Search for astrophysical neutrinos in the Baikal neutrino project

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 704-716

  Avrorin, A V ^a   Ainutdinov, V M ^a   Belolaptikov, I A ^d   Bogorodskii, D Yu ^b   Budnev, N M ^b   Wisznewski, R ^e   Gaponenko, O N ^a   Golubkov, K V ^d   Gress, O A ^b   Gress, T I ^b   Grishin, O G ^b   Danil'chenko, I A ^a   Dzhilkibaev, Zh A M ^a   Domogatskii, G V ^a   Doroshenko, A A ^a   D'yachok, A N ^b   Zhukov, V A ^a   Zagorodnikov, A V ^b   Klabukov, A M ^a   Klimov, A I ^h   Konishchev, K V ^d   Korobchenko, A V ^b   Koshechkin, A P ^a   Kuz'michev, L A ^c   Kulepov, V F ^f   Kuleshov, D A ^a   Lyashuk, V I ^a   Middell, E ^e   Milenin, M B ^f   Mirgazov, R R ^b   Mikheev, S P ^a   Osipova, E A ^c   Panfilov, A I ^a   Pan'kov, L V ^b   Pan'kov, A L ^b   Perevalov, A A ^b   Petukhov, D A ^a   Pliskovskii, E N ^d   Poleshchuk, V A ^a   Popova, E G ^c   Prosin, V V ^c   Rozanov, M I ^g   Rubtsov, V Yu ^b   Ryabov, E V ^b   Sinegovskii, S I ^b   Suvorova, O V ^a   Tarashchanskii, B A ^b   Fialkovskii, S V ^f   Shaibonov, B A ^d   Sheifler, A A ^d   Shirokov, A N ^c   Spiering, C ^e   Yagunov, A S ^b   more..

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY N A R E ALEKSEEV   (Russian Federation)

^g ST PETERSBURG STATE MARINE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baikal; gamma ray bursts; neutrino astrophysics; neutrino telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555198198     PISSN: 15474771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S154747711107003X     Document Type: Article

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