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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 40: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik 2
T 40.2: Talk
Monday, March 24, 2014, 17:05–17:20, P106
Update on the 8B neutrino analysis in Borexino — •Simon Appel for the Borexino collaboration — TU München
Borexino is a liquid scintillator based real-time neutrino detector with a target mass of 278t, located at the Laboratori Nationali del Gran Sasso. Due to its low energy threshold of 100 keV, Borexino was able to perform the first real-time measurement of 7Be neutrinos. Furthermore it is also sensitive to 8B neutrinos, which is main topic of this talk.
The 8B analysis is limited to a lower energy threshold of 3 MeV by external gamma background. As the expected event rate is in the order of only 0.2-0.3 counts per day, it is crucial to have a profound knowledge of the different background sources. Especially radio-isotopes produced by muons are a major source of background for this analysis. To veto these events one has to identify cosmic muons crossing Borexino, which is realized with a water cherenkov veto in the outer detector and a pulse shape analysis in the inner detector. A time cut after each muon reduces background induced by comsogenically produced radio-isotopes.
In the presented analysis it was possible to suppress all the backgrounds to a negligible value.
This allows to detect solar 8B neutrinos in Borexino and thus makes it possible to confirm the MSW-LMA solution.
This talk will give an update on this analysis within the Borexino detector framework.