Borexino publications
For papers listed below, we try whenever possible to provide links to electronic copies both in the journal of publication (a subscription or payment may be required), and in the free-access arXiv. Be warned that in some cases, the final published version may have changed significantly from the version posted in arXiv. On the other hand, in a few cases (as for the geoneutrino paper), the version in arXiv has been updated more recently than the published version.
Within each section, papers are listed chronologically with the most recent at the top. The set of papers here is not exhaustive; it only includes those authored by the whole collaboration, or by at least one person affiliated with Princeton. For other related papers you may want to look at the web pages of the other Borexino groups.
Collaboration papers
These papers are co-authored by the entire Borexino collaboration.
- Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"Study of phenylxylylethane (PXE) as
scintillator
for low energy neutrino experiments",
Nucl.
Instr. Meth. A
585
(2008) 48-60.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.10.045.
Pre-print: arXiv:physics/0408032. - Borexino collaboration, C. Arpesella
et al., "First real time detection of
7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino",
Phys.
Lett. B
658
(2008) 101-108.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.054.
Pre-print: arXiv:0708.2251. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"Pulse-Shape discrimination with the Counting
Test Facility",
Nucl. Instr. Meth.
A 584
(2008) 98-113.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.09.036.
Pre-print: arXiv:0705.0239. - Borexino collaboration, M. Balata et al.,
"Search for electron antineutrino interactions
with the Borexino Counting Test Facility at
Gran Sasso", Eur.
Phys. J. C
47 (2006)
21-30.
Online: doi:10.1140/epjc/s2006-02560-4.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ex/0602027. - Borexino collaboration, H. Back et al.,
"CNO and pep neutrino spectroscopy in
Borexino: Measurement of the deep-underground
production of cosmogenic 11C in an
organic liquid scintillator", Phys. Rev. C
74 (2006) 045805.
Online: doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.74.045805.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ex/0601035. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"New experimental limits on violations of the
Pauli exclusion principle obtained with the
Borexino Counting Test Facility",
Eur. Phys. J. C
37 (2004)
421-431.
Online: doi:10.1140/epjc/s2004-01991-1.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ph/0406252. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"New experimental limits on heavy neutrino
mixing in 8B-decay obtained with
the Borexino Counting Test Facility",
JETP Lett.
78 (2003)
261-266.
Online: doi:10.1134/1.1625721. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"Study of neutrino electromagnetic properties
with the prototype of the Borexino detector",
Phys. Lett. B
563 (2003)
35-47.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00579-3. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"New limits on nucleon decays into invisible
channels with the BOREXINO counting test
facility", Phys. Lett.
B
563 (2003) 23-34.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00636-1.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ex/0302002. - Borexino collaboration, C. Arpesella et al.,
"Measurements of extremely low radioactivity
levels in BOREXINO",
Astropart. Phys.
18 (2002) 1-25.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00179-7.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ex/0109031. - Borexino collaboration, H. O. Back et al.,
"Search for electron decay mode e →
γ + ν with prototype of Borexino
detector", Phys.
Lett. B
525 (2002) 29-40.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01440-X. - Borexino collaboration, G. Alimonti et al.,
"Science and technology of Borexino: a
real-time detector for low energy solar
neutrinos", Astropart.
Phys.
16 (2002) 205-234.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00110-4.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ex/0012030. - Borexino collaboration, G. Alimonti et al.,
"Light propagation in a large volume
liquid scintillator",
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A
440 (2000)
360-371.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00961-4. - Borexino collaboration, G. Alimonti et al.,
"A large-scale low-background liquid
scintillation detector: the counting test
facility at Gran Sasso", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A
406 (1998)
411-426.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00018-7.
Pre-print: local copy. - Borexino collaboration, G. Alimonti et al.,
"Measurement of the 14C abundance
in a low-background liquid scintillator",
Phys. Lett. B
422 (1998)
349-358.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01565-7. - Borexino collaboration, G. Alimonti et al.,
"Ultra-low background measurements in a large
volume underground detector", Astropart. Phys.
8 (1998)
141-157.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(97)00050-9.
Other refereed papers
These papers are not official collaboration papers, but are related to Borexino and co-authored by at least one person involved with the Princeton group.
- J. Benziger, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice,
E. de Haas, R. Fernholz, R. Ford, C. Galbiati,
A. Goretti, E. Harding, A. Ianni, An. Ianni,
S. Kidner, M. Leung, F. Loeser, K. McCarty,
A. Nelson, R. Parsells, A. Pocar, T. Shutt,
A. Sonnenschein, and R. B. Vogelaar, "The nylon
scintillator containment vessels for the
Borexino solar neutrino experiment",
Nucl. Instr.
Meth. A 582
(2007) 509-534.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.176.
Pre-print: arXiv:physics/0702162. - C. Galbiati and K. McCarty,
"Time and space reconstruction in optical,
non-imaging, scintillator-based particle
detectors", Nucl.
Instr. Meth. A 568
(2006) 700-709.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.07.058.
Pre-print: arXiv:physics/0503185. - C. Galbiati and J. F. Beacom, "Measuring
the cosmic ray muon-induced fast neutron
spectrum by (n,p) isotope production reactions
in underground detectors", Phys. Rev. C
72 (2005) 025807.
Erratum at Phys. Rev.
C 73
(2006) 049906.
Online: doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.72.025807, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.73.049906.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ph/0504227. - C. Galbiati, A. Pocar, D. Franco, A. Ianni,
L. Cadonati, and S. Schönert, "Cosmogenic
11C production and sensitivity of
organic scintillator detectors to pep
and CNO neutrinos",
Phys. Rev. C
71 (2005) 055805.
Online: doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.71.055805.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ph/0411002. - L. Cadonati, F. P. Calaprice, and
M. C. Chen, "Supernova neutrino detection
in Borexino",
Astropart. Phys. 16 (2002)
361-372.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00129-3.
Pre-print: arXiv:hep-ph/0012082. - M. Chen, F. Elisei, F. Masetti, U.
Mazzucato, C. Salvo, and G. Testera, "Quenching
of undesired fluorescence in a liquid
scintillator particle detector", Nucl. Instr. Meth.
A 420
(1999) 189-201.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(98)01133-4. - C. G. Rothschild, M. C. Chen, and
F. P. Calaprice, "Antineutrino Geophysics
with Liquid Scintillator Detectors",
Geophys. Res. Lett.
25
(1998) 1083-1086.
Online: doi:10.1029/98GL50667.
Pre-print: arXiv:nucl-ex/9710001 [NOTE: more up-to-date than published version.] - J. B. Benziger, M. Johnson, F. P. Calaprice,
M. Chen, N. Darnton, R. Loeser, and
R. B. Vogelaar, "A scintillator purification
system for a large scale solar neutrino
experiment", Nucl.
Instr. Meth. A
417 (1998)
278-296.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00767-0. - M. Johnson, J. Benziger, C. Stoia,
F. Calaprice, M. Chen, N. Darnton, F. Loeser,
and R. B. Vogelaar, "A 222Rn
source for low-background liquid scintillation
detectors", Nucl.
Instr. Meth. A
414 (1998)
459-465.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00632-9. - R. B. Vogelaar, J. Benziger, F. P. Calaprice,
and N. Darnton, "Removal of cosmogenic
7Be from scintillators",
Nucl. Instr. Meth.
A 372
(1996) 59-62.
Online: doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)01239-7. - M. Balata, L. Cadonati, M. Laubenstein,
G. Heusser, M. G. Giammarchi, R. Scardaoni,
V. Torri, G. Cecchet, A. de Bari, and A.
Perotti, "The water purification system for
the low background counting test facility of
the Borexino experiment at Gran Sasso",
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A
370
(1996) 605-608.
Online: doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)00862-4.
Conference presentations, posters and proceedings
- [TAUP 2007, poster] F. Dalnoki-Veress, C. Galbiati, A. Goretti, A. Ianni, A. Pocar, and F. Calaprice,
"The Borexino Scintillator Purification and
Containment Systems".
Poster: title banner, purification panel, vessels panel. - [Neutrino 2006, poster] F. Dalnoki-Veress,
"Short-Term Quality Control and Assurance
for Borexino",
proceedings
to be published in
J. Phys.: Conf. Series.
Poster: here. - [Neutrino 2006, poster]
K. McCarty, "Tagging Radon
Daughters in Low-Energy Scintillation Detectors",
proceedings
to be published in
J. Phys.: Conf. Series.
Local copy: here.
Poster: here. - [CIPANP 2006, talk]
K. McCarty, "Status of the
Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment, 2006",
AIP Conf. Proc.
870 (2006)
560-563.
Online: doi:10.1063/1.2402701.
Local copy: here.
Slides: here. - [Neutrino 2004, talk] C. Galbiati,
"Current Status of the BOREXINO experiment",
Nucl. Phys. B
(Proc. Suppl.)
143 (2005)
21-24.
Online: doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.01.083. - [LRT 2004, talk] M. Leung, "Surface
contamination from radon progeny",
AIP Conf. Proc.
785 (2005)
184-190.
Online: doi:10.1063/1.2060470.
Local copy: here.
Slides: here. - [LRT 2004, talk] A. Pocar, "Low background
techniques for the Borexino nylon vessels",
AIP Conf. Proc.
785 (2005)
153-162.
Online: doi:10.1063/1.2060466.
Pre-print: arXiv:physics/0503243.
Slides: here. - [LRT 2004, talk] A. Pocar, "11C
Background in Liquid Scintillator Detectors",
AIP Conf. Proc.
785 (2005)
248-255.
Online: doi:10.1063/1.2060477.
Slides: here. - [TAUP 2001, talk] T. Shutt,
"Borexino: a status report",
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc.
Suppl.)
110 (2002)
323-325.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01498-6.
Slides: here. - [INPC 2001, talk] M. Deutsch, C. Galbiati,
C. Lendvai, K. McCarty [presenter], L. Oberauer,
A. Razeto, and S. Schönert,
"The Borexino Muon
Detector and Muon-Induced Backgrounds", AIP Conf. Proc.
610 (2002)
973-977.
Online: doi:10.1063/1.1470266.
Local copy: here. - [INPC 2001, poster] A. Ianni and
A. Pocar [presenter], "Borexino and the Solar
Neutrino Puzzle".
Poster: here. [Note: there are some minor issues with symbol fonts in this PDF.] - [TAUP 1999, talk] F. Calaprice, "The
Borexino experiment—a status report",
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc.
Suppl.) 87 (2000) 180-182.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(00)00659-9.
Local copy: here. - [Como 1998, talk]
J. B. Benziger, "A scintillator
purification system for a large scale solar
neutrino experiment", Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
78 (1999)
105-110.
Online: doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00530-7.
Local copy: here.
Ph. D. theses
- M. Leung, The
Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment:
Scintillator Purification and Surface
Contamination,
Physics Department, Princeton University (2006).
[44 Mb]
[By chapter] - K. McCarty, The
Borexino Nylon Film and the Third
Counting Test Facility,
Physics Department, Princeton University
(2006). [8.9 Mb]
[By chapter] - A. Pocar, Low
Background Techniques and Experimental
Challenges for Borexino and its
Nylon Vessels, Physics
Department, Princeton University (2003).
[25 Mb]
[By chapter] - L. Cadonati, The
Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment and
its Scintillator Containment
Vessel, Physics Department,
Princeton University (2001). [4.3 Mb]
[By chapter] - M. Johnson, Scintillator
Purification and Study of Light
Propagation in a Large Liquid
Scintillator Detector,
Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton
University (1998). [3.2 Mb]
[By chapter]
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