Direct measurement of the Be7 solar neutrino flux with 192 days of Borexino bata

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Arpesella, C ^a,b   Back, H O ^u   Balata, M ^a   Bellini, G ^b   Benziger, J ^d   Bonetti, S ^b   Brigatti, A ^b   Caccianiga, B ^b   Cadonati, L ^e,f   Calaprice, F ^f   Carraro, C ^g   Cecchet, G ^h   Chavarria, A ^f   Chen, M ^f,i   Dalnoki Veress, F ^f   D'Angelo, D ^b   De Bari, A ^h   De Bellefon, A ^j   De Kerret, H ^j   Derbin, A ^k   Deutsch, M ^l   Di Credico, A ^a   Di Pietro, G ^a,b   Eisenstein, R ^f   Elisei, F ^m   Etenko, A ⁿ   Fernholz, R ^f   Fomenko, K ^o   Ford, R ^v   Franco, D ^b   Freudiger, B ^p   Galbiati, C ^b,f   Gatti, F ^g   Gazzana, S ^a   Giammarchi, M ^b   Giugni, D ^b   Goeger Neff, M ^q   Goldbrunner, T ^w   Goretti, A ^a,b,f   Grieb, C ^x   Hagner, C ^y   Hampel, W ^p   Harding, E ^z   Hardy, S ^c   Hartman, F X ^p   Hertrich, T ^q   Heusser, G ^p   Ianni, Aldo ^a,f   Ianni, Andrea ^f   Joyce, M ^c   Kiko, J ^p   Kirsten, T ^p   Kobychev, V ^r   Korga, G ^a   Korschinek, G ^q   Kryn, D ^j   Lagomarsino, V ^g   Lamarche, P ^a,f   Laubenstein, M ^a   Lendvai, C ^q   Leung, M ^f   Lewke, T ^q   Litvinovich, E ⁿ   Loer, B ^f   Lombardi, P ^b   Ludhova, L ^b   MacHulin, I ⁿ   Malvezzi, S ^b   Manecki, S ^c   Maneira, J ^aa   Maneschg, W ^p   Manno, I ^b,s   Manuzio, D ^ab   Manuzio, G ^g   Martemianov, A ⁿ   Masetti, F ^m   Mazzucato, U ^m   McCarty, K ^f   McKinsey, D ^ac   Meindl, Q ^q   Meroni, E ^b   Miramonti, L ^b   Misiaszek, M ^a,t   Montanari, D ^a,f   Monzani, M E ^a,b   Muratova, V ^k   Musico, P ^g   Neder, H ^p   Nelson, A ^f   Niedermeier, L ^q   Oberauer, L ^q   Obolensky, M ^j   Orsini, M ^a   Ortica, F ^m   Pallavicini, M ^g   Papp, L ^a   Parmeggiano, S ^b   Perasso, L ^b   Pocar, A ^ad   Raghavan, R S ^c   Ranucci, G ^b   Rau, W ^i,p   Razeto, A ^a   Resconi, E ^g,p   Risso, P ^g   Romani, A ^m   Rountree, D ^c   Sabelnikov, A ⁿ   Saldanha, R ^f   Salvo, C ^g   Schimizzi, D ^d   Schonert S ^p   Shutt, T ^ae   Simgen, H ^p   Skorokhvatov, M ⁿ   Smirnov, O ^o   Sonnenschein, A ^af   Sotnikov, A ^o   Sukhotin, S ⁿ   Suvorov, Y ^b,n   Tartaglia, R ^a   Testera, G ^g   Vignaud, D ^j   Vitale, S ^g   Vogelaar, R B ^c   Von Feilitzsch, F ^q   Von Hentig, R ^x   Von Hentig, T ^x   Wojcik, M ^t   Wurm, M ^q   Zaimidoroga, O ^o   Zavatarelli, S ^g   Zuzel, G ^p   more..

^a LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INFM   (Italy)

^h INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

ⁱ QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^k PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^l MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

ⁿ KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^o JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^p MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^q TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^r INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

^s WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^t JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^u NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v European Patent Office ^*  (Canada)

^w BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^x EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

^y UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^z LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

^aa Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica de Particulas Lisbon   (Portugal)

^ab CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

^ac YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^af FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR NEUTRINOS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 50849089667     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.091302     Document Type: Article

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