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1. Solar neutrino measurements using the full data period of Super-Kamiokande-IV

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Hosokawa, K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kanemura, Y., Kaneshima, R., Kashiwagi, Y., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Miki, S., Mine, S., Miura, M., Mochizuki, T., Moriyama, S., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Noguchi, Y., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Sato, K., Sekiya, H., Shiba, H., Shimizu, K., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Watanabe, S., Yano, T., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Tomiya, T., Wang, R., Wang, X., Yoshida, S., Bravo-Berguno, D., Fernandez, P., Labarga, L., Ospina, N., Zaldivar, B., Pointon, B. W., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Yankelevich, A., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Jang, M. C., Kim, J. Y., Lee, S., Lim, I. T., Moon, D. H., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Beauchene, A., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Rogly, R., Quilain, B., Santos, A., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Machado, L. N., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Iovine, N., Choi, K., Cao, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Prouse, N., Marin, D., Scott, M., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., De Rosa, G., Langella, A., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Mattiazzi, M., Ludovici, L., Gonin, M., Perisse, L., Pronost, G., Fujisawa, C., Maekawa, Y., Nishimura, Y., Okazaki, R., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Boschi, T., Bhuiyan, N., Burton, G. T., Gao, J., Goldsack, A., Katori, T., Di Lodovico, F., Migenda, J., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Ramsden, R. M., Taani, M., Xie, Z., Zsoldos, S., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Kotsar, Y., Miyabe, H., Ozaki, H., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takagi, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Zhong, H., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Feng, L., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Hu, J. R., Hu, Z., Jiang, M., Kawaue, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Jenkins, S. J., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tarrant, A., Wilking, M. J., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Murase, M., Ninomiya, K., Niwa, T., Tsukada, M., Yoshioka, Y., Frankiewicz, K., Lagoda, J., Mandal, M., Mijakowski, P., Prabhu, Y. S., Zalipska, J., Jiang, J., Jia, M., Jung, C. K., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Shi, W., Vilela, C., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Harada, M., Hino, Y., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Kitagawa, H., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Nakanishi, F., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Tada, T., Tano, T., Xu, C., Yamaguchi, R., Ishizuka, T., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Samani, S., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Holin, A. M., Nova, F., Jung, S., Yang, B., Yang, J. Y., Yoo, J., Fannon, J. E. P., Kneale, L., Malek, M., McElwee, J. M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Wilson, S. T., Okazawa, H., Lakshmi, S. M., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Kwon, E., Seo, J. W., Yu, I., Ichikawa, A. K., Tairahune, S., Nishijima, K., Eguchi, A., Iwamoto, K., Nakagiri, K., Nakajima, Y., Ogawa, N., Shima, S., Watanabe, E., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Fujita, S., Jesus-Valls, C., Junjie, X., Ming, T. K., de Perio, P., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Vagins, M. R., Izumiyama, S., Kuze, M., Matsumoto, R., Okajima, Y., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Ito, H., Kinoshita, T., Ohta, K., Ommura, Y., Shinoki, M., Shigeta, N., Suganuma, T., Yamaguchi, K., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Gaur, R., Gousy-Leblanc, V., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., Li, X., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Zhang, B., Berkman, S., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Boyd, S. B., Edwards, R., Hadley, D., Nicholson, M., O'Flaherty, M., Richards, B., Ali, A., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Amanai, S., Marti, Ll., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Sano, S., Sasaki, R., Suzuki, S., and Wada, K.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: An analysis of solar neutrino data from the fourth phase of Super-Kamiokande~(SK-IV) from October 2008 to May 2018 is performed and the results are presented. The observation time of the data set of SK-IV corresponds to $2970$~days and the total live time for all four phases is $5805$~days. For more precise solar neutrino measurements, several improvements are applied in this analysis: lowering the data acquisition threshold in May 2015, further reduction of the spallation background using neutron clustering events, precise energy reconstruction considering the time variation of the PMT gain. The observed number of solar neutrino events in $3.49$--$19.49$ MeV electron kinetic energy region during SK-IV is $65,443^{+390}_{-388}\,(\mathrm{stat.})\pm 925\,(\mathrm{syst.})$ events. Corresponding $\mathrm{^{8}B}$ solar neutrino flux is $(2.314 \pm 0.014\, \rm{(stat.)} \pm 0.040 \, \rm{(syst.)}) \times 10^{6}~\mathrm{cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$, assuming a pure electron-neutrino flavor component without neutrino oscillations. The flux combined with all SK phases up to SK-IV is $(2.336 \pm 0.011\, \rm{(stat.)} \pm 0.043 \, \rm{(syst.)}) \times 10^{6}~\mathrm{cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$. Based on the neutrino oscillation analysis from all solar experiments, including the SK $5805$~days data set, the best-fit neutrino oscillation parameters are $\rm{sin^{2} \theta_{12,\,solar}} = 0.306 \pm 0.013 $ and $\Delta m^{2}_{21,\,\mathrm{solar}} = (6.10^{+ 0.95}_{-0.81}) \times 10^{-5}~\rm{eV}^{2}$, with a deviation of about 1.5$\sigma$ from the $\Delta m^{2}_{21}$ parameter obtained by KamLAND. The best-fit neutrino oscillation parameters obtained from all solar experiments and KamLAND are $\sin^{2} \theta_{12,\,\mathrm{global}} = 0.307 \pm 0.012 $ and $\Delta m^{2}_{21,\,\mathrm{global}} = (7.50^{+ 0.19}_{-0.18}) \times 10^{-5}~\rm{eV}^{2}$., Comment: 47 pages, 61 figures
Published: 2023
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2. Neutron Tagging following Atmospheric Neutrino Events in a Water Cherenkov Detector

