Search for stellar gravitational collapses with the MACRO detector Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present the final results of the search for stellar gravitational collapses obtained by the MACRO experiment. The detector was active for a stellar collapse search for more than 11 years and it was sensitive to collapses occurring all over in our galaxy for 8.6 years. A real time system for a prompt recognition of neutrino bursts was developed and was operating on-line for almost the whole life of the experiment. No signal compatible with a neutrino burst from a galactic supernova was observed. Springer-Verlag / Societ Italiana di Fisica 2004.

published proceedings

  • EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C

author list (cited authors)

  • Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., Barish, B. C., Battistoni, G., ... Webb, R.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Ambrosio, M||Antolini, R||Baldini, A||Barbarino, GC||Barish, BC||Battistoni, G||Bellotti, R||Bemporad, C||Bernardini, P||Bilokon, H||Bloise, C||Bower, C||Brigida, M||Bussino, S||Cafagna, F||Campana, D||Carboni, M||Cecchini, S||Cei, F||Chiarella, V||Choudhary, BC||Coutu, S||Cozzi, M||De Cataldo, G||Dekhissi, H||De Marzo, C||De Mitri, I||Derkaoui, J||De Vincenzi, M||Di Credico, A||Favuzzi, C||Forti, C||Fusco, P||Giacomelli, G||Giannini, G||Giglietto, N||Giorgini, M||Grassi, M||Grillo, A||Gustavino, C||Habig, A||Hanson, K||Heinz, R||Iarocci, E||Katsavounidis, E||Katsavounidis, I||Kearns, E||Kim, H||Kyriazopoulou, S||Lamanna, E||Lane, C||Levin, DS||Lipari, P||Longley, NP||Longo, MJ||Loparco, F||Maaroufi, F||Mancarella, G||Mandrioli, G||Margiotta, A||Marini, A||Martello, D||Marzari-Chiesa, A||Mazziotta, MN||Michael, DG||Monacelli, P||Montaruli, T||Monteno, M||Mufson, S||Musser, J||Nicolo, D||Nolty, R||Orth, C||Osteria, G||Palamara, O||Patera, V||Patrizii, L||Pazzi, R||Peck, CW||Perrone, L||Petrera, S||Popa, V||Rai

publication date

  • January 2004