Ultra-low-background physics: lessons from BOREXINO and future steps
The Borexino experiment concluded the data acquisition at the end of 2021 and among the solar neutrino experiments it has been the only one capable of reconstructing the position and the energy on an event-by-event base, with an energy threshold of 150 keV, thanks to its ultra-high radio-purity. The experimental techniques and analysis methods that allowed Borexino to reach such unprecedented levels of radio-purity are now a standard and the legacy that Borexino leaves to the next low energy neutrinos and rare event searching experiments. This contribution is aimed to present the methods and the main achievements of the Borexino and to summarize the broad experimental effort presently in progress in the field of ultra-low background physics to further improve the sensitivity with massive underground detectors and new techniques.
Authors
- V. Di Marcello
- L. Pietrofaccia
- O. Smirnov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-0442)
- Aldo Ianni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6962-3682)
- A. Singhal
- S. Kumaran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6418-1320)
- V. Kobychev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0030-7451)
- A. Di Ludovico
- G. Bellini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8686-689X)
- M.T. Ranalli
- A. Derbin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4351-2255)
- D. D’Angelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9857-8107)
- J. Martyn
- N. Rossi
- G. Zuzel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-2658)
- L. Miramonti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2808-5363)
- S. Schönert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5276-2881)
- A. Di Giacinto
- L. Di Noto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2448-6805)
- A. Caminata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5800-5504)
- D. Basilico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-9236)
- G. Ranucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-8191)
- M. Wurm
- I. Lomskaya
- A. Sotnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-5949)
- I. Drachnev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-8093)
- D. Franco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5604-2531)
- Luca Pelicci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8283-3388)
- A. Pocar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8598-6512)
- A. Razeto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0578-097X)
- M. Pallavicini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7309-3023)
- C. Galbiati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-502X)
- A. Jany
- G. Raikov
- V. Muratova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5532-7711)
- M. Misiaszek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5726-9666)
- R. Biondi
- D. Güffanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-5618)
- Xuefeng Ding (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8803-320X)
- Ö. Penek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3421-1415)
- G. Settanta
- F. Ortica (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-452X)
- L. Ludhova
- F.L. Villante (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7667-4499)
- N. Pilipenko
- L. Oberauer
- P. Lombardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-3154)
- V. Orekhov
- R. Nugmanov
- Matthias Laubenstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5390-4343)
- Frank Calaprice
- Marcin Wójcik
- Roberto Tartaglia
- Igor Machulin
- Andrea Ianni
- Mikhail Skorokhvatov
- Gemma Testera
- Jay B. Benziger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0786-5827)
- F. von Feilitzsch
- Gyorgy Korga
- R. B. Vogelaar
- E. Unzhakov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-6412)
- Dmitrii Semenov
- M. Gromov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2869-2363)
- Sandra Zavatarelli
- A. Vishneva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2624-9416)
- A. Goretti
- B. Caccianiga
- E. Meroni
- C. Ghiano
- E. Litvinovich
- Alexander Chepurnov
- M. Giammarchi
- K. Zuber
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22323/1.473.0093
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00