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Test of Electric Charge Conservation with Borexino.

Authors :
Agostini M
Appel S
Bellini G
Benziger J
Bick D
Bonfini G
Bravo D
Caccianiga B
Calaprice F
Caminata A
Cavalcante P
Chepurnov A
D'Angelo D
Davini S
Derbin A
Di Noto L
Drachnev I
Empl A
Etenko A
Fomenko K
Franco D
Gabriele F
Galbiati C
Ghiano C
Giammarchi M
Goeger-Neff M
Goretti A
Gromov M
Hagner C
Hungerford E
Ianni A
Ianni A
Jedrzejczak K
Kaiser M
Kobychev V
Korablev D
Korga G
Kryn D
Laubenstein M
Lehnert B
Litvinovich E
Lombardi F
Lombardi P
Ludhova L
Lukyanchenko G
Machulin I
Manecki S
Maneschg W
Marcocci S
Meroni E
Meyer M
Miramonti L
Misiaszek M
Montuschi M
Mosteiro P
Muratova V
Neumair B
Oberauer L
Obolensky M
Ortica F
Otis K
Pallavicini M
Papp L
Perasso L
Pocar A
Ranucci G
Razeto A
Re A
Romani A
Roncin R
Rossi N
Schönert S
Semenov D
Simgen H
Skorokhvatov M
Smirnov O
Sotnikov A
Sukhotin S
Suvorov Y
Tartaglia R
Testera G
Thurn J
Toropova M
Unzhakov E
Vishneva A
Vogelaar RB
von Feilitzsch F
Wang H
Weinz S
Winter J
Wojcik M
Wurm M
Yokley Z
Zaimidoroga O
Zavatarelli S
Zuber K
Zuzel G
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2015 Dec 04; Vol. 115 (23), pp. 231802. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 03.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

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 scintillator, and to the well understood detector response at low energy, a new limit on the stability of the electron for decay into a neutrino and a single monoenergetic photon was obtained. This new bound, τ≥6.6×10^{28}  yr at 90% C.L., is 2 orders of magnitude better than the previous limit.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
115
Issue :
23
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
26684111
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.231802