Experiments
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SCHOLARSHIP OFFER for a PhD student to be hired in the frame of a project financed by the Polish National Science Centre In experiments investigating neutrino oscillations (Nobel Prize in...0October 15, 2024

SCHOLARSHIP OFFER for a PhD student

On February 19, 2023, on the Day of Polish Science, the Minister of Education and Science awarded prizes to outstanding scientists representing various fields of science. The team from Jagiellonian...0February 22, 2023

Minister of Education and Science award for CNO neutrinos

The 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology is awarded to the Borexino collaboration for the groundbreaking observation of solar neutrinos from...0June 2, 2021

Borexino awarded the EPS 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize

  Słońce produkuje energię w reakcji fuzji jądrowej, w której wodór zamieniany jest w hel. Może ona zachodzić na dwa sposoby: w tzw. cyklu PP, w którym produkowane jest 99...0November 25, 2020

2020: Rejestracja neutrin słonecznych typu CNO

Science 05 Sep 2019: eaav8613 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav8613 The GERDA experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory is searching for a hypothetical nuclear decay called neutrinoless double beta decay which represents...0September 6, 2019

2019: Closing in on the neutrino mass

Nature volume 562, pages 505–510 (2018) A. Jany, M. Misiaszek, M. Wójcik and G. Zuzel with Borexino Collaboration Download https://rdcu.be/9Zx0 (pdf) DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0624-y Synopsis Solar neutrinos reveal how the Sun...0October 26, 2018

2018: Comprehensive measurement of pp-chain solar neutrinos

W ostatnim numerze czasopisma naukowego Nature opublikowany został artykuł zespołu GERDA pt. “Background free search for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA”, zawierający wyniki dotychczasowych poszukiwań podwójnego bezneutrinowego rozpadu beta...0April 6, 2017

Najnowsze wyniki naszych badań w czasopiśmie Nature

The GERDA Experiment ready to discover the rarest radioactive decay Polska wersja językowa Why is there more matter than antimatter in the Universe? The reason might be hidden in the...0April 6, 2017

Recent GERDA results in Nature

Zespół prof. M. Wójcika poszukuje magistra fizyki, który zatrudniony zostałby jako doktorant w ramach projektu finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki Celem realizowanego projektu jest opracowanie nowatorskich metod badawczych, które wykorzystane...0July 22, 2016

Oferta zatrudnienia – Doktorant

No background events were observed in the First Data Release from GERDA Phase II. The limit on the neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life set to T1∕20ν > 5.2 × 1025 years...0July 5, 2016

2016: Gerda Phase II Data Release

Phys. Rev. D 93, 081101(R) P. Agnes et al. (DarkSide Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel & K. Pelczar Download http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.081101 Abstract Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle...0April 20, 2016

2016: Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 86 C. Galbiati, M. Misiaszek and N. Rossi Download http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16086-1 Abstract In this report we describe the unique capabilities of the α/β discrimination of...0April 17, 2016

2016: alpha/beta discrimination in Borexino

Spotlighting exceptional research: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/793 Agostini M., et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek, K. Jędrzejczak Phys. Rev. D 92, 031101(R) Spectroscopy of geoneutrinos from 2056 days of...0March 16, 2016

2015: Focus: Neutrinos Detected from the Earth’s Mantle

Spotlighting exceptional research: physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.231802 Agostini M., et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek, K. Jędrzejczak Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231802 Test of Electric Charge Conservation with Borexinoa...0March 16, 2016

2015: Synopsis: Still Waiting For Electron Decay

Physical Review Letters, 2015 vol. 115 no. 23 Agostini M., et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek, K. Jędrzejczak See Synopsis: Still Waiting For Electron Decay Download...0February 17, 2016

2015: Test of electric charge conservation with Borexino

Physics Letters. B, 2015 vol. 743, p. 456-466 Agnes P., et al. (Dark-Side Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, K. Pelczar Download http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.03.012 Abstract We report the first results of DarkSide-50,...0February 17, 2016

2015: First results from the DarkSide-50 dark matter experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 2015 vol. 92 no. 3 Agostini M., et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek, K. Jędrzejczak See Focus story:...0February 17, 2016

2015: Spectroscopy of geoneutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data

Spotlighting exceptional research: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v512/n7515/full/nature13702.html BOREXINO Collaboration, Nature 512, 383–386 (28 August 2014) Neutrinos from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13702 Abstract In the core of the Sun,...0September 5, 2014

Neutrinos from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun (BOREXINO, Nature 2014)

NIM A (2014) N. Frodyma, K. Pelczar,  M. Wójcik Download http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.039 Abstract The results of alpha spectrometric measurements of the activity of 222Rn daughters dissolved in liquefied nitrogen are presented....0February 3, 2014

2014: Observation and modeling of 222Rn daughters in liquid nitrogen

Solar Physics July 2014, Volume 289, Issue 7, pp 2705-2726, DOI 10.1007/s11207-014-0498-6 Stanisław Zięba 1) and Zenon Nieckarz 2) 1) Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland 2) Institute of Physics,...0March 9, 2014

2014: Sunspot Time Series: Passive and Active Intervals

Spotlighting exceptional research: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.122503 M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 122503 (2013) Results on Neutrinoless Double-β Decay of 76Ge from Phase I of the GERDA Experiment...0September 25, 2013

2013: APS Spotlighting exceptional research. Neutrinoless Decays Are a No Show Again

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 122503 (2013) M Agostini et al., (GERDA Collaboration), N. Frodyma, M. Misiaszek, K. Pelczar, M. Wojcik, G. Zuzel Download http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5084 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.122503 Abstract Neutrinoless double beta decay...0July 24, 2013

2013: Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I

G. Bellini et al.  M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek JHEP 08 (2013) 038 Download: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)038 Abstract The very low radioactive background of the Borexino detector, its large size, and...0September 18, 2013

2013: SOX: Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino

G. Bellini et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek Phys. Lett. B 722 (2013) 295–300 Download: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.030 Abstract We present a measurement of the geo-neutrino signal obtained...0May 8, 2013

2013: Measurement of geo-neutrinos from 1353 days of Borexino

Europ. Phys. J. C 73:2330 (2013) K.H. Ackermann et al., (GERDA Collaboration), N. Frodyma, K. Pelczar, M. Wojcik, G. Zuzel Download http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4067 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-013-2330-0   Abstract The GERDA collaboration is performing...0December 18, 2012

2013: The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in Ge-76

First Evidence of pep Solar Neutrinos by Direct Detection in Borexino G. Bellini et al. (Borexino Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 051302 (2012) Download:...0November 4, 2011

2012: First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino

Spotlighting exceptional research: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.051302 G. Bellini et al. (Borexino Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 051302 (2012) First Evidence of pep Solar Neutrinos by Direct Detection in Borexino Neutrinos coming from...0February 8, 2012

2012: APS Spotlighting exceptional research. Rare Fusion Reactions Probed with Solar Neutrinos