Speaker
Ms.
Maria Toropova
(NRC Kurchatov Institute)
Description
Solar flares are sudden variations in brightness observed near the Sun's surface. Some theorethical models predict production of electron and muon neutrinos with energies up to few tens of MeV during solar flares. In 1980th the Homestake experiment reported excess of detected neutrino events possibly correlated with large solar flares. Since then the interest to similar studies by other neutrino detectors has increased. In this talk we summarize the status of experimental searches and describe the methodology for the study of neutrinos from solar flares in Borexino liquid scintillator detector.
Primary author
Ms.
Maria Toropova
(NRC Kurchatov Institute)
Co-authors
Ms.
Liudmila Borodikhina
(NRC Kurchatov Institute)
Mr.
Viktor Atroshchenko
(NRC Kurchatov Institute)
