INFN—Borexino Project to Study Neutrinos

The Borexino project is dedicated to the study of low-energy solar neutrinos. The sun’s output is made up of these neutrinos. The neutrino has no electric charge and cannot be divided further unlike a proton or electron which consists of further sub-atomic particles. Neutrinos are classified as leptons and come in three flavors – muon, tau, and electron.

The San Grasso National Labs one of the four labs in the INFN, focuses on this research.
The interesting part about the project is the detector which is a series of concentric rings containing increasingly pure water as one goes from the outer ring to the inner ring. The ring structure helps filter out unwanted radiation. At the center is a stainless steel sphere which again uses a concentric ring structure to detect the neutrinos.

LabVIEW has been utilized in the past at this site for various projects. In this example, LabVIEW was used to operate a magnetometer. The application translated a file of sequence commands into a LabVIEW-based state machine which runs several operations in parallel.

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