The study of neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources by Borexino

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Contributors

  • Borexino Collaboration - (Author)
  • Chair of Nuclear Physics
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Princeton University
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • RAS - Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
  • Institute for Celestial Mechanics and Computation of Ephemerides
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Jülich Research Centre
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Technical University of Munich
  • TUD Dresden University of Technology

Abstract

The recent observation of CNO solar neutrinos by Borexino (BX) has proven the high potential offered by large underground ultrapure liquid scintillators to disclose weak neutrino and antineutrino fluxes. Supernovae explosions, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares and Gravitational Waves (GW) are among the possible extra-terrestrial sources of neutrinos and antineutrinos. The extreme radiopurity of the BX detector has already allowed to get the best upper limits on all flavor fluences in the few MeV energy range from gamma ray bursts, to set limits on the diffuse supernova antineutrino background in the unexplored energy region below 8 MeV and to get the strongest upper limits on fast radio bursts associated neutrino fluences up to 50 MeV. Recently, BX has searched for neutrino events in correlation with GW events from 2015 to 2020 using the BX data-set of the same periods. The strongest upper limits on GW-associated neutrino and antineutrino fluences have been obtained in the (0.5-5.0) MeV neutrino energy range. The present contribution is aimed to describe the analysis procedures and the deduced upper limits for all neutrino flavors.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number244
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume441
Publication statusPublished - 22 Mar 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title18th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics
Abbreviated titleTAUP 2023
Conference number18
Duration28 August - 1 September 2023
Website
LocationUniversität Wien
CityWien
CountryAustria

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