“Perfection of Knowledge”
Recently, we have come across an Italian stamp from 2014 issued as part of a small series “Perfection of Knowledge”. The detector Borexino of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics is depicted in it.
The philatelist M. Teplinsky wrote once, “... Stamps can help us not only get to know one or another country, its flora and fauna, history and art, but also learn about state policy which is directly or indirectly reflected in the choice of stamp motives...”.
For your reference:
The Borexino collaboration:
The Borexino collaboration comprises scientific teams from Italy, Germany, the USA, France, Russia and Poland. It has about 100 members. The DLNP group is one of the oldest in the collaboration and has been involved in the experiment from the project discussion stage in 1991. Along with JINR scientists, our colleagues from other Russian institutions are participating in the Borexino project: from the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” (NRC KI) in Moscow, from the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of NRC KI, as well as from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University.
The Borexino detector has been taking data since 2007. Outstanding results in geoneutrino and solar neutrino physics were earlier obtained with it.
The Borexino group in Dubna:
The Borexino group was established at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1991. It is involved in the experiment from the very beginning. It contributed a lot to the study of solar neutrino fluxes, search for rare processes and geoneutrinos.
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