Borexino calibrations: Hardware, methods, and results

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Back, H ^c   Bellini, G ^a   Benziger, J ^f   Bick, D ^q   Bonfini, G ^b   Bravo, D ^c   Buizza Avanzini, M ^e   Caccianiga, B ^a   Cadonati, L ^p   Calaprice, F ^d   Carraro, C ^g   Cavalcante, P ^b   Chavarria, A ^d   Chepurnov, A ^r   Angelo, D D ^a   Davini, S ^g,t   Derbin, A ⁱ   Etenko, A ^j   Von Feilitzsch, F ^h   Fernandes, G ^g   Fomenko, K ^k   Franco, D ^e   Galbiati, C ^d   Gazzana, S ^b   Ghiano, C ^b   Giammarchi, M ^a   Goeger Neff, M ^h   Goretti, A ^d   Grandi, L ^d   Guardincerri, E ^g   Hardy, S ^c   Ianni, Aldo ^b   Ianni, Andrea ^d   Kayunov, A ⁱ   Kidner, S ^c   Kobychev, V ^s   Korablev, D ^k   Korga, G ^m,t   Koshio, Y ^b   Kryn, D ^e   Laubenstein, M ^b   Lewke, T ^h   Litvinovich, E ^j   Loer, B ^d   Lombardi, F ^b   Lombardi, P ^a   Ludhova, L ^a   MacHulin, I ^j   Manecki, S ^c   Maneschg, W ^l   Manuzio, G ^g   Meindl, Q ^h   Meroni, E ^a   Miramonti, L ^a   Misiaszek, M ⁿ   Montanari, D ^b,d   Mosteiro, P ^d   Muratova, V ⁱ   Oberauer, L ^h   Obolensky, M ^e   Ortica, F ^o   Otis, K ^p   Pallavicini, M ^g   Papp, L ^c,m   Perasso, L ^g   Perasso, S ^g   Pocar, A ^p   Raghavan, R S ^c   Ranucci, G ^a   Razeto, A ^b   Re, A ^a   Romani, A ^o   Rossi, N ^b   Rountree, D ^c   Sabelnikov, A ^j   Saldanha, R ^d   Salvo, C ^g   Schonert S ^h   Simgen, H ^l   Skorokhvatov, M ^j   Smirnov, O ^k   Sotnikov, A ^k   Sukhotin, S ^j   Suvorov, Y ^j,u   Tartaglia, R ^b   Testera, G ^g   Vignaud, D ^e   Vogelaar, R B ^c   Winter, J ^h   Wojcik, M ⁿ   Wright, A ^d   Wurm, M ^q   Xu, J ^d   Zaimidoroga, O ^k   Zavatarelli, S ^g   Zuzel, G ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

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

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^j KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^k JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^m WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

ⁿ JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^r MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^s INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

^t University of Houston   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Calorimeters; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; DETECTOR DESIGN; DETECTOR RESPONSE; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; SOLAR NEUTRINO; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES;

CALORIMETERS; DETECTORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84868300004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/10/P10018     Document Type: Article

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