Decommissioning Phases of the Borexino Detector Will Start on Monday, 4 October
Ezio Previtali, Director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, congratulated collaboration members on the unprecedented results obtained by the Borexino experiment. He believes that Borexino can be considered as one of the most important experiments in neutrino physics ever realized.
In spite of the detector shutdown, the Borexino collaboration will continue its functioning for at least two years. The processing of the accumulated data is intended to be completed. The special focus will be on the data taken after the thermal insulation of the detector till its shutdown.
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The Borexino collaboration comprises scientific teams from Italy, Germany, the USA, France, Russia and Poland. The group from the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems is one of the oldest in the collaboration and is involved in the experiment from the project discussion stage in 1991. Along with the JINR scientists, colleagues from the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” (NRCKI) working on the site in Moscow and in St Petersburg in the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of NRCKI are participating in the Borexino project, as well as specialists from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University.
Oleg Smirnov, Head of the JINR group of the Borexino experiment. Photo by Roman Sakovich
DLNP researchers at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. In the photo: Finding the faulty photomultiplier. Photo by Roman Sakovich
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