TY - JOUR
T1 - Scintillator purification, detector performance and first results from Borexino
AU - Borexino Collaboration
AU - Pallavicini, M.
AU - Bellini, G.
AU - Benziger, J.
AU - Bonetti, S.
AU - Caccianiga, B.
AU - Calaprice, F.
AU - Dalnoki-Veress, F.
AU - D'Angelo, D.
AU - De Kerret, H.
AU - Derbin, A.
AU - Etenko, A.
AU - Fomenko, K.
AU - Ford, R.
AU - Franco, D.
AU - Galbiati, C.
AU - Gazzana, S.
AU - Giammarchi, M.
AU - Goeger-Neff, M.
AU - Goretti, A.
AU - Grieb, C.
AU - Hardy, S.
AU - Heusser, G.
AU - Ianni, A.
AU - Ianni, A.
AU - Joyce, M.
AU - Korga, G.
AU - Kryn, D.
AU - Laubenstein, M.
AU - Leung, M.
AU - Litvinovich, E.
AU - Lombardi, P.
AU - Ludhova, L.
AU - MacHulin, I.
AU - Manuzio, G.
AU - Masetti, F.
AU - McCarty, K.
AU - Meroni, E.
AU - Miramonti, L.
AU - Misiaszek, M.
AU - Montanari, D.
AU - Monzani, M. E.
AU - Muratova, V.
AU - Niedermeier, L.
AU - Oberauer, L.
AU - Obolensky, M.
AU - Ortica, F.
AU - Pallavicini, M.
AU - Papp, L.
AU - Perasso, L.
AU - Schönert, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2008/1/1
Y1 - 2008/1/1
N2 - The Borexino experiment has begun data taking in May 2007 after a long R&D work and preparation. The liquid scintillator purity exceeds even optimistic expectations, and the first detection of 7Be solar neutrinos has been possible after less than two months of data taking. This note shows briefly which are the main issues that were addressed in order to obtain such an extreme radiopurity, the detector performance and a few details concerning this first result.
AB - The Borexino experiment has begun data taking in May 2007 after a long R&D work and preparation. The liquid scintillator purity exceeds even optimistic expectations, and the first detection of 7Be solar neutrinos has been possible after less than two months of data taking. This note shows briefly which are the main issues that were addressed in order to obtain such an extreme radiopurity, the detector performance and a few details concerning this first result.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/120/5/052017
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/120/5/052017
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84962738961
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 120
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - Part 5
M1 - 052017
T2 - 10th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2007
Y2 - 11 September 2007 through 15 September 2007
ER -