Speaker
Lothar Oberauer
(TUM)
Description
For the first time, the Borexino experiment in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory directly detected neutrinos which are emitted by the thermo-nuclear fusion process of two protons in the Sun (nature, issue Sep 2014). Lothar will report on background identification and suppression which was necessary for this measurement. The results are compared with the expected neutrino fluxes and the actual values of neutrino oscillation parameters. Finally, future aspects of Borexino will be discussed.
