A low background facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory: the prototype of Borexino
Abstract
The prototype of the Borexino solar neutrino experiment is a low counting rate detector located at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. The detector was designed and built to achieve ultra-purity in an organic liquid scintillator on a massive scale. A number of ancillary plants and screening facilities are needed to reach low background in the sub-MeV region. The detector and its screening facilities are briefly described in this paper.
- Authors:
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- Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (Italy)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 20719241
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 785; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: LRT 2004: Topical workshop on low radioactivity techniques, Sudbury, ON (Canada), 12-14 Dec 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2060479; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; COUNTING RATES; KEV RANGE 100-1000; LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; SOLAR NEUTRINOS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
Citation Formats
Ianni, A. A low background facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory: the prototype of Borexino. United States: N. p., 2005.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.2060479.
Ianni, A. A low background facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory: the prototype of Borexino. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2060479
Ianni, A. 2005.
"A low background facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory: the prototype of Borexino". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2060479.
@article{osti_20719241,
title = {A low background facility at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory: the prototype of Borexino},
author = {Ianni, A},
abstractNote = {The prototype of the Borexino solar neutrino experiment is a low counting rate detector located at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. The detector was designed and built to achieve ultra-purity in an organic liquid scintillator on a massive scale. A number of ancillary plants and screening facilities are needed to reach low background in the sub-MeV region. The detector and its screening facilities are briefly described in this paper.},
doi = {10.1063/1.2060479},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20719241},
journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 785,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2005},
month = {Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2005}
}
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