TY - JOUR
T1 - The Borexino experiment liquid scintillator purification and containment system
AU - Borexino collaboration
AU - Dalnoki-Veress, F.
AU - Galbiati, C.
AU - Goretti, A.
AU - Ianni, A.
AU - Pocar, A.
AU - Calaprice, F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2008/1/1
Y1 - 2008/1/1
N2 - Borexino is a large volume, real-time, liquid scintillator detector located at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. The principal objective of the detector is to measure mono energetic (862 keV) 7Be neutrinos from the sun present with a count rate of several tens of events per day. Measurement at this level requires an extremely low internal background due to natural radioactivity present in the detector components. In this paper the techniques used by Borexino to purify the scintillator and to build the nylon containment vessels are described. The unprecedented high radiopurity reached by Borexino permitted for the first time the realtime detection of 7Be neutrinos from the sun[1].
AB - Borexino is a large volume, real-time, liquid scintillator detector located at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. The principal objective of the detector is to measure mono energetic (862 keV) 7Be neutrinos from the sun present with a count rate of several tens of events per day. Measurement at this level requires an extremely low internal background due to natural radioactivity present in the detector components. In this paper the techniques used by Borexino to purify the scintillator and to build the nylon containment vessels are described. The unprecedented high radiopurity reached by Borexino permitted for the first time the realtime detection of 7Be neutrinos from the sun[1].
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/120/5/052036
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/120/5/052036
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85069462836
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 120
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - Part 5
M1 - 052036
T2 - 10th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2007
Y2 - 11 September 2007 through 15 September 2007
ER -