Author: Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kanemura, Y., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Miki, S., Mine, S., Miura, M., Mochizuki, T., Moriyama, S., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Sato, K., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Watanabe, S., Yano, T., Yokozawa, T., Han, S., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Megias, G. D., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Zaldivar, B., Goldhaber, M., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Sussman, S., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Carminati, G., Elnimr, M., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Akiri, T., Bodur, B., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Marin, D., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., De Rosa, G., Machado, L. N., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Gonin, M., Pronost, G., Maekawa, Y., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Migenda, J., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Taani, M., Zsoldos, S., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Kotsar, Y., Miyabe, H., Ozaki, H., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Bronner, C., Feng, J., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Murakami, A., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Tateishi, K., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Fernandez, P., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Mitsuka, G., Murase, M., Muto, F., Niwa, T., Tsukada, T. Suzuki M., Frankiewicz, K., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Jiang, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Harada, M., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Kitagawa, H., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Mori, T., Nagata, H., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Yamaguchi, R., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Goldsack, A., Samani, S., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Tacik, R., Yang, J. Y., Cole, A., Jenkins, S. J., Malek, M., McElwee, J. M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Ichikawa, A. K., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Calland, R. G., de Perio, P., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Vagins, M. R., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Iwamoto, K., Nakajima, Y., Ogawa, N., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Hamabe, D., Izumiyama, S., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Ito, H., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Akutsu, R., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Zhang, Y., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Connolly, K., Wilkes, R. J., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Hadley, D., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Marti, Ll., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Sano, S., and Sasaki, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present the development of neutron-tagging techniques in Super-Kamiokande IV using a neural network analysis. The detection efficiency of neutron capture on hydrogen is estimated to be 26%, with a mis-tag rate of 0.016 per neutrino event. The uncertainty of the tagging efficiency is estimated to be 9.0%. Measurement of the tagging efficiency with data from an Americium-Beryllium calibration agrees with this value within 10%. The tagging procedure was performed on 3,244.4 days of SK-IV atmospheric neutrino data, identifying 18,091 neutrons in 26,473 neutrino events. The fitted neutron capture lifetime was measured as 218 \pm 9 \mu s.
Published: 2022
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3. Testing Non-Standard Interactions Between Solar Neutrinos and Quarks with Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Weatherly, P., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kanemura, Y., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Miki, S., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sato, K., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Wang, X., Watanabe, S., Yano, T., Han, S., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Megias, G. D., Labarga, L., Zaldivar, B., Pointon, B. W., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Sussman, S., Wan, L., Wester, T., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Bian, J., Elnimr, M., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Yankelevich, A., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Li, Z., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Giampaolo, A., Hedri, S. El, Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Santos, A. D., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Cao, S., Amey, J., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Martin, D., Scott, M., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Mattiazzi, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Gonin, M., Maekawa, Y., Nishimura, Y., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Gao, J., Katori, T., Migenda, J., Taani, M., Zsoldos, S., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Kotsar, Y., Miyabe, H., Ozaki, H., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Fernandez, P., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Murase, M., Frankiewicz, K., Lagoda, J., Lakshmi, S. M., Mandal, M., Mijakowski, P., Prabhu, Y. S., Zalipska, J., Jia, M., Jiang, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Harada, M., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Kitagawa, H., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Goldsack, A., Samani, S., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Tacik, R., Nova, F., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., Malek, M., McElwee, J. M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Seo, J. W., Yu, I., Ichikawa, A., Nakamura, K. D., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Nakagiri, K., Nakajima, Y., Suda, Y., Taniuchi, N., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Izumiyama, S., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Ito, H., Kinoshita, T., Matsumoto, R., Shinoki, M., Suganuma, T., Yonenaga, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Akutsu, R., de Perio, P., Gousy-Leblanc, V., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Zhang, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Hadley, D., Nicholson, M., O'Flaherty, M., Richards, B., Ali, A., Jamieson, B., Giorgio, P., Marti, Ll., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Sano, S., Sasaki, R., and Wada, K.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) between neutrinos and matter affect the neutrino flavor oscillations. Due to the high matter density in the core of the Sun, solar neutrinos are suited to probe these interactions. Using the $277$ kton-yr exposure of Super-Kamiokande to $^{8}$B solar neutrinos, we search for the presence of NSI. Our data favors the presence of NSI with down quarks at 1.8$\sigma$, and with up quarks at 1.6$\sigma$, with the best fit NSI parameters being ($\epsilon_{11}^{d},\epsilon_{12}^{d}$) = (-3.3, -3.1) for $d$-quarks and ($\epsilon_{11}^{u},\epsilon_{12}^{u}$) = (-2.5, -3.1) for $u$-quarks. After combining with data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and Borexino, the significance increases by 0.1$\sigma$., Comment: Author: Pierce Weatherly 25 pages. To be submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2022

4. Search for Tens of MeV Neutrinos associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Orii, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Megias, G. D., Bravo-Berguno, D., Labarga, L., Marti, Ll., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Bernard, L., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Jakkapu, M., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Taani, M., Zsoldos, S., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Ichikawa, A. K., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Fernandez, P., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Goldsack, A., Samani, S., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., Malek, M., McElwee, J. M., Stone, O., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Izumiyama, S., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Akutsu, R., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for neutrinos produced in coincidence with Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRB) was conducted with the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. Between December 2008 and March 2017, the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network recorded 2208 GRBs that occurred during normal SK operation. Several time windows around each GRB were used to search for coincident neutrino events. No statistically significant signal in excess of the estimated backgrounds was detected. The $\bar\nu_e$ fluence in the range from 8 MeV to 100 MeV in positron total energy for $\bar\nu_e+p\rightarrow e^{+}+n$ was found to be less than $\rm 5.07\times10^5$ cm$^{-2}$ per GRB in 90\% C.L. Upper bounds on the fluence as a function of neutrino energy were also obtained., Comment: 29 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables, accepted by PTEP
Published: 2021

5. Search for proton decay via $p\to e^+\pi^0$ and $p\to \mu^+\pi^0$ with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Takenaka, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguno, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Zsoldos, S., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., McElwee, J. M., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have searched for proton decay via $p\to e^+\pi^0$ and $p\to \mu^+\pi^0$ modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresponds to 450 kton$\cdot$years exposure. We have accumulated about 25% more livetime and enlarged the fiducial volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector from 22.5 kton to 27.2 kton for this analysis, so that 144 kton$\cdot$years of data, including 78 kton$\cdot$years of additional fiducial volume data, has been newly analyzed. No candidates have been found for $p\to e^+\pi^0$ and one candidate remains for $p\to \mu^+\pi^0$ in the conventional 22.5 kton fiducial volume and it is consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background prediction. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes: $\tau/B(p\to e^+\pi^0) > 2.4 \times 10^{34}$ years and $\tau/B(p\to \mu^+\pi^0) > 1.6 \times 10^{34}$ years at 90% confidence level., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020
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6. Search for Astronomical Neutrinos from Blazar TXS0506+056 in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Hagiwara, K., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguno, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Niwa, T., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Richards, B., Zsoldos, S., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., and Pintaudi, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report a search for astronomical neutrinos in the energy region from several GeV to TeV in the direction of the blazar TXS0506+056 using the Super-Kamiokande detector following the detection of a 100 TeV neutrino from the same location by the IceCube collaboration. Using Super-Kamiokande neutrino data across several data samples observed from April 1996 to February 2018 we have searched for both a total excess above known backgrounds across the entire period as well as localized excesses on smaller time scales in that interval. No significant excess nor significant variation in the observed event rate are found in the blazar direction. Upper limits are placed on the electron and muon neutrino fluxes at 90\% confidence level as $6.03 \times 10^{-7}$ and $4.52 \times 10^{-7}$ to $9.26 \times 10^{-10}$ [${\rm erg}/{\rm cm}^2/{\rm s}$], respectively.
Published: 2019
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7. Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Anti-neutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission

Author: Simpson, C., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Ito, H., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Sussman, S., Berkman, S., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Berardi, V., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murrase, M., Niwa, T., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Cook, L., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Richards, B., Zsoldos, S., Kim, S. B., Tacik, R., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., and Pintaudi, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Supernova detection is a major objective of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. In the next stage of SK (SK-Gd), gadolinium (Gd) sulfate will be added to the detector, which will improve the ability of the detector to identify neutrons. A core-collapse supernova will be preceded by an increasing flux of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, from thermal and weak nuclear processes in the star, over a timescale of hours; some of which may be detected at SK-Gd. This could provide an early warning of an imminent core-collapse supernova, hours earlier than the detection of the neutrinos from core collapse. Electron anti-neutrino detection will rely on inverse beta decay events below the usual analysis energy threshold of SK, so Gd loading is vital to reduce backgrounds while maximising detection efficiency. Assuming normal neutrino mass ordering, more than 200 events could be detected in the final 12 hours before core collapse for a 15-25 solar mass star at around 200 pc, which is representative of the nearest red supergiant to Earth, $\mathrm{\alpha}$Ori (Betelgeuse). At a statistical false alarm rate of 1 per century, detection could be up to 10 hours before core collapse, and a pre-supernova star could be detected by SK-Gd up to 600 pc away. A pre-supernova alert could be provided to the astrophysics community following gadolinium loading., Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures. Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2019
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8. Measurement of neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasi-elastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Wan, L., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sussman, S., Berkman, S., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Ali, A., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murrase, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutral current (NC) interactions of atmospheric neutrinos on oxygen form one of the major backgrounds in the search for supernova relic neutrinos with water-based Cherenkov detectors. The NC channel is dominated by neutrino quasi-elastic (NCQE) scattering off nucleons inside $^{16}$O nuclei. In this paper we report the first measurement of NCQE cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande (SK). The measurement used 2,778 live days of SK-IV data with a fiducial volume of 22.5 kiloton water. Within the visible energy window of 7.5-29.5 MeV, we observed $117$ events compared to the expected $71.9$ NCQE signal and $53.1$ background events. Weighted by the atmospheric neutrino spectrum from 160 MeV to 10 GeV, the flux averaged NCQE cross section is measured to be $(1.01\pm0.17(\text{stat.})^{+0.78}_{-0.30}(\text{sys.}))\times10^{-38}$ cm$^2$., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRD
Published: 2019
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9. Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Analysis With Improved Event Reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande IV

