Muon and cosmogenic neutron detection in Borexino
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Muon and Cosmogenic Neutron Detection in Borexino
Borexino, a liquid scintillator detector at LNGS, is designed for the detection of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the Sun, supernovae, nuclear reactors, and the Earth. The feeble nature of these signals requires a strong suppression of backgrounds below a few MeV. Very low intrinsic radiogenic contamination of all detector components needs to be accompanied by the efficient identification of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Instrumentation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1748-0221
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/05/p05005