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most citedThe Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

380 citations · 2k across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.IM2010★ 36 cited

Searching for prompt signatures of nearby core-collapse supernovae by a joint analysis of neutrino and gravitational-wave data

I. Leonor, L. Cadonati, E. Coccia +11

We discuss the science motivations and prospects for a joint analysis of gravitational-wave (GW) and low-energy neutrino data to search for prompt signals from nearby supernovae (S…

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…

gr-qc2006★ 172 cited

Coherent searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: results from the second LIGO science run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. The first search is targeted at isolated, pr…

astro-ph2005★ 110 cited

Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has performed a third science run with much improved sensitivities of all three interferometers. We present an analys…

hep-ex2003★ 112 cited

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations from upward throughgoing muon multiple scattering in MACRO

The MACRO Collaboration

The energy of atmospheric neutrinos detected by MACRO was estimated using multiple coulomb scattering of upward throughgoing muons. This analysis allows a test of atmospheric neutr…

hep-ex2002★ 36 cited

Measurement of the residual energy of muons in the Gran Sasso underground Laboratories

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio

The MACRO detector was located in the Hall B of the Gran Sasso underground Laboratories under an average rock overburden of 3700 hg/cm^2. A transition radiation detector composed o…

hep-ph2002★ 9 cited

Search for cosmic ray sources using muons detected by the MACRO experiment

M. Ambrosio

The MACRO underground detector at Gran Sasso Laboratory recorded 60 million secondary cosmic ray muons from February 1989 until December 2000. Different techniques were used to ana…

physics.ins-det2002★ 20 cited

Muon Energy Estimate Through Multiple Scattering with the Macro Detector

The MACRO Collaboration

Muon energy measurement represents an important issue for any experiment addressing neutrino induced upgoing muon studies. Since the neutrino oscillation probability depends on the…

hep-ex2001★ 155 cited

Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in BOREXINO

Borexino Collaboration, C. Arpesella

The techniques researched, developed and applied towards the measurement of radioisotope concentrations at ultra-low levels in the real-time solar neutrino experiment BOREXINO at G…

hep-ex2001★ 192 cited

Matter Effects in Upward-Going Muons and Sterile Neutrino Oscillations

The MACRO Collaboration

The angular distribution of upward-going muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos in the rock below the MACRO detector show anomalies in good agreement with two flavor neutrino-mu =…

hep-ex2000★ 31 cited

A Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles with the MACRO Detector

MACRO Collaboration

A search for lightly ionizing particles has been performed with the MACRO detector. This search was sensitive to particles with charges between $\fractional{5}$ and close to the…

astro-ph2000★ 79 cited

Neutrino astronomy with the MACRO detector

M. Ambrosio

High energy gamma ray astronomy is now a well established field and several sources have been discovered in the region from a few GeV up to several TeV. If sources involving hadron…

hep-ex2000★ 82 cited

Low energy atmospheric muon neutrinos in MACRO

The MACRO Collaboration

We present the measurement of two event samples induced by atmospheric of average energy . In the first sample, the neutrino interacts inside the MACRO…

hep-ex1999★ 29 cited

High statistics measurement of the underground muon pair separation at Gran Sasso

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio et al

We present a measurement of the underground decoherence function using multi-muon events observed in the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso at an average depth of 3800 hg/cm**2. Muon pai…

hep-ex1998★ 84 cited

Limits on dark matter WIMPs using upward-going muons in the MACRO detector

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio et al

We perform an indirect search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the MACRO detector to look for neutrino-induced upward-going muons resulting from the annihilat…

hep-ex1998★ 42 cited

The Observation of Up-going Charged Particles Produced by High Energy Muons in Underground Detectors

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio et al

An experimental study of the production of up-going charged particles in inelastic interactions of down-going underground muons is reported, using data obtained from the MACRO dete…

hep-ex1998★ 32 cited

Measurement of the energy spectrum of underground muons at Gran Sasso with a transition radiation detector

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio et al

We have measured directly the residual energy of cosmic ray muons crossing the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. For this measurement we have used a transition radiation…

hep-ex1998★ 364 cited

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-induced upgoing muon flux using MACRO

The MACRO Collaboration, M. Ambrosio et al

We present a measurement of the flux of neutrino-induced upgoing muons (<E_nu>~100 GeV) using the MACRO detector. The ratio of the number of observed to expected events integrated…