TY  - CONF
AU  - Penek, Ömer
AU  - et al. Borexino Collaboration
TI  - Borexino Sensitivity Studies towards Detection of Solar Neutrinos from the CNO Fusion Cycle
PB  - RWTH Aachen
M1  - FZJ-2021-00603
PY  - 2020
AB  - The Borexino detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is a liquid scintillator detector with a primary goal to measure solar neutrinos. The *pp* fusion chain has been measured in Borexino with an outstanding precision through the detection of *pp*, *pep*, $^{7}$Be, and $^{8}$B neutrinos. It is well motivated by standard solar models that around 1 per cent of the solar energy is fueled by the so-called Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) cycle. A direct measurement of the CNO cycle is difficult due to the high spectral correlation with the background isotope $^{210}$Bi and *pep* neutrinos. The sensitivity to CNO neutrinos was evaluated through a likelihood-ratio test, based on thousands of pseudo-experiments analyzed with a counting analysis as well as spectral fit. This poster presents the resulting discovery potential of Borexino towards the CNO cycle in the Sun.
T2  - The XXIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics
CY  - 22 Jun 2020 - 2 Jul 2020, Chicago (USA)
Y2  - 22 Jun 2020 - 2 Jul 2020
M2  - Chicago, USA
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)24
DO  - DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.4401808
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890009
ER  -