Measurement of neutrino flux from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun with Borexino detector

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Beitragende

  • Borexino Collaboration - (Autor:in)
  • Professur für Kernphysik
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Excellence Cluster ORIGINS
  • Università degli Studi di Milano
  • Princeton University
  • Universität Hamburg
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • RAS - Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
  • University of Houston
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • NASU - Institute of Nuclear Research
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

Abstract

Neutrino produced in a chain of nuclear reactions in the Sun starting from the fusion of two protons, for the first time has been detected in a real-time detector in spectrometric mode. The unique properties of the Borexino detector provided an oppurtunity to disentangle pp-neutrino spectrum from the background components. A comparison of the total neutrino flux from the Sun with Solar luminosity in photons provides a test of the stability of the Sun on the 105 years time scale, and sets a strong limit on the power production in the unknown energy sources in the Sun of no more than 4% of the total energy production at 90% C.L.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)995-1002
Seitenumfang8
FachzeitschriftPhysics of Particles and Nuclei
Jahrgang47
Ausgabenummer6
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Nov. 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-6705-7138/work/176344579

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