New limits on nucleon decays into invisible channels with the BOREXINO counting test facility

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 563, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 23-34

  Back, H O ^a   Balata, M ^b   de Bari, A ^c   Beau, T ^d   de Bellefon, A ^d   Bellini, G ^e   Benziger, J ^f   Bonetti, S ^e   Buck, C ^g   Caccianiga, B ^e   Cadonati, L ^f   Calaprice, F ^f   Cecchet, G ^c   Chen, M ^h   di Credico, A ^b   Dadoun, O ^d   D'Angelo, D ⁱ   Denisov, V Y ^r   Derbin, A ^j,s   Deutsch, M ^k   Elisei, F ^l   Etenko, A ^m   von Feilitzsch, F ⁱ   Fernholz, R ^f   Ford, R ^f   Franco, D ^e   Freudiger, B ^g   Galbiati, C ^f   Gatti, F ⁿ   Gazzana, S ^b   Giammarchi, M G ^e   Giugni, D ^e   Goeger Neff, M ⁱ   Goretti, A ^b   Grieb, C ⁱ   Hagner, C ^a   Heusser, G ^g   Ianni, A ^b   Ianni, A M ^f   de Kerret, H ^d   Kiko, J ^g   Kirsten, T ^g   Kobychev, V ^b   Korga, G ^e   Korschinek, G ⁱ   Kozlov, Y ^m   Kryn, D ^d   Laubenstein, M ^b   Litvinovich, E ^m   Lendvai, C ⁱ   Lombardi, P ^e   Machulin, I ^m   Malvezzi, S ^e   Maneira, J ^h   Manno, I ^o   Manuzio, D ⁿ   Manuzio, G ⁿ   Masetti, F ^l   Martemianov, A ^m   Mazzucato, U ^l   McCarty, K ^f   Meroni, E ^e   Miramonti, L ^e   Monzani, M E ^e   Musico, P ⁿ   Niedermeier, L ⁱ   Oberauer, L ⁱ   Obolensky, M ^d   Ortica, F ^l   Pallavicini, M ⁿ   Papp, L ^e   Perasso, L ^e   Pocar, A ^f   Ponkratenko, O A ^r   Raghavan, R S ^p   Ranucci, G ^e   Razeto, A ^b   Sabelnikov, A ^e   Salvo, C ⁿ   Scardaoni, R ^e   Schimizzi, D ^f   Schoenert, S ^g   Simgen, H ^g   Shutt, T ^f   Skorokhvatov, M ^m   Smirnov, O ^j   Sonnenschein, A ^f   Sotnikov, A ^j   Sukhotin, S ^m   Tarasenkov, V ^m   Tartaglia, R ^b   Testera, G ⁿ   Tretyak, V I ^r   Vignaud, D ^d   Vogelaar, R B ^a   Vyrodov, V ^m   Wojcik, M ^q   Zaimidoroga, O ^j   Zdesenko, Y G ^r   Zuzel, G ^q   more..

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LNGSSS17   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^h QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^m KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ INFM   (Italy)

^o WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^p LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^q JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^r INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

^s PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Baryon number conservation; Proton decay; Scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 13; OXYGEN; PROTON; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0037982429     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00636-1     Document Type: Article

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