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Detecting the Upturn of the Solar B Neutrino Spectrum with LENA
LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) has been proposed as a next generation
50 kt liquid scintillator detector. The large target mass allows a high
precision measurement of the solar B neutrino spectrum, with an
unprecedented energy threshold of 2 MeV. Hence, it can probe the MSW-LMA
prediction for the electron neutrino survival probability in the transition
region between vacuum and matter-dominated neutrino oscillations. Based on
Monte Carlo simulations of the solar neutrino and the corresponding background
spectra, it was found that the predicted upturn of the solar B neutrino
spectrum can be detected with 5 sigma significance after 5 y
The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA
We propose the liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino
Astronomy) as a next-generation neutrino observatory on the scale of 50 kt. The
outstanding successes of the Borexino and KamLAND experiments demonstrate the
large potential of liquid-scintillator detectors in low-energy neutrino
physics. LENA's physics objectives comprise the observation of astrophysical
and terrestrial neutrino sources as well as the investigation of neutrino
oscillations. In the GeV energy range, the search for proton decay and
long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments complement the low-energy
program. Based on the considerable expertise present in European and
international research groups, the technical design is sufficiently mature to
allow for an early start of detector realization.Comment: Whitepaper for the LENA low-energy neutrino detector, 67 pages, 32
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