Neutrino physics with the Borexino detector

Datum

09.06.2016

Zeit

15:00 - 16:00

Sprecher

Livia Ludhova

Zugehörigkeit

RWTH Aachen

Serie

IKTP Institutsseminar

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Physik

Andere Themen

Physik

Beschreibung

Borexino detector is placed in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in central Italy. After several years of work, it has reached unprecedented levels of radio-purity. This brought a real breakthrough in the real-time neutrino detection and in the liquid scintillator technique in general. For the first time, the spectroscopic measurements of solar neutrino species at sub-MeV energies became possible. Geoneutrinos, antineutrinos from the decays of long-lived radioactive elements inside the Earth, have been detected. Limits on several rare processes have been set. The size of the scintillator target (sphere with 8.5 m diameter) and its radio-purity, make it an ideal tool for the search of sterile neutrinos with artificial sources (SOX project). The colloquium will bring a review about the status, results, and future prospective of neutrino physics performed with this unique detector.

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