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Jiang, M., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sussman, S., Berkman, S., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Ali, A., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murrase, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., Wan, L., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A new event reconstruction algorithm based on a maximum likelihood method has been developed for Super-Kamiokande. Its improved kinematic and particle identification capabilities enable the analysis of atmospheric neutrino data in a detector volume 32% larger than previous analyses and increases sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy. Analysis of a 253.9 kton-year exposure of the Super-Kamiokande IV atmospheric neutrino data has yielded a weak preference for the normal hierarchy, disfavoring the inverted hierarchy at 74% assuming oscillations at the best fit of the analysis., Comment: 42 pages, 28 figures, submitted to PTEP
Published: 2019
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10. Dinucleon and Nucleon Decay to Two-Body Final States with no Hadrons in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Sussman, S., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Berkman, S., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Ali, A., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murrase, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., Wan, L., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using 0.37 megaton$\cdot$years of exposure from the Super-Kamiokande detector, we search for 10 dinucleon and nucleon decay modes that have a two-body final state with no hadrons. These baryon and lepton number violating modes have the potential to probe theories of unification and baryogenesis. For five of these modes the searches are novel, and for the other five modes we improve the limits by more than one order of magnitude. No significant evidence for dinucleon or nucleon decay is observed and we set lower limits on the partial lifetime of oxygen nuclei and on the nucleon partial lifetime that are above $4\times 10^{33}$ years for oxygen via the dinucleon decay modes and up to about $4 \times 10^{34}$ years for nucleons via the single nucleon decay modes.
Published: 2018

11. Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande associated with the GW170817 neutron-star merger

Author: Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Bian, J., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, Th. A., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Ali, A., Collazuol, G., Ludovici, L., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Viela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report the results of a neutrino search in Super-Kamiokande for coincident signals with the first detected gravitational wave produced by a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, which was followed by a short gamma-ray burst, GRB170817A, and a kilonova/macronova. We searched for coincident neutrino events in the range from 3.5 MeV to $\sim$100 PeV, in a time window $\pm$500 seconds around the gravitational wave detection time, as well as during a 14-day period after the detection. No significant neutrino signal was observed for either time window. We calculated 90% confidence level upper limits on the neutrino fluence for GW170817. From the upward-going-muon events in the energy region above 1.6 GeV, the neutrino fluence limit is $16.0^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$ ($21.3^{+1.1}_{-0.8}$) cm$^{-2}$ for muon neutrinos (muon antineutrinos), with an error range of $\pm5^{\circ}$ around the zenith angle of NGC4993, and the energy spectrum is under the assumption of an index of $-2$. The fluence limit for neutrino energies less than 100 MeV, for which the emission mechanism would be different than for higher-energy neutrinos, is also calculated. It is $6.6 \times 10^7$ cm$^{-2}$ for anti-electron neutrinos under the assumption of a Fermi-Dirac spectrum with average energy of 20 MeV., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2018
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12. A Measurement of the Tau Neutrino Cross Section in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Li, Z., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Fernandez, P., Labarga, L., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Sedgwick, S. M., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Minamino, A., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using 5,326 days of atmospheric neutrino data, a search for atmospheric tau neutrino appearance has been performed in the Super-Kamiokande experiment. Super-Kamiokande measures the tau normalization to be 1.47$\pm$0.32 under the assumption of normal neutrino hierarchy, relative to the expectation of unity with neutrino oscillation. The result excludes the hypothesis of no-tau-appearance with a significance level of 4.6$\sigma$. The inclusive charged-current tau neutrino cross section averaged by the tau neutrino flux at Super-Kamiokande is measured to be $(0.94\pm0.20)\times 10^{-38}$ cm$^{2}$. The measurement is consistent with the Standard Model prediction, agreeing to within 1.5$\sigma$.
Published: 2017
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13. Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting With Electrons in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Kachulis, C., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk., F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Wascko, Y. Uchida. M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Quilain, B., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A search for boosted dark matter using 161.9 kiloton-years of Super-Kamiokande IV data is presented. We search for an excess of elastically scattered electrons above the atmospheric neutrino background, with a visible energy between 100 MeV and 1 TeV, pointing back to the Galactic Center or the Sun. No such excess is observed. Limits on boosted dark matter event rates in multiple angular cones around the Galactic Center and Sun are calculated. Limits are also calculated for a baseline model of boosted dark matter produced from cold dark matter annihilation or decay.
Published: 2017
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14. Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with external constraints in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Murase, M., Muto, F., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Quilain, B., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., de Perio, P., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J., and Minamino, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: An analysis of atmospheric neutrino data from all four run periods of \superk optimized for sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy is presented. Confidence intervals for $\Delta m^2_{32}$, $\sin^2 \theta_{23}$, $\sin^2 \theta_{13}$ and $\delta_{CP}$ are presented for normal neutrino mass hierarchy and inverted neutrino mass hierarchy hypotheses based on atmospheric neutrino data alone. Additional constraints from reactor data on $\theta_{13}$ and from published binned T2K data on muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance are added to the atmospheric neutrino fit to give enhanced constraints on the above parameters. Over the range of parameters allowed at 90% confidence level, the normal mass hierarchy is favored by between 91.5% and 94.5% based on the combined result., Comment: 22 pages, 29 figures, final version submitted for publication
Published: 2017
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15. Search for an excess of events in the Super-Kamiokande detector in the directions of the astrophysical neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Pronost, G., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Minamino, A., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Quilain, B., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present the results of a search in the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector for excesses of neutrinos with energies above a few GeV that are in the direction of the track events reported in IceCube. Data from all SK phases (SK-I through SK-IV) were used, spanning a period from April 1996 to April 2016 and corresponding to an exposure of 225 kilotonne-years . We considered the 14 IceCube track events from a data set with 1347 livetime days taken from 2010 to 2014. We use Poisson counting to determine if there is an excess of neutrinos detected in SK in a 10 degree search cone (5 degrees for the highest energy data set) around the reconstructed direction of the IceCube event. No significant excess was found in any of the search directions we examined. We also looked for coincidences with a recently reported IceCube multiplet event. No events were detected within a $\pm$ 500 s time window around the first detected event, and no significant excess was seen from that direction over the lifetime of SK., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, Matches version published in Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2017
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16. Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande associated with Gravitational Wave Events GW150914 and GW151226

Author: Abe, K., Haga, K., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hil, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Suzuki, K., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the results from a search in Super-Kamiokande for neutrino signals coincident with the first detected gravitational wave events, GW150914 and GW151226, using a neutrino energy range from 3.5 MeV to 100 PeV. We searched for coincident neutrino events within a time window of $\pm$500 seconds around the gravitational wave detection time. Four neutrino candidates are found for GW150914 and no candidates are found for GW151226. The remaining neutrino candidates are consistent with the expected background events. We calculated the 90\% confidence level upper limits on the combined neutrino fluence for both gravitational wave events, which depends on event energy and topologies. Considering the upward going muon data set (1.6 GeV - 100 PeV) the neutrino fluence limit for each gravitational wave event is 14 - 37 (19 - 50) cm$^{-2}$ for muon neutrinos (muon antineutrinos), depending on the zenith angle of the event. In the other data sets, the combined fluence limits for both gravitational wave events range from 2.4$\times 10^{4}$ to 7.0$\times 10^{9}$ cm$^{-2}$., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2016
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17. Solar Neutrino Measurements in Super-Kamiokande-IV

