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most citedThe Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

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physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158

Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…

physics.ins-det2016★ 11 cited

CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment

P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162

This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 186 cited

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark…

physics.ins-det2012★ 86 cited

Borexino calibrations: Hardware, Methods, and Results

Borexino collaboration, H. Back, G. Bellini +93

Borexino was the first experiment to detect solar neutrinos in real-time in the sub-MeV region. In order to achieve high precision in the determination of neutrino rates, the detec…

physics.ins-det2011★ 95 cited

Muon and Cosmogenic Neutron Detection in Borexino

Borexino Collaboration, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +86

Borexino, a liquid scintillator detector at LNGS, is designed for the detection of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the Sun, supernovae, nuclear reactors, and the Earth. The feeble…

hep-ex2010★ 229 cited

Observation of Geo-Neutrinos

Borexino Collaboration

Geo-neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos produced in beta decays of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the Earth, are a unique direct probe of our planet's interior. We repo…

hep-ex2009★ 72 cited

New experimental limits on the Pauli forbidden transitions in C nuclei obtained with 485 days Borexino data

The Borexino Collaboration

The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) has been tested for nucleons () in with the Borexino detector.The approach consists of a search for , , and emit…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 2 cited

Solar neutrino results from Borexino and main future perspectives

M. Pallavicini

Borexino is a solar neutrino experiment running at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The radioactive background levels in the liquid scintillator target meet or even…

hep-ex2009

The first year of Borexino

Borexino Collaboration, D. Franco

Borexino is an experiment designed to detect in real-time low energy solar neutrinos. It is installed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory and has started taking data in May 20…

physics.ins-det2008★ 380 cited

The Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Borexino Collaboration, G. Alimonti

Borexino, a large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy, is currently running underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The main goal of the exp…

hep-ex2007★ 2 cited

LENS as a Probe of Sterile Neutrino Mediated Oscillations

C. Grieb, J. M. Link, M. L. Pitt +3

Sterile neutrino () conversion in meter scale baselines can be sensitively probed using mono-energetic, sub-MeV, flavor pure 's from an artificial MCi source and the uniq…