Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2005-06-22
Phys.Lett. B627 (2005) 38-48
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
15 pages, 1 figure. Very few changes in the text. Final version to be published on Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.122
We show that liquid organic scintillator detectors (e.g., KamLAND and Borexino) can measure the 8B solar neutrino flux by means of the nu_e charged current interaction with the 13C nuclei naturally contained in the scintillators. The neutrino events can be identified by exploiting the time and space coincidence with the subsequent decay of the produced 13N nuclei. We perform a detailed analysis of the background in KamLAND, Borexino and in a possible liquid scintillator detector at SNOLab, showing that the 8B solar neutrino signal can be extracted with a reasonable uncertainty in a few years of data taking. KamLAND should be able to extract about 18 solar neutrino events from the already collected data. Prospects for gigantic scintillator detectors (such as LENA) are also studied.
Ianni Aldo
Montanino Daniele
Villante Francesco Lorenzo
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