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Takenaga, Y., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Yokozawa, T., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Nishimura, Y., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, 32 J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, 32 L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Akiri, T., Albert, J. B., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O'Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Nakano, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Patel, N. D., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Wendell, R. A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Muto, F., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Taylor, I., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Takeuchi, J., Yamaguchi, R., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Obayashi, Y., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Nantais, C. M., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Sui, H., Wan, L., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Upgraded electronics, improved water system dynamics, better calibration and analysis techniques allowed Super-Kamiokande-IV to clearly observe very low-energy 8B solar neutrino interactions, with recoil electron kinetic energies as low as 3.49 MeV. Super-Kamiokande-IV data-taking began in September of 2008; this paper includes data until February 2014, a total livetime of 1664 days. The measured solar neutrino flux is (2.308+-0.020(stat.) + 0.039-0.040(syst.)) x 106/(cm2sec) assuming no oscillations. The observed recoil electron energy spectrum is consistent with no distortions due to neutrino oscillations. An extended maximum likelihood fit to the amplitude of the expected solar zenith angle variation of the neutrino-electron elastic scattering rate in SK-IV results in a day/night asymmetry of (-3.6+-1.6(stat.)+-0.6(syst.))%. The SK-IV solar neutrino data determine the solar mixing angle as sin2 theta_12 = 0.327+0.026-0.031, all SK solar data (SK-I, SK-II, SK III and SKIV) measures this angle to be sin2 theta_12 = 0.334+0.027-0.023, the determined mass-squared splitting is Delta m2_21 = 4.8+1.5-0.8 x10-5 eV2., Comment: Submitted to Physical Review D; 23 pages, 40 figures
Published: 2016
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18. Real-Time Supernova Neutrino Burst Monitor at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Wendell, R. A., Yokozawa, T., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Tateishi, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Wilking, M. J., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a real-time supernova neutrino burst monitor at Super-Kamiokande (SK). Detecting supernova explosions by neutrinos in real time is crucial for giving a clear picture of the explosion mechanism. Since the neutrinos are expected to come earlier than light, a fast broadcasting of the detection may give astronomers a chance to make electromagnetic radiation observations of the explosions right at the onset. The role of the monitor includes a fast announcement of the neutrino burst detection to the world and a determination of the supernova direction. We present the online neutrino burst detection system and studies of the direction determination accuracy based on simulations at SK., Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2016
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19. Measurements of the atmospheric neutrino flux by Super-Kamiokande: energy spectra, geomagnetic effects, and solar modulation

Author: Richard, E., Okumura, K., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Akutsu, R., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., OSullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Cao, S. V., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A comprehensive study on the atmospheric neutrino flux in the energy region from sub-GeV up to several TeV using the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector is presented in this paper. The energy and azimuthal spectra of the atmospheric ${\nu}_e+{\bar{\nu}}_e$ and ${\nu}_{\mu}+{\bar{\nu}}_{\mu}$ fluxes are measured. The energy spectra are obtained using an iterative unfolding method by combining various event topologies with differing energy responses. The azimuthal spectra depending on energy and zenith angle, and their modulation by geomagnetic effects, are also studied. A predicted east-west asymmetry is observed in both the ${\nu}_e$ and ${\nu}_{\mu}$ samples at 8.0 {\sigma} and 6.0 {\sigma} significance, respectively, and an indication that the asymmetry dipole angle changes depending on the zenith angle was seen at the 2.2 {\sigma} level. The measured energy and azimuthal spectra are consistent with the current flux models within the estimated systematic uncertainties. A study of the long-term correlation between the atmospheric neutrino flux and the solar magnetic activity cycle is also performed, and a weak indication of a correlation was seen at the 1.1 {\sigma} level, using SK I-IV data spanning a 20 year period. For particularly strong solar activity periods known as Forbush decreases, no theoretical prediction is available, but a deviation below the typical neutrino event rate is seen at the 2.4 {\sigma} level., Comment: 30 pages, 31 figures
Published: 2015
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20. Search for Nucleon and Dinucleon Decays with an Invisible Particle and a Charged Lepton in the Final State at the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

Author: Takhistov, V., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Gustafson, J., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Himmel, A., Li, Z., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: Search results for nucleon decays $p \rightarrow e^+X$, $p \rightarrow \mu^+X$, $n \rightarrow \nu\gamma$ (where $X$ is an invisible, massless particle) as well as dinucleon decays $np \rightarrow e^+\nu$, $np \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $np \rightarrow \tau^+\nu$ in the Super-Kamiokande experiment are presented. Using single-ring data from an exposure of 273.4 kton $\cdot$ years, a search for these decays yields a result consistent with no signal. Accordingly, lower limits on the partial lifetimes of $\tau_{p \rightarrow e^+X} > 7.9 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{p \rightarrow \mu^+X} > 4.1 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{n \rightarrow \nu\gamma} > 5.5 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{np \rightarrow e^+\nu} > 2.6 \times 10^{32}$ years, $\tau_{np \rightarrow \mu^+\nu} > 2.2 \times 10^{32}$ years and $\tau_{np \rightarrow \tau^+\nu} > 2.9 \times 10^{31}$ years at a $90 \% $ confidence level are obtained. Some of these searches are novel., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections, length shortened, matches published version
Published: 2015
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21. Search for dinucleon decay into pions at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Gustafson, J., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Suzuki, T. TsukamotoA. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Palomino, J. L., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for dinucleon decay into pions with the Super-Kamiokande detector has been performed with an exposure of 282.1 kiloton-years. Dinucleon decay is a process that violates baryon number by two units. We present the first search for dinucleon decay to pions in a large water Cherenkov detector. The modes $^{16}$O$(pp) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$C$\pi^{+}\pi^{+}$, $^{16}$O$(pn) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$N$\pi^{+}\pi^{0}$, and $^{16}$O$(nn) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$O$\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$ are investigated. No significant excess in the Super-Kamiokande data has been found, so a lower limit on the lifetime of the process per oxygen nucleus is determined. These limits are: $\tau_{pp\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{+}} > 7.22 \times 10^{31}$ years, $\tau_{pn\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{0}} > 1.70 \times 10^{32}$ years, and $\tau_{nn\rightarrow\pi^{0}\pi^{0}} > 4.04 \times 10^{32}$ years. The lower limits on each mode are about two orders of magnitude better than previous limits from searches for dinucleon decay in iron., Comment: 20 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D on March 30, 2015
Published: 2015
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22. Search for neutrinos from annihilation of captured low-mass dark matter particles in the Sun by Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Choi, K., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, 2 T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, 2 K., Lee, K. P., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, 2 K., McLachlan, T., Labarga, 2 L., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, 4 J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, 4 S., Tanaka, 5 H. A., Tobayama, 5 S., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: Super-Kamiokande (SK) can search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by detecting neutrinos produced from WIMP annihilations occurring inside the Sun. In this analysis, we include neutrino events with interaction vertices in the detector in addition to upward-going muons produced in the surrounding rock. Compared to the previous result, which used the upward-going muons only, the signal acceptances for light (few-GeV/$c^2$ $\sim$ 200-GeV/$c^2$) WIMPs are significantly increased. We fit 3903 days of SK data to search for the contribution of neutrinos from WIMP annihilation in the Sun. We found no significant excess over expected atmospheric-neutrino background and the result is interpreted in terms of upper limits on WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections under different assumptions about the annihilation channel. We set the current best limits on the spin-dependent (SD) WIMP-proton cross section for WIMP masses below 200 GeV/$c^2$ (at 10 GeV/$c^2$, 1.49$\times 10^{-39}$ cm$^2$ for $\chi\chi\rightarrow b \bar{b}$ and 1.31$\times 10^{-40}$ cm$^2$ for $\chi\chi\rightarrow\tau^+\tau^-$ annihilation channels), also ruling out some fraction of WIMP candidates with spin-independent (SI) coupling in the few-GeV/$c^2$ mass range.
Published: 2015

