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Potassium abundance in the Earth and Borexino data

An independent analysis of Borexino single event energy spectrum of recoil electrons and alphas was carried out. We compared two sets of single event sources. The first set is similar to the one used in Borexino Collaboration analysis. The second set additionally includes the scattering of $^{40}$K-geo-($\barν + ν$) on scintillator electrons. We found two equivalent minima for $χ^2$ for second set. The one is for total counting rates $R(^{40}$K-geo-$(\barν + ν)) = 0.0$ and $R(^{210}$Bi) = 10 cpd/100t. The other one is for $R(^{40}$K-geo-$(\barν + ν)) = 7.05$ cpd/100t and $R(^{210}$Bi$) = 6$ cpd/100t. We performed MC pseudo-experiments and found that we do not have enough statistics and need to know the bismuth concentration in the scintillator for definite measurement of potassium abundance in the Earth. The possibility of building a next-generation detector for looking for the $^{40}$K-geo-($\barν + ν$) flux is being considered.