cavalcante and A. Chavarria and D. D'Angelo and S. Davini and A. Derbin and A. Etenko and F. von Feilitzsch and G. Fernandes 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 E. Guardincerri and S. Hardy and Aldo Ianni and Andrea Ianni and A. Kayunov and S. Kidner and V. Kobychev and D. Korablev and G. Korga and Y. Koshio and D. Kryn and M. Laubenstein and T. Lewke and E. Litvinovich and B. Loer and F. Lombardi and P. Lombardi and L. Ludhova 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 D. Montanari 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 R. S. Raghavan and G. Ranucci and A. Razeto and A. Re and A. Romani and N. Rossi and D. Rountree and A. Sabelnikov and R. Saldanha and C. Salvo and S. Schonert 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 G. Zuzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4816},
year = {2015}
}