First real time detection of 7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino

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

Volumn 658, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 101-108

  Arpesella, C ^a   Bellini, G ^b   Benziger, J ^c   Bonetti, S ^b   Caccianiga, B ^b   Calaprice, F ^d   Dalnoki Veress, F ^d   D'Angelo, D ^b   de Kerret, H ^f   Derbin, A ^g   Deutsch, M ^h   Etenko, A ^e   Fomenko, K ⁱ   Ford, R ^d   Franco, D ^b   Freudiger, B ^o   Galbiati, C ^d   Gazzana, S ^a   Giammarchi, M ^b   Goeger Neff, M ^j   Goretti, A ^d   Grieb, C ^k   Hardy, S ^k   Heusser, G ^o   Ianni, Aldo ^a   Ianni, Andrea ^d   Joyce, M ^k   Korga, G ^a   Kryn, D ^f   Laubenstein, M ^a   Leung, M ^d   Litvinovich, E ^e   Lombardi, P ^b   Ludhova, L ^b   Machulin, I ^e   Manuzio, G ^l   Martemianov, A ^e   Masetti, F ^m   McCarty, K ^d   Meroni, E ^b   Miramonti, L ^b   Misiaszek, M ⁿ   Montanari, D ^a   Monzani, M E ^a   Muratova, V ^g   Niedermeier, L ^j   Oberauer, L ^j   Obolensky, M ^f   Ortica, F ^m   Pallavicini, M ^l   Papp, L ^a   Perasso, L ^b   Pocar, A ^d   Raghavan, R S ^k   Ranucci, G ^b   Razeto, A ^a   Sabelnikov, A ^e   Salvo, C ^a   Schonert S ^o   Simgen, H ^o   Smirnov, O ⁱ   Skorokhvatov, M ^e   Sonnenschein, A ^d   Sotnikov, A ⁱ   Sukhotin, S ^e   Suvorov, Y ^b,e   Tarasenkov, V ^e   Tartaglia, R ^a   Testera, G ^l   Vignaud, D ^f   Vitale, S ^l   Vogelaar, R B ^k   von Feilitzsch, F ^j   Wojcik, M ⁿ   Zaimidoroga, O ⁱ   Zavatarelli, S ^l   Zuzel, G ^o   more..

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^g PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

^l INFM   (Italy)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

ⁿ JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^o MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Liquid scintillators; Low background detectors; Neutrino oscillations; Solar neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849025467     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.054     Document Type: Article

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