Experimental investigation of geologically produced antineutrinos with KamLAND

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7050, 2005, Pages 499-503

  Araki, T ^a   Enomoto, S ^a   Furuno, K ^a   Gando, Y ^a   Ichimura, K ^a   Ikeda, H ^a   Inoue, K ^a   Kishimoto, Y ^a   Koga, M ^a   Koseki, Y ^a   Maeda, T ^a   Mitsui, T ^a   Motoki, M ^a   Nakajima, K ^a   Ogawa, H ^a   Ogawa, M ^a   Owada, K ^a   Ricol, J S ^a   Shimizu, I ^a   Shirai, J ^a   Suekane, F ^a   Suzuki, A ^a   Tada, K ^a   Takeuchi, S ^a   Tamae, K ^a   Tsuda, Y ^a   Watanabe, H ^a   Busenitz, J ^b   Classen, T ^b   Djurcic, Z ^b   Keefer, G ^b   Leonard, D ^b   Piepke, A ^b   Yakushev, E ^b   Berger, B E ^c   Chan, Y D ^c   Decowski, M P ^c   Dwyer, D A ^c   Freedman, S J ^c   Fujikawa, B K ^c   Goldman, J ^c   Gray, F ^c   Heeger, K M ^c   Hsu, L ^c   Lesko, K T ^c   Luk, K B ^c   Murayama, H ^c   O'Donnell, T ^c   Poon, A W P ^c   Steiner, H M ^c   Winslow, L A ^c   Mauger, C ^d   McKeown, R D ^d   Vogel, P ^d   Lane, C E ^e   Miletic, T ^e   Guillian, G ^f   Learned, J G ^f   Maricic, J ^f   Matsuno, S ^f   Pakvasa, S ^f   Horton Smith, G A ^g   Dazeley, S ^h   Hatakeyama, S ^h   Rojas, A ^h   Svoboda, R ^h   Dieterle, B D ⁱ   Detwiler, J ^j   Gratta, G ^j   Ishii, K ^j   Tolich, N ^j   Uchida, Y ^j   Batygov, M ^k   Bugg, W ^k   Efremenko, Y ^k   Kamyshkov, Y ^k   Kozlov, A ^k   Nakamura, Y ^k   Karwowski, H J ^l,m,n   Markoff, D M ^l,m,n   Nakamura, K ^l,m,n   Rohm, R M ^l,m,n   Tornow, W ^l,m,n   Wendell, R ^l,m,n   Chen, M J ^o   Wang, Y F ^o   Piquemal, F ^p   more..

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^l DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Departments of Physics   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^o INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^p CENTRE D ETUDES NUCLÉAIRES DE BORDEAUX GRADIGNAN   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; PHOSPHORS; RADIOACTIVITY;

DISSIPATION RATE; ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS; ELECTRON ANTUNEUTRINOS; GEOPHYSICAL INFORMATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

THORIUM 232; URANIUM 238;

DETECTION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; GEOLOGY; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; NEUTRINO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

EID: 23444431955     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03980     Document Type: Article

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