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20132024
most citedExperimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun

225 citations · 865 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +311

Experiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, ne…

hep-ex2022★ 57 cited

Improved measurement of solar neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen cycle by Borexino and its implications for the Standard Solar Model

S. Appel, Z. Bagdasarian, D. Basilico +79

We present an improved measurement of the CNO solar neutrino interaction rate at Earth obtained with the complete Borexino Phase-III dataset. The measured rate R = $6.7…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

Independent determination of the Earth's orbital parameters with solar neutrinos in Borexino

S. Appel, Z. Bagdasarian, D. Basilico +76

Since the beginning of 2012, the Borexino collaboration has been reporting precision measurements of the solar neutrino fluxes, emitted in the proton-proton chain and in the Carbon…

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

Search for Low-Energy Signals from Fast Radio Bursts with the Borexino Detector

S. Appel, Z. Bagdasarian, D. Basilico +77

The search for neutrino events in correlation with several of the most intense fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been performed using the Borexino data. We have searched for signals wit…

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos

P. Agnes, S. Albergo, I. F. M. Albuquerque +273

Future liquid-argon DarkSide-20k and ARGO detectors, designed for direct dark matter search, will be sensitive also to core-collapse supernova neutrinos, via coherent elastic neutr…

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…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 23 cited

Rydberg-positronium velocity and self-ionization studies in 1T magnetic field and cryogenic environment

M. Antonello, A. Belov, G. Bonomi R. S. Brusa +43

We characterized the pulsed Rydberg-positronium production inside the AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) apparatus in view of antihydrogen formati…

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…

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…

hep-ex2017★ 9 cited

Measurement of antiproton annihilation on Cu, Ag and Au with emulsion films

S. Aghion, C. Amsler, A. Ariga +69

The characteristics of low energy antiproton annihilations on nuclei (e.g. hadronization and product multiplicities) are not well known, and Monte Carlo simulation packages that us…

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…

hep-ex2016★ 1 cited

The Main Results of the Borexino Experiment

A. Derbin, V. Muratova, M. Agostini +96

The main physical results on the registration of solar neutrinos and the search for rare processes obtained by the Borexino collaboration to date are presented.

hep-ex2015★ 56 cited

A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino

Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +95

Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio-purity of the scintilla…

hep-ex2015★ 14 cited

Measurement of neutrino flux from the primary proton--proton fusion process in the Sun with Borexino detector

O. Y. Smirnov, M. Agostini, S. Appel +94

Neutrino produced in a chain of nuclear reactions in the Sun starting from the fusion of two protons, for the first time has been detected in a real-time detector in spectrometric…

hep-ex2015★ 121 cited

Spectroscopy of geo-neutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data

Borexino collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +99

We report an improved geo-neutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking. The present exposure is protonyr. Assuming a chondrit…

hep-ex2014★ 3 cited

Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future

D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +85

The Borexino experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is an organic liquid scintillator detector conceived for the real time spectroscopy of low energy solar neut…

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

Annihilation of low energy antiprotons in silicon

S. Aghion, O. Ahlén, A. S. Belov +56

The goal of the AEIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to measure directly the Earth's gravitational acceleration on antimatter. To achiev…

physics.ins-det2013★ 2 cited

SOX: Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino

Borexino Collaboration

The very low radioactive background of the Borexino detector, its large size, and the well proved capability to detect both low energy neutrino and anti-neutrino make an ideal case…