Measurement of the solar B8 neutrino rate with a liquid scintillator target and 3 MeV energy threshold in the Borexino detector

We report the measurement of ν-e elastic scattering from B8 solar neutrinos with 3 MeV energy threshold by the Borexino detector in Gran Sasso (Italy). The rate of solar neutrino-induced electron scattering events above this energy in Borexino is 0.22±0.04(stat)±0.01(syst)cpd/100t, which corresponds...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Physical review. D 2010-08, Vol.82
Hauptverfasser:	Bellini, G., Benziger, J., Bonetti, S., Buizza Avanzini, M., Caccianiga, B., Cadonati, L., Calaprice, F., Carraro, C., Chavarria, A., Chepurnov, A., Dalnoki-Veress, F., d'Angelo, D., Davini, S., de Kerret, H., Derbin, A., Etenko, A., Fomenko, K., Franco, D., Galbiati, C., Gazzana, S., Ghiano, C., Giammarchi, M., Goeger-Neff, M., Goretti, A., Guardincerri, E., Hardy, S., Ianni, Aldo, Ianni, Andrea, Joyce, M., Korga, G., Kryn, D., Laubenstein, M., Leung, M., Lewke, T., Litvinovich, E., Loer, B., Lombardi, P., Ludhova, L., Machulin, I., Manecki, S., Maneschg, W., Manuzio, G., Meindl, Q., Meroni, E., Miramonti, L., Misiaszek, M., Montanari, D., Muratova, V., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Ortica, F., Pallavicini, M., Papp, L., Perasso, L., Perasso, S., Pocar, A., Raghavan, R. S., Ranucci, G., Razeto, A., Re, A., Risso, P., Romani, A., Rountree, D., Sabelnikov, A., Saldanha, R., Salvo, C., Schönert, S., Simgen, H., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, O., Sotnikov, A., Sukhotin, S., Suvorov, Y., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Vignaud, D., Vogelaar, R. B., von Feilitzsch, F., Winter, J., Wojcik, M., Wright, A., Wurm, M., Xu, J., Zaimidoroga, O., Zavatarelli, S., Zuzel, G.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astrophysics Physics Sciences of the Universe Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
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Zusammenfassung:	We report the measurement of ν-e elastic scattering from B8 solar neutrinos with 3 MeV energy threshold by the Borexino detector in Gran Sasso (Italy). The rate of solar neutrino-induced electron scattering events above this energy in Borexino is 0.22±0.04(stat)±0.01(syst)cpd/100t, which corresponds to ΦB8ES=2.4±0.4±0.1×106cm-2s-1, in good agreement with measurements from SNO and SuperKamiokaNDE. Assuming the B8 neutrino flux predicted by the high metallicity standard solar model, the average B8 νe survival probability above 3 MeV is measured to be 0.29±0.10. The survival probabilities for Be7 and B8 neutrinos as measured by Borexino differ by 1.9σ. These results are consistent with the prediction of the MSW-LMA solution of a transition in the solar νe survival probability Pee between the low-energy vacuum-driven and the high-energy matter-enhanced solar neutrino oscillation regimes.
ISSN:	2470-0010 2470-0029
DOI:	10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.033006