23. Test of Lorentz invariance with atmospheric neutrinos

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Wendell, R. A., Yokozawa, T., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Tateishi, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for neutrino oscillations induced by Lorentz violation has been performed using 4,438 live-days of Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data. The Lorentz violation is included in addition to standard three-flavor oscillations using the non-perturbative Standard Model Extension (SME), allowing the use of the full range of neutrino path lengths, ranging from 15 to 12,800 km, and energies ranging from 100 MeV to more than 100 TeV in the search. No evidence of Lorentz violation was observed, so limits are set on the renormalizable isotropic SME coefficients in the $e\mu$, $\mu\tau$, and $e\tau$ sectors, improving the existing limits by up to seven orders of magnitude and setting limits for the first time in the neutrino $\mu\tau$ sector of the SME., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, featured with a synopsis: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052003
Published: 2014
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24. Limits on sterile neutrino mixing using atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Wendell, R. A., Yokozawa, T., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Tateishi, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We present limits on sterile neutrino mixing using 4,438 live-days of atmospheric neutrino data from the Super-Kamiokande experiment. We search for fast oscillations driven by an eV$^2$-scale mass splitting and for oscillations into sterile neutrinos instead of tau neutrinos at the atmospheric mass splitting. When performing both these searches we assume that the sterile mass splitting is large, allowing $\sin^2(\Delta m^2 L/4E)$ to be approximated as $0.5$, and we assume that there is no mixing between electron neutrinos and sterile neutrinos ($|U_{e4}|^2 = 0$). No evidence of sterile oscillations is seen and we limit $|U_{\mu4}|^2$ to less than 0.041 and $|U_{\tau4}|^2$ to less than 0.18 for $\Delta m^2 > 0.8$ eV$^2$ at the 90% C.L. in a 3+1 framework. The approximations that can be made with atmospheric neutrinos allow these limits to be easily applied to 3+N models, and we provide our results in a generic format to allow comparisons with other sterile neutrino models., Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, PRD Editor's Suggestion
Published: 2014
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25. Search for Trilepton Nucleon Decay via $p \rightarrow e^+ \nu \nu$ and $p \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu \nu$ in the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

Author: Takhistov, V., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Wendell, R. A., Yokozawa, T., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Tateishi, K., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Connolly, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The trilepton nucleon decay modes $p \rightarrow e^+ \nu \nu$ and $p \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu \nu$ violate $|\Delta (B - L)|$ by two units. Using data from a 273.4 kiloton year exposure of Super-Kamiokande a search for these decays yields a fit consistent with no signal. Accordingly, lower limits on the partial lifetimes of $\tau_{p \rightarrow e^+ \nu \nu} > 1.7 \times 10^{32}$ years and $\tau_{p \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu \nu} > 2.2 \times 10^{32}$ years at a $90 \% $ confidence level are obtained. These limits can constrain Grand Unified Theories which allow for such processes.
Published: 2014
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26. Search for Proton Decay via $p \rightarrow \nu K^{+}$ using 260 kiloton$\cdot$year data of Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Wendell, R. A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Yokozawa, T., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Okumura, K., McLachlan, T., Labarga, L., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Kubo, H., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Miyake, M., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Takeuchi, J., Kuno, Y., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Obayashi, Y., Vagins, M. R., Chen, S., Sui, H., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have searched for proton decay via $p \rightarrow \nu K^{+}$ using Super-Kamiokande data from April 1996 to February 2013, 260 kiloton$\cdot$year exposure in total. No evidence for this proton decay mode is found. A lower limit of the proton lifetime is set to $5.9 \times 10^{33}$ years at 90% confidence level., Comment: 13 pages with 15 figures, will be submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2014
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27. First Indication of Terrestrial Matter Effects on Solar Neutrino Oscillation

Author: Renshaw, A., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Yokozawa, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., McLachlan, T., Labarga, L., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhabar, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Bronner, C., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report an indication that the elastic scattering rate of solar $^8$B neutrinos with electrons in the Super-Kamiokande detector is larger when the neutrinos pass through the Earth during nighttime. We determine the day/night asymmetry, defined as the difference of the average day rate and average night rate divided by the average of those two rates, to be $(-3.2\pm1.1(\text{stat})\pm0.5(\text{syst}))\%$, which deviates from zero by 2.7 $\sigma$. Since the elastic scattering process is mostly sensitive to electron-flavored solar neutrinos, a non-zero day/night asymmetry implies that the flavor oscillations of solar neutrinos are affected by the presence of matter within the neutrinos' flight path. Super-Kamiokande's day/night asymmetry is consistent with neutrino oscillations for $4\times10^{-5}$eV$^2\leq\Delta m^2_{21}\leq7\times10^{-5}$eV$^2$ and large mixing values of $\theta_{12}$, at the $68\%$ C.L., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2013
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28. Baryon Number Violation

Author: Babu, K. S., Kearns, E., Al-Binni, U., Banerjee, S., Baxter, D. V., Berezhiani, Z., Bergevin, M., Bhattacharya, S., Brice, S., Brock, R., Burgess, T. W., Castellanos, L., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, M-C., Church, E., Coppola, C. E., Cowen, D. F., Cowsik, R., Crabtree, J. A., Davoudiasl, H., Dermisek, R., Dolgov, A., Dutta, B., Dvali, G., Ferguson, P., Perez, P. Fileviez, Gabriel, T., Gal, A., Gallmeier, F., Ganezer, K. S., Gogoladze, I., Golubeva, E. S., Graves, V. B., Greene, G., Handler, T., Hartfiel, B., Hawari, A., Heilbronn, L., Hill, J., Jaffe, D., Johnson, C., Jung, C. K., Kamyshkov, Y., Kerbikov, B., Kopeliovich, B. Z., Kopeliovich, V. B., Korsch, W., Lachenmaier, T., Langacker, P., Liu, C-Y., Marciano, W. J., Mocko, M., Mohapatra, R. N., Mokhov, N., Muhrer, G., Mumm, P., Nath, P., Obayashi, Y., Okun, L., Pati, J. C., Pattie Jr., R. W., Phillips II, D. G., Quigg, C., Raaf, J. L., Raby, S., Ramberg, E., Ray, A., Roy, A., Ruggles, A., Sarkar, U., Saunders, A., Serebrov, A., Shafi, Q., Shimizu, H., Shiozawa, M., Shrock, R., Sikdar, A. K., Snow, W. M., Soha, A., Spanier, S., Stavenga, G. C., Striganov, S., Svoboda, R., Tang, Z., Tavartkiladze, Z., Townsend, L., Tulin, S., Vainshtein, A., Van Kooten, R., Wagner, C. E. M., Wang, Z., Wehring, B., Wilson, R. J., Wise, M., Yokoyama, M., and Young, A. R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This report, prepared for the Community Planning Study - Snowmass 2013 - summarizes the theoretical motivations and the experimental efforts to search for baryon number violation, focussing on nucleon decay and neutron-antineutron oscillations. Present and future nucleon decay search experiments using large underground detectors, as well as planned neutron-antineutron oscillation search experiments with free neutron beams are highlighted., Comment: Report of the Community Summer Study (Snowmass 2013), Intensity Frontier -- Baryon Number Violation Group
Published: 2013

29. Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Author: Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Koshio, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Wendell, R. A., Yokozawa, T., Irvine, T. J., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., McLachlan, T., Labarga, L., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Hong, N., Akiri, T., Albert, J. B., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Kikawa, T., Kubo, H., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Otani, M., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Miyake, M., Mijakowski, P., Tacik, R., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Idehara, Y., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Yamaguchi, R., Yano, T., Kuno, Y., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Sui, H., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Zhenwei, Y., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Procedures and results on hardware level detector calibration in Super-Kamiokande (SK) are presented in this paper. In particular, we report improvements made in our calibration methods for the experimental phase IV in which new readout electronics have been operating since 2008. The topics are separated into two parts. The first part describes the determination of constants needed to interpret the digitized output of our electronics so that we can obtain physical numbers such as photon counts and their arrival times for each photomultiplier tube (PMT). In this context, we developed an in-situ procedure to determine high-voltage settings for PMTs in large detectors like SK, as well as a new method for measuring PMT quantum efficiency and gain in such a detector. The second part describes the modeling of the detector in our Monte Carlo simulation, including in particular the optical properties of its water target and their variability over time. Detailed studies on the water quality are also presented. As a result of this work, we achieved a precision sufficient for physics analysis over a wide energy range (from a few MeV to above a TeV). For example, the charge determination was understood at the 1% level, and the timing resolution was 2.1 nsec at the one-photoelectron charge level and 0.5 nsec at the 100-photoelectron charge level., Comment: 75 pages, 35 figures
Published: 2013
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30. A Search for Nucleon Decay via $n \rightarrow \bar{\nu} \pi^{0}$ and $p \rightarrow \bar{\nu} \pi^{+}$ in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Kozuma, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Ishihara, C., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T. M., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ikeda, M., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G. D., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mino, S., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Totsuka, Y., Martens, K., Schuemann, J., Vagins, M. R., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present the results of searches for nucleon decay via bound neutron to antineutrino plus pizero and proton to antineutrino plus piplus using data from a combined 172.8 kiloton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande-I, -II, and -III. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes. For antineutrino pizero, the partial lifetime is >1.1x10^{33} years; for antineutrino piplus, the partial lifetime is >3.9x10^{32} years at 90% confidence level., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Published: 2013
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31. Search for Proton Decay into Muon plus Neutral Kaon in Super-Kamiokande I, II, and III

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Regis, C., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Yokozawa, T., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Lee, K. P., Okumura, K., McLachlan, T., Labarga, L., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R. A., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ieki, K., Ikeda, M., Kubo, H., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Miyake, M., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Takeuchi, J., Kuno, Y., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Chen, S., Sui, H., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We have searched for proton into muon plus neutral kaon using data from a 91.7 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-I, a 49.2 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-II, and a 31.9 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-III. The number of candidate events in the data was consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background expectation and no evidence for proton decay in this mode was found. We set a partial lifetime lower limit of 1.6x10^33 years at the 90% confidence level., Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2012
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32. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Author: Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., de Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, G. P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Perez, P. Fileviez, Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Flemming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V. M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P. W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J. P., Greenlee, H., Group, R. C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J. C., Harnik, R., Harris, D. A., Harris, F. A., Harris, P. G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B. R., Heeger, K. M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E. A, Hitlin, D. G., Holt, R. J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C. P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A. L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y. K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A. D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A. S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K. S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K. T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L. S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C. Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W. C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., MacFarlane, D. B., Machado, P. A. N., Mackenzie, P. B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W. J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J. W., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., McLaughlin, G., McKeen, D., McKeown, R., Meadows, B. T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J. P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U. K., Mishra, S. R., Mocioiu, I., Sher, S. Moed, Mohapatra, R. N., Monreal, B., Moore, C. D., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Moustakas, L. A., Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H. P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J. K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J. S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O'Connor, T. P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J. L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R. H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J. C., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, G., Perdue, G. N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M. V., Raby, S., Raaf, J. L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J. L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A. J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y. K., Seth, K. K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S. R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y. H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G. C., Steffen, J. H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I. A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D. B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B. G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I. S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C. D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Van de Water, R. G., Van de Water, R. S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y. W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winter, W., Wise, M. B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms., Comment: 229 pages
Published: 2012

33. Search for Nucleon Decay into Charged Anti-lepton plus Meson in Super-Kamiokande I and II

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Nishino, H., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Yamada, S., Hazama, S., Higuchi, I., Ishihara, C., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Mitsuka, G., Okumura, K., Tanimoto, N., Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Cravens, J. P., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Watanabe, Y., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Yokoyama, M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G., McGrew, C., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Idehara, Y., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Seo, H. K., Furuse, Y., Nishijima, K., Yokosawa, Y., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Vagins, M. R., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Liu, J., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Connolly, K., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Searches for a nucleon decay into a charged anti-lepton (e^+ or {\mu}^+) plus a light meson ({\pi}^0, {\pi}^-, {\eta}, {\rho}^0, {\rho}^-, {\omega}) were performed using the Super-Kamiokande I and II data. Twelve nucleon decay modes were searched for. The total exposure is 140.9 kiloton \cdot years, which includes a 91.7 kiloton \cdot year exposure (1489.2 live days) of Super-Kamiokande-I and a 49.2 kiloton \cdot year exposure (798.6 live days) of Super-Kamiokande-II. The number of candidate events in the data was consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background expectation. No significant evidence for a nucleon decay was observed in the data. Thus, lower limits on the nucleon partial lifetime at 90% confidence level were obtained. The limits range from 3.6 \times 10^31 to 8.2 \times 10^33 years, depending on the decay modes., Comment: 25 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2012
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34. Search for GUT Monopoles at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Ueno, K., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Kozuma, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueshima, K., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Martens, K., Schuemann, J., Vagins, M., Ishihara, C., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Bays, K., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ikeda, M., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Labarga, L., Marti, Ll., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mino, S., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: GUT monopoles captured by the Sun's gravitation are expected to catalyze proton decays via the Callan-Rubakov process. In this scenario, protons, which initially decay into pions, will ultimately produce \nu_{e}, \nu_{\mu} and \bar{\nu}_{\mu}. After undergoing neutrino oscillation, all neutrino species appear when they arrive at the Earth, and can be detected by a 50,000 metric ton water Cherenkov detector, Super-Kamiokande (SK). A search for low energy neutrinos in the electron total energy range from 19 to 55 MeV was carried out with SK and gives a monopole flux limit of F_M(\sigma_0/1 mb) < 6.3 \times 10^{-24} (\beta_M/10^{-3})^2 cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} at 90% C.L., where \beta_M is the monopole velocity in units of the speed of light and \sigma_0 is the catalysis cross section at \beta_M=1. The obtained limit is more than eight orders of magnitude more stringent than the current best cosmic-ray supermassive monopole flux limit, F_M < 1 \times 10^{-15} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} for \beta_M < 10^{-3} and also two orders of magnitude lower than the result of the Kamiokande experiment, which used a similar detection method., Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2012
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35. Supernova Relic Neutrino Search at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Bays, K., Iida, T., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Marti, L., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Kajita, K. Ueshima S. Yamada T. Yokozawa H. Kaji T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Pik, L. K., Martens, K., Vagins, M., Labarga, L., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Cho, S., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ikeda, M., Matsuoka, K., Minamino, A., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Miyake, M., Tanaka, T., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Kibayashi, A., Ishino, H., Mino, S., Sakuda, M., Mori, T., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Heng, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, H., Yang, Z., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A new Super-Kamiokande (SK) search for Supernova Relic Neutrinos (SRNs) was conducted using 2853 live days of data. Sensitivity is now greatly improved compared to the 2003 SK result, which placed a flux limit near many theoretical predictions. This more detailed analysis includes a variety of improvements such as increased efficiency, a lower energy threshold, and an expanded data set. New combined upper limits on SRN flux are between 2.8 and 3.0 nu_e cm^-2 s^-1 > 16 MeV total positron energy (17.3 MeV E_nu).
Published: 2011
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36. Search for n-nbar oscillation in Super-Kamiokande

Author: collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ishihara, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Minamino, A., Mitsuda, C., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Obayashi, Y., Ogawa, H., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Higuchi, I., Ishihara, C., Ishitsuka, M., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Mitsuka, G., Nakayama, S., Nishino, H., Okumura, K., Saji, C., Takenaga, Y., Clark, S., Desai, S., Dufour, F., Herfurth, A., Kearns, E., Likhoded, S., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Wang, W., Goldhaber, M., Casper, D., Cravens, J. P., Dunmore, J., Griskevich, J., Kropp, W. R., Liu, D. W., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Vagins, M. R., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Jeoung, I. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Scholberg, K., Tanimoto, N., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Ellsworth, R. W., Tasaka, S., Guillian, G., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Messier, M. D., Ichikawa, A. K., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwashita, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Nitta, K., Oyama, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Hasegawa, M., Maesaka, H., Nakaya, T., Sasaki, T., Sato, H., Tanaka, H., Yamamoto, S., Yokoyama, M., Haines, T. J., Dazeley, S., Hatakeyama, S., Svoboda, R., Sullivan, G. W., Gran, R., Habig, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Koike, T., Jung, C. K., Kato, T., Kobayashi, K., McGrew, C., Sarrat, A., Terri, R., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Ikeda, M., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Ishizuka, T., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Seo, H. K., Gando, Y., Hasegawa, T., Inoue, K., Ishii, H., Nishijima, K., Ishino, H., Watanabe, Y., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Chen, S., Deng, Z., Liu, Y., Kielczewska, D., Berns, H. G., Shiraishi, K. K., Thrane, E., Washburn, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for neutron-antineutron ($n-\bar{n}$) oscillation was undertaken in Super-Kamiokande using the 1489 live-day or $2.45 \times 10^{34}$ neutron-year exposure data. This process violates both baryon and baryon minus lepton numbers by an absolute value of two units and is predicted by a large class of hypothetical models where the seesaw mechanism is incorporated to explain the observed tiny neutrino masses and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. No evidence for $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation was found, the lower limit of the lifetime for neutrons bound in ${}^{16}$O, in an analysis that included all of the significant sources of experimental uncertainties, was determined to be $1.9 \times 10^{32}$~years at the 90\% confidence level. The corresponding lower limit for the oscillation time of free neutrons was calculated to be $2.7 \times 10^8$~s using a theoretical value of the nuclear suppression factor of $0.517 \times 10^{23}$~s$^{-1}$ and its uncertainty., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2011
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37. Study of Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions with Atmospheric Neutrino Data in Super-Kamiokande I and II

Author: Mitsuka, G., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Yamada, S., Hazama, S., Higuchi, I., Ishihara, C., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishino, H., Okumura, K., Tanimoto, N., Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Cravens, J. P., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Vagins, M. R., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Watanabe, Y., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Yokoyama, M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G., McGrew, C., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Idehara, Y., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Seo, H. K., Furuse, Y., Nishijima, K., Yokosawa, Y., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Chen, S., Liu, J., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Connolly, K., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In this paper we study non-standard neutrino interactions as an example of physics beyond the standard model using atmospheric neutrino data collected during the Super-Kamiokande I(1996-2001) and II(2003-2005) periods. We focus on flavor-changing-neutral-currents (FCNC), which allow neutrino flavor transitions via neutral current interactions, and effects which violate lepton non-universality (NU) and give rise to different neutral-current interaction-amplitudes for different neutrino flavors. We obtain a limit on the FCNC coupling parameter, varepsilon_{mu tau}, |varepsilon_{mu tau}|<1.1 x 10^{-2} at 90%C.L. and various constraints on other FCNC parameters as a function of the NU coupling, varepsilon_{e e}. We find no evidence of non-standard neutrino interactions in the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric data., Comment: 12 Pages, 14 figures. To be submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2011
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38. Search for Differences in Oscillation Parameters for Atmospheric Neutrinos and Antineutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Kozuma, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Ishihara, C., Kaji, H., Lee, K. P., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Labarga, L., Magro, L. M., Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T. M., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishino, H., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Taylor, I., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mino, S., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Ishizuka, T., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Totsuka, Y., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for differences in the oscillations of antineutrinos and neutrinos in the Super-Kamiokande -I, -II, and -III atmospheric neutrino sample. Under a two-flavor disappearance model with separate mixing parameters between neutrinos and antineutrinos, we find no evidence for a difference in oscillation parameters. Best fit antineutrino mixing is found to be at (dm2bar, sin2 2 thetabar) = (2.0x10^-3 eV^2, 1.0) and is consistent with the overall Super-K measurement., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Figure updated
Published: 2011
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39. An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, The Super-Kamiokande, Tanaka, T., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Kouzuma, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Ishihara, C., Hazama, S., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos3, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Cravens, J. P., Bays, K., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J. B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S., Martens, K., Vagins, M., Watanabe, Y., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishino, H., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ikeda, M., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Labarga, L., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Jung, C. K., McGrew, C., Lopez, G., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Yokosawa, Y., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present the result of an indirect search for high energy neutrinos from WIMP annihilation in the Sun using upward-going muon (upmu) events at Super-Kamiokande. Datasets from SKI-SKIII (3109.6 days) were used for the analysis. We looked for an excess of neutrino signal from the Sun as compared with the expected atmospheric neutrino background in three upmu categories: stopping, non-showering, and showering. No significant excess was observed. The 90% C.L. upper limits of upward-going muon flux induced by WIMPs of 100 GeV/c$^2$ were 6.4$\times10^{-15}$ cm$^{-2}$ sec$^{-1}$ and 4.0$\times10^{-15}$ cm$^{-2}$ sec$^{-1}$ for the soft and hard annihilation channels, respectively. These limits correspond to upper limits of 4.5$\times10^{-39}$ cm$^{-2}$ and 2.7$\times10^{-40}$ cm$^{-2}$ for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross sections in the soft and hard annihilation channels, respectively., Comment: Add journal reference. Also fixed typo and cosmetic things in the old draft
Published: 2011
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40. Solar neutrino results in Super-Kamiokande-III

Author: Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Ishihara, C., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kobayashi, K., Koshio, Y., Kozuma, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Ogawa, H., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Hazama, S., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Vagins, M. R., Labarga, L., Magro, L. M, Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Wang, W., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Casper, D., Cravens, J. P., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J., Wendell, R., Wongjirad, T., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Watanabe, Y., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishino, H., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G., McGrew, C., Terri, R., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mino, S., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Yokosawa, Y., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The results of the third phase of the Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino measurement are presented and compared to the first and second phase results. With improved detector calibrations, a full detector simulation, and improved analysis methods, the systematic uncertainty on the total neutrino flux is estimated to be ?2.1%, which is about two thirds of the systematic uncertainty for the first phase of Super-Kamiokande. The observed 8B solar flux in the 5.0 to 20 MeV total electron energy region is 2.32+/-0.04 (stat.)+/-0.05 (sys.) *10^6 cm^-2sec^-1, in agreement with previous measurements. A combined oscillation analysis is carried out using SK-I, II, and III data, and the results are also combined with the results of other solar neutrino experiments. The best-fit oscillation parameters are obtained to be sin^2 {\theta}12 = 0.30+0.02-0.01(tan^2 {\theta}12 = 0.42+0.04 -0.02) and {\Delta}m2_21 = 6.2+1.1-1.9 *10^-5eV^2. Combined with KamLAND results, the best-fit oscillation parameters are found to be sin^2 {\theta}12 = 0.31+/-0.01(tan^2 {\theta}12 = 0.44+/-0.03) and {\Delta}m2_21 = 7.6?0.2*10^-5eV^2 . The 8B neutrino flux obtained from global solar neutrino experiments is 5.3+/-0.2(stat.+sys.)*10^6cm^-2s^-1, while the 8B flux becomes 5.1+/-0.1(stat.+sys.)*10^6cm^-2s^-1 by adding KamLAND result. In a three-flavor analysis combining all solar neutrino experiments, the upper limit of sin^2 {\theta}13 is 0.060 at 95% C.L.. After combination with KamLAND results, the upper limit of sin^2 {\theta}13 is found to be 0.059 at 95% C.L.., Comment: 19 pages, 33 figures in the main text. The appendix section on errata is added in v3
Published: 2010
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41. Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with sub-leading effects in Super-Kamiokande I, II, and III

