Experimental Detection of the CNO Cycle
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Contributors
- Chair of Nuclear Physics
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Abstract
Borexino recently reported the first experimental evidence for a CNO neutrino. Since this process accounts for only about 1% of the Sun’s total energy production, the associated neutrino flux is remarkably low compared to that of the pp chain, the dominant hydrogen-burning process. This experimental evidence for the existence of CNO neutrinos was obtained using a highly radio-pure Borexino liquid scintillator. Improvements in the thermal stabilization of the detector over the last five years have allowed us to exploit a method of constraining the rate of 210Bi background. Since the CNO cycle is dominant in massive stars, this result is the first experimental evidence of a major stellar hydrogen-to-helium conversion mechanism in the Universe.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 3-A24 |
| Journal | Acta Physica Polonica B, Proceedings Supplement |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |