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View article: Search for high energy 5.5 MeV solar axions with the complete Borexino dataset
Search for high energy 5.5 MeV solar axions with the complete Borexino dataset Open
View article: Simulation-based Inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo Tuning
Simulation-based Inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo Tuning Open
Precise modeling of detector energy response is crucial for next-generation neutrino experiments which present computational challenges due to lack of analytical likelihoods. We propose a solution using neural likelihood estimation within …
View article: Simulation-based inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo tuning
Simulation-based inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo tuning Open
Precise modeling of detector energy response is crucial for next-generation neutrino experiments which present computational challenges due to lack of analytical likelihoods. We propose a solution using neural likelihood estimation within …
View article: Characterization of spurious-electron signals in the double-phase argon TPC of the DarkSide-50 experiment
Characterization of spurious-electron signals in the double-phase argon TPC of the DarkSide-50 experiment Open
Spurious-electron signals in dual-phase noble-liquid time projection chambers have been observed in both xenon and argon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). This paper presents the first comprehensive study of spurious electrons in argon, usi…
View article: Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50
Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50 Open
We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($12202\pm180$) ${\rm kg\: d}$ exposure. We focus on evaporati…
View article: Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator
Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator Open
JUNO is a huge neutrino detector that will use 20 kton of organic liquid scintillator as its detection medium. The scintillator is a mixture of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), 2.5 g/L of 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) and 3 mg/L of 1,4-Bis(2-methyl…
View article: Ultra-low-background physics: lessons from BOREXINO and future steps
Ultra-low-background physics: lessons from BOREXINO and future steps Open
View article: Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator
Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator Open
JUNO is a huge neutrino detector that will use 20 kton of organic liquid scintillator as its detection medium. The scintillator is a mixture of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), 2.5 g/L of 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) and 3 mg/L of 1,4-Bis(2-methyl…
View article: Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50
Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50 Open
Dark matter may induce an event in an Earth-based detector, and its event rate is predicted to show an annual modulation as a result of the Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun. We searched for this modulation signature using the ionizati…
View article: Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector
Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector Open
View article: Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction
Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction Open
Nuclear reactors are a source of electron an- tineutrinos due to the presence of unstable fission prod- ucts that undergo β− decay. They will be exploited by the JUNO experiment to determine the neutrino mass ordering and to get very preci…
View article: Distillation and gas stripping purification plants for the JUNO liquid scintillator
Distillation and gas stripping purification plants for the JUNO liquid scintillator Open
View article: Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator
Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator Open
View article: Optimized <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>α</mml:mi><mml:mo>/</mml:mo><mml:mi>β</mml:mi></mml:math> pulse shape discrimination in Borexino
Optimized pulse shape discrimination in Borexino Open
Borexino could efficiently distinguish between α and β radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of its scintillation pulse. This α/β discrimination, first demonstrated on the ton scale in the counting test fa…
View article: Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector
Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector Open
Several neutrino detectors, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the forthcoming large-scale JUNO, rely on liquid scintillator to detect reactor antineutrino interactions. In this context, inverse beta decay represents the golden cha…
View article: Distillation and Stripping purification plants for JUNO liquid scintillator
Distillation and Stripping purification plants for JUNO liquid scintillator Open
The optical and radiochemical purification of the scintillating liquid, which will fill the central detector of the JUNO experiment, plays a crucial role in achieving its scientific goals. Given its gigantic mass and dimensions and an unpr…
View article: Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator
Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator Open
In the field of rare event physics, it is common to have huge masses of organic liquid scintillator as detection medium. In particular, they are widely used to study neutrino properties or astrophysical neutrinos. Thanks to its safety prop…
View article: Long-term temporal stability of the DarkSide-50 dark matter detector
Long-term temporal stability of the DarkSide-50 dark matter detector Open
The stability of a dark matter detector on the timescale of a few years is a key requirement due to the large exposure needed to achieve a competitive sensitivity. It is especially crucial to enable the detector to potentially detect any a…
View article: Combined directional and spectral analysis of solar neutrinos from Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen fusion cycle with Borexino Experiment
Combined directional and spectral analysis of solar neutrinos from Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen fusion cycle with Borexino Experiment Open
Borexino, placed at LNGS in Italy, was a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector that took data from May 2007 to October 2021. Thanks to its unprecedented radio-purity, the real time spectroscopic measurement of solar neutrinos from both the …
View article: Directionality measurement of CNO neutrinos with Borexino detector
Directionality measurement of CNO neutrinos with Borexino detector Open
In the following, the first measurement of CNO solar neutrinos obtained by Borexino by exploiting the directional information retained by solar neutrino is summarized [1]. The Correlated Integrated Directionality (CID) method makes use of …
View article: Constraints on flavor-diagonal non-standard neutrino interactions from Borexino Phase-II
Constraints on flavor-diagonal non-standard neutrino interactions from Borexino Phase-II Open
The Borexino detector measures solar neutrino fluxes via neutrino-electron elastic scattering. Observed spectra are determined by the solar-$\\nu_{e}$ survival probability $P_{ee}(E)$, and the chiral couplings of the neutrino and electron.…
View article: Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction
Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction Open
Nuclear reactors are a source of electron antineutrinos due to the presence of unstable fission products that undergo $β^-$ decay. They will be exploited by the JUNO experiment to determine the neutrino mass ordering and to get very precis…
View article: Final results of Borexino on CNO solar neutrinos
Final results of Borexino on CNO solar neutrinos Open
We report the first measurement of CNO solar neutrinos by Borexino that uses\nthe Correlated Integrated Directionality (CID) method, exploiting the\nsub-dominant Cherenkov light in the liquid scintillator detector. The\ndirectional informa…
View article: Novel techniques for alpha/beta pulse shape discrimination in Borexino
Novel techniques for alpha/beta pulse shape discrimination in Borexino Open
Borexino could efficiently distinguish between alpha and beta radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of their scintillation pulse. This alpha/beta discrimination, first demonstrated at the tonne scale in th…
View article: Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50
Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50 Open
Dark matter induced event rate in an Earth-based detector is predicted to show an annual modulation as a result of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. We searched for this modulation signature using the ionization signal of the Dark…
View article: Borexino’s search for low-energy neutrinos associated with gravitational wave events from GWTC-3 database
Borexino’s search for low-energy neutrinos associated with gravitational wave events from GWTC-3 database Open
View article: Search for low mass dark matter in DarkSide-50: the bayesian network approach
Search for low mass dark matter in DarkSide-50: the bayesian network approach Open
View article: Search for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interactions via Migdal Effect with DarkSide-50
Search for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interactions via Migdal Effect with DarkSide-50 Open
Dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei can result in the excitation and ionization of the recoiling atom through the so-called Migdal effect. The energy deposition from the ionization electron adds to the energy deposited by the recoili…
View article: Search for Dark Matter Particle Interactions with Electron Final States with DarkSide-50
Search for Dark Matter Particle Interactions with Electron Final States with DarkSide-50 Open
We present a search for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/c^{2} masses whose interactions have final state electrons using the DarkSide-50 experiment's (12 306±184) kg d low-radioactivity liquid argon exposure. By analyzing the ionization…
View article: Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50
Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50 Open
We report on the search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the mass range below 10 GeV=c2 from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low-radioactivity argon target by the DarkSide-50 experiment at …