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most citedExperimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun

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hep-ex2021★ 33 cited

First Directional Measurement of sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94

We report the measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through the use of their associated Cherenkov radiation, performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del G…

hep-ex2021★ 23 cited

Correlated and Integrated Directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94

Liquid scintillator detectors play a central role in the detection of neutrinos from various sources. In particular, it is the only technique used so far for the precision spectros…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

Identification of the cosmogenic C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +93

Cosmogenic radio-nuclei are an important source of background for low-energy neutrino experiments. In Borexino, cosmogenic C decays outnumber solar and CNO neutrino ev…

physics.ins-det2021

The Low Polonium Field of Borexino and its significance for the CNO neutrino detection

S. Kumaran, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +93

Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector located at the Laboratori Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Italy with the main goal to measure solar neutrinos. The experiment recently provided…

hep-ex2021

First detection of CNO neutrinos with Borexino

G. Settanta, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +93

Neutrinos are elementary particles which are known since many years as fundamental messengers from the interior of the Sun. The Standard Solar Model, which gives a theoretical desc…

hep-ex2020★ 225 cited

Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +93

For most of their existence stars are fueled by the fusion of hydrogen into helium proceeding via two theoretically well understood processes, namely the chain and the CNO cyc…

hep-ex2020★ 25 cited

Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +91

Neutrinos emitted in the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle in the Sun are a sub-dominant, yet crucial component of solar neutrinos whose flux has not been measured yet. T…

hep-ex2019★ 2 cited

Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +101

We report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Electron…

hep-ex2019★ 87 cited

Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +109

This paper presents a geoneutrino measurement using 3262.74 days of data taken with the Borexino detector at LNGS in Italy. By observing $52.6 ^{+9.4}_{-8.6} ({\rm stat}) ^{+2.7}_{…

hep-ph2019★ 28 cited

Constraints on Flavor-Diagonal Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions from Borexino Phase-II

S. K. Agarwalla, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +103

The Borexino detector measures solar neutrino fluxes via neutrino-electron elastic scattering. Observed spectra are determined by the solar- survival probability …

hep-ex2018★ 53 cited

Modulations of the Cosmic Muon Signal in Ten Years of Borexino Data

The Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +113

We have measured the flux of cosmic muons in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso at 3800\,m\,w.e. to be based on ten y…

physics.data-an2018

Speeding up complex multivariate data analysis in Borexino with parallel computing based on Graphics Processing Unit

X. F. Ding, M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller +104

A spectral fitter based on the graphics processor unit (GPU) has been developed for Borexino solar neutrino analysis. It is able to shorten the fitting time to a superior level com…

hep-ex2017★ 68 cited

Improved measurement of B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt y of Borexino exposure

The Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +95

We report on an improved measurement of the B solar neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Neutrinos are detected vi…

hep-ex2017★ 173 cited

Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +104

A search for the solar neutrino effective magnetic moment has been performed using data from 1291.5 days exposure during the second phase of the Borexino experiment. No significant…

hep-ex2017★ 154 cited

Simultaneous Precision Spectroscopy of , Be, and Solar Neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +104

We present the first simultaneous measurement of the interaction rates of , Be, and solar neutrinos performed with a global fit to the Borexino data in an extended en…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 35 cited

A search for low-energy neutrinos correlated with gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104 with the Borexino detector

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99

We present the results of a low-energy neutrino search using the Borexino detector in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104. We search…

physics.ins-det2017★ 41 cited

The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +97

We describe the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation package of the Borexino detector and discuss the agreement of its output with data. The Borexino MC 'ab initio' simulates the energy los…

hep-ex2017★ 38 cited

Seasonal Modulation of the Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99

We detected the seasonal modulation of the Be neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The period, amplitude, a…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 19 cited

A search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts with Borexino

M. Agostini, K. Altenmeuller, S. Appel +97

A search for neutrino and antineutrino events correlated with 2,350 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is performed with Borexino data collected between December 2007 and November 2015. No st…