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On the possibility of detecting solar pp neutrino with the large-volume liquid organic scintillator detector

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It is shown that a large-volume liquid organic scintillator detector with an energy resolution of 10 keV at 200 keV (1σ) will be sensitive to solar pp neutrinos, if operated at the target radiopurity levels for the Borexino detector or the solar neutrino project of KamLAND.

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  1. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, 188350, Russia

    A. V. Derbin

  2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow oblast, 141980, Russia

    O. Yu. Smirnov & O. A. Zaimidoroga

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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 67, No. 11, 2004, pp. 2087–2093.

Original English Text Copyright © 2004 by Derbin, Smirnov, Zaimidoroga.

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Derbin, A.V., Smirnov, O.Y. & Zaimidoroga, O.A. On the possibility of detecting solar pp neutrino with the large-volume liquid organic scintillator detector. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 67, 2066–2072 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1825531

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