21.12.2020

In the November issue of the European physical journal  EPJ C, a paper of the Borexino collaboration was published about detector sensitivity to CNO neutrinos with respect to the strategy which sets limits on two main backgrounds in measurements—neutrinos from the pp chain and bismuth-210 decay events in scintillator. Considering a neutrino flux predicted by one of the standard models of the Sun, Borexino was sensitive to CNO neutrinos during the 1000-day exposure at the level of above 3σ. With the same considerations, the precision of the CNO-neutrino flux measurement is 23% with a restriction on the rate of bismuth-210 event counting at the level of 1.5 events a day for 100 t of scintillator. For upcoming experiments with a higher precision of the CNO-neutrino flux measurement, the probability was evaluated to identify a more reliable model of the Sun, of high or low metallicity. This article complements the one recently published in Nature.