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Wendell, R., Ishihara, C., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kobayashi, K., Koshio, Y., Kozuma, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakayama, S., Obayashi, Y., Ogawa, H., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, Y., Ueno, K., Ueshima, K., Watanabe, H., Yamada, S., Yokozawa, T., Hazama, S., Kaji, H., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y., Tanimoto, N., Vagins, M. R., Dufour, F., Kearns, E., Litos, M., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Wang, W., Goldhaber, M., Bays, K., Casper, D., Cravens, J. P., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Regis, C., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Jang, J. S., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Albert, J., Fechner, M., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Tasaka, S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Watanabe, Y., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishino, H., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Tanaka, T., Jung, C. K., Lopez, G., McGrew, C., Yanagisawa, C., Tamura, N., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Mino, S., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Toyota, H., Kuno, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, S. B., Yang, B. S., Ishizuka, T., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Yokosawa, Y., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Totsuka, Y., Chen, S., Heng, Y., Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Kielczewska, D., Mijakowski, P., Connolly, K., Dziomba, M., Thrane, E., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for non-zero theta_{13} and deviations of sin^2 theta_{23} from 0.5 in the oscillations of atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande -I, -II, and -III. No distortions of the neutrino flux consistent with non-zero theta_{13} are found and both neutrino mass hierarchy hypotheses are in agreement with the data. The data are best fit at Delta m^2 = 2.1 x 10^-3 eV^2, sin^2 theta_{13} = 0.0, and sin^2 theta_{23} =0.5. In the normal (inverted) hierarchy theta_{13} and Delta m^2 are constrained at the one-dimensional 90% C.L. to sin^2 theta_{13} < 0.04 (0.09) and 1.9 (1.7) x 10^-3 < Delta m^2 < 2.6 (2.7) x 10^-3 eV^2. The atmospheric mixing angle is within 0.407 <= sin^2 theta_{23} <= 0.583 at 90% C.L., Comment: 17 Pages, 14 figures. To be submitted to Phys. Rev. D Minor update to text after referee comments. Figures modified for better grayscale printing.
Published: 2010
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42. Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Desai, S., Ashie, Y., Fukuda, S., Fukuda, Y., Ishihara, K., Itow, Y., Koshio, Y., Minamino, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Namba, T., Nambu, R., Obayashi, Y., Sakurai, N., Shiozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., Takeuchi, H., Takeuchi, Y., Yamada, S., Ishitsuka, M., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nakayama, S., Okada, A., Ooyabu, T., Saji, C., Earl, M., Kearns, E., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Walter, C. W., Wang, W., Goldhaber, M., Barszczak, T., Casper, D., Cravens, J. P., Gajewski, W., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Liu, D. W., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Sterner, C. W., Vagins, M. R., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Keig, W. E., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Ellsworth, R. W., Tasaka, S., Guillian, G., Kibayashi, A., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Takemori, D., Messier, M. D., Hayato, Y., Ichikawa, A. K., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwashita, T., Kameda, J., Kobayashi, T., Maruyama, T., Nakamura, K., Nitta, K., Oyama, Y., Sakuda, M., Totsuka, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Hasegawa, M., Hayashi, K., Inagaki, T., Kato, I., Maesaka, H., Morita, T., Nakaya, T., Nishikawa, K., Sasaki, T., Ueda, S., Yamamoto, S., Haines, T. J., Dazeley, S., Hatakeyama, S., Svoboda, R., Blaufuss, E., Goodman, J. A., Sullivan, G. W., Turcan, D., Scholberg, K., Habig, A., Jung, C. K., Kato, T., Kobayashi, K., Malek, M., Mauger, C., McGrew, C., Sarrat, A., Sharkey, E., Yanagisawa, C., Toshito, T., Mitsuda, C., Miyano, K., Shibata, T., Kajiyama, Y., Nagashima, Y., Takita, M., Yoshida, M., Kim, H. I., Okazawa, H., Ishizuka, T., Choi, Y., Seo, H. K., Gando, Y., Hasegawa, T., Inoue, K., Shirai, J., Suzuki, A., Koshiba, M., Hashimoto, T., Nakajima, Y., Nishijima, K., Harada, T., Ishino, H., Morii, M., Nishimura, R., Watanabe, Y., Kielczewska, D., Zalipska, J., Gran, R., Shiraishi, K. K., Washburn, K., and Wilkes, R. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results of indirect searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with 1679.6 live days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector using neutrino-induced upward through-going muons. The search is performed by looking for an excess of high energy muon neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in the Sun, the core of the Earth, and the Galactic Center, as compared to the number expected from the atmospheric neutrino background. No statistically significant excess was seen. We calculate flux limits in various angular cones around each of the above celestial objects. We obtain conservative model-independent upper limits on WIMP-nucleon cross-section as a function of WIMP mass and compare these results with the corresponding results from direct dark matter detection experiments., Comment: 10 pages, 14 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2004
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43. Search for proton decay via p →e+π0 and p →μ+π0 with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Takenaka A., Abe K., Bronner C., Hayato Y., Ikeda M., Imaizumi S., Ito H., Kameda J., Kataoka Y., Kato Y., Kishimoto Y., Marti L., Miura M., Moriyama S., Mochizuki T., Nagao Y., Nakahata M., Nakajima Y., Nakayama S., Okada T., Okamoto K., Orii A., Pronost G., Sekiya H., Shiozawa M., Sonoda Y., Suzuki Y., Takeda A., Takemoto Y., Tanaka H., Yano T., Akutsu R., Han S., Kajita T., Okumura K., Tashiro T., Wang R., Xia J., Bravo-Berguno D., Labarga L., Fernandez P., Zaldivar B., Blaszczyk F. D. M., Kearns E., Raaf J. L., Stone J. L., Wan L., Wester T., Pointon B. W., Bian J., Griskevich N. J., Kropp W. R., Locke S., Mine S., Smy M. B., Sobel H. W., Takhistov V., Weatherly P., Ganezer K. S., Hill J., Kim J. Y., Lim I. T., Park R. G., Bodur B., Scholberg K., Walter C. W., Coffani A., Drapier O., El Hedri S., Giampaolo A., Gonin M., Mueller T. A., Paganini P., Quilain B., Ishizuka T., Nakamura T., Jang J. S., Learned J. G., Matsuno S., Anthony L. H. V., Litchfield R. P., Sztuc A. A., Uchida Y., Berardi V., Catanesi M. G., Radicioni E., Calabria N. F., Nascimento Machado L., De Rosa G., Collazuol G., Iacob F., Lamoureux M., Ospina N., Ludovici L., Nishimura Y., Cao S., Friend M., Hasegawa T., Ishida T., Jakkapu M., Kobayashi T., Matsubara T., Nakadaira T., Nakamura K., Oyama Y., Sakashita K., Sekiguchi T., Tsukamoto T., Hasegawa M., Isobe Y., Miyabe H., Nakano Y., Shiozawa T., Sugimoto T., Suzuki A. T., Takeuchi Y., