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Response to a critique of the Borexino result in "A new experimental limit for the stability of the electron" by H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, I.V. Krivosheina and I.V. Titkova (2007) |
- Back, H.O.,
- Balata, M.,
- De Bari, A.,
- Beau, T.,
- De Bellefon, A.,
- Bellini, G.,
- Benziger, J.,
- Bonetti, S.,
- Buck, C.,
- Caccianiga, B.,
- Cadonati, L.,
- Calaprice, F.,
- Cecchet, G.,
- Chen, M.,
- Di Credico, A.,
- Dadoun, O.,
- D'Angelo, D.,
- Derbin, A.,
- Deutsch, M.,
- Elisei, F.,
- Etenko, A.,
- Von Feilitzsch, F.,
- Fernholz, R.,
- Ford, R.,
- Franco, D.,
- Freudiger, B.,
- Galbiati, C.,
- Gatti, F.,
- Gazzana, S.,
- Giammarchi, M.G.,
- Giugni, D.,
- Goeger-Neff, M.,
- Goretti, A.,
- Grieb, C.,
- Hagner, C.,
- Hampel, W.,
- Harding, E.,
- Hartmann, F.X.,
- Heusser, G.,
- Ianni, A.,
- Ianni, A.M.,
- De Kerret, H.,
- Kiko, J.,
- Kirsten, T.,
- Korga, G.,
- Korschinek, G.,
- Kozlov, Y.,
- Kryn, D.,
- Laubenstein, M.,
- Lendvai, C.,
- Lombardi, P.,
- Malvezzi, S.,
- Maneira, J.,
- Manno, I.,
- Manuzio, D.,
- Manuzio, G.,
- Masetti, F.,
- Martemianov, A.,
- Mazzucato, U.,
- McCarty, K.,
- Meroni, E.,
- Miramonti, L.,
- Monzani, M.E.,
- Musico, P.,
- Niedermeier, L.,
- Oberauer, L.,
- Obolensky, M.,
- Ortica, F.,
- Pallavicini, M.,
- Papp, L.,
- Perasso, L.,
- Pocar, A.,
- Raghavan, R.S.,
- Ranucci, G.,
- Rau, W.,
- Razeto, A.,
- Resconi, E.,
- Sabelnikov, A.,
- Salvo, C.,
- Scardaoni, R.,
- Schoenert, S.,
- Seitz, E.,
- Simgen, H.,
- Shutt, T.,
- Skorokhvatov, M.,
- Smirnov, O.,
- Sonnenschein, A.,
- Sotnikov, A.,
- Sukhotin, S.,
- Tarasenkov, V.,
- Tartaglia, R.,
- Testera, G.,
- Vignaud, D.,
- Vogelaar, R.B.,
- Vyrodov, V.,
- Wojcik, M.,
- Zaimidoroga, O.,
- Zuzel, G.,
- Golubchikov, A.,
- Hagner, T.,
- Hampel, W.,
- Machulin, I.,
- Neder, H.,
- Seidel, H.,
- Vitale, S.
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A recently published article by Klapdor-Kleingrothaus et al. critiques the limit on the stability of the electron obtained by the Borexino collaboration. We respond here to the criticisms raised by Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and his colleagues, and re-establish that our result is based on very conservative premises and that the "indication of a signal of 1.4 $\sigma$" for the decay of the electron in the $\gamma+\nu$ channel, reported by Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and colleagues, is excluded by the Borexino result. |
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