First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
At the IDM conference in L'Aquila (Italy), the XENON collaboration announced today that it has measured neutrinos from the sun for the first time using nuclear recoil signals. The detected neutrinos are produced in the interior of the sun during nuclear decays of the isotope boron-8. When they collide with the atomic nuclei of the XENONnT detector, low-energy nuclear recoils are produced.
Link to the official press release from the XENON collaboration.
Publication
- E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration),
First Measurement of Solar 8B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT,
arXiv:2408.02877.