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most citedMeasurement of the rate of nu_e + d --> p + p + e^- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

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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…

astro-ph2008★ 298 cited

Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino rate with a liquid scintillator target and 3 MeV energy threshold in the Borexino detector

The Borexino Collaboration

We report the measurement of electron neutrino elastic scattering from 8B solar neutrinos with 3 MeV energy threshold by the Borexino detector in Gran Sasso (Italy). The rate of so…

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…

astro-ph2008★ 403 cited

New results on solar neutrino fluxes from 192 days of Borexino data

The Borexino Collaboration

We report the direct measurement of the ^7Be solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The interaction rate of the…

astro-ph2007★ 14 cited

Discovery of underground argon with low level of radioactive 39Ar and possible applications to WIMP dark matter detectors

C. Galbiati, R. Purtschert

We report on the first measurement of 39Ar in argon from underground natural gas reservoirs. The gas stored in the US National Helium Reserve was found to contain a low level of 39…

astro-ph2007★ 247 cited

First real time detection of Be7 solar neutrinos by Borexino

Borexino Collaboration

This paper reports a direct measurement of the Be7 solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino low background liquid scintillator detector. This is the first real-time s…

physics.ins-det2007★ 60 cited

Pulse-Shape discrimination with the Counting Test Facility

H. O. Back et al.

Pulse shape discrimination (PSD) is one of the most distinctive features of liquid scintillators. Since the introduction of the scintillation techniques in the field of particle de…

hep-ex2006★ 69 cited

A Search for Neutrinos from the Solar hep Reaction and the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The SNO Collaboration

A search has been made for neutrinos from the hep reaction in the Sun and from the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) using data collected during the first operational ph…

nucl-ex2005★ 535 cited

Electron Energy Spectra, Fluxes, and Day-Night Asymmetries of B Solar Neutrinos from the 391-Day Salt Phase SNO Data Set

SNO Collaboration

Results are reported from the complete salt phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment in which NaCl was dissolved in the DO target. The addition of salt enhanced the…

nucl-ex2003★ 774 cited

Measurement of the Total Active 8B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity

SNO Collaboration

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has precisely determined the total active (nu_x) 8B solar neutrino flux without assumptions about the energy dependence of the nu_e survival…

nucl-ex2003★ 32 cited

Measurement of 222Rn dissolved in water at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

I. Blevis

The technique used at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) to measure the concentration of 222Rn in water is described. Water from the SNO detector is passed through a vacuum deg…

nucl-ex2001★ 1.9k cited

Measurement of the rate of nu_e + d --> p + p + e^- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration

Solar neutrinos from the decay of B have been detected at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) via the charged current (CC) reaction on deuterium and by the elastic scatterin…

nucl-ex1999★ 491 cited

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The SNO Collaboration

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a second generation water Cherenkov detector designed to determine whether the currently observed solar neutrino deficit is a result of neutrino…