TY - JOUR
T1 - Borexino
T2 - Geo-neutrino measurement at Gran Sasso, Italy
AU - Borexino collaboration
AU - Agostini, Matteo
AU - Altenmüller, Konrad
AU - Appel, Simon
AU - Bellini, Gianpaolo
AU - Benziger, Jay
AU - Bick, Daniel
AU - Benziger, Jay Burton
AU - Bravo, David
AU - Caccianiga, Barbara
AU - Calaprice, Frank
AU - Caminata, Alessio
AU - Cavalcante, Paolo
AU - Chepurnov, Alexander
AU - D’angelo, Davide
AU - Davini, Stefano
AU - Derbin, Alexander
AU - Di Noto, Lea
AU - Drachnev, Ilya
AU - Etenko, Alexander
AU - Fomenko, Kirill
AU - Formozov, Andrey
AU - Franco, Davide
AU - Gabriele, Federico
AU - Galbiati, Cristian
AU - Ghiano, Chiara
AU - Galbiati, Cristiano
AU - Göger-Neff, Marianne
AU - Goretti, Augusto
AU - Gromov, Maxim
AU - Hagner, Caren
AU - Hungerford, Ed
AU - Ianni, Aldo
AU - Ianni, Andrea
AU - Jedrzejczak, Karol
AU - Jeschke, Dominik
AU - Kobychev, Vladislav
AU - Korablev, Denis
AU - Korga, Gyorgy
AU - Kryn, Didier
AU - Laubenstein, Matthias
AU - Lehnert, Bjoern
AU - Litvinovich, Evgeny
AU - Lombardi, Francesco
AU - Lombardi, Paolo
AU - Ludhova, Livia
AU - Lukyanchenko, Georgy
AU - Machulin, Igor
AU - Manecki, Szymon
AU - Maneschg, Werner
AU - Marcocci, Simone
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Geo-neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos produced in b-decays of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the Earth, are a unique direct probe of our planet’s interior. After a brief introduction of the geo-neutrinos’ properties and of the main aims of their study, we discuss the features of a detector which has recently provided breakthrough achievements in the field, Borexino, a massive, calorimetric liquid scintillator detector installed at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. With its unprecedented ra-diopurity levels achieved in the core of the detection medium, it is the only experiment in operation able to study in real time solar neutrino interactions in the challenging sub-MeV energy region. Its superior technical properties allowed Borexino also to provide a clean detection of terrestrial neutrinos. Therefore, the description of the characteristics of the detected geo-neutrino signal and of the corresponding geological implications are the main core of the discussion contained in this work.
AB - Geo-neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos produced in b-decays of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the Earth, are a unique direct probe of our planet’s interior. After a brief introduction of the geo-neutrinos’ properties and of the main aims of their study, we discuss the features of a detector which has recently provided breakthrough achievements in the field, Borexino, a massive, calorimetric liquid scintillator detector installed at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. With its unprecedented ra-diopurity levels achieved in the core of the detection medium, it is the only experiment in operation able to study in real time solar neutrino interactions in the challenging sub-MeV energy region. Its superior technical properties allowed Borexino also to provide a clean detection of terrestrial neutrinos. Therefore, the description of the characteristics of the detected geo-neutrino signal and of the corresponding geological implications are the main core of the discussion contained in this work.
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U2 - 10.4401/ag-7389
DO - 10.4401/ag-7389
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062874412
SN - 1593-5213
VL - 60
JO - Annals of Geophysics
JF - Annals of Geophysics
IS - 1
M1 - S0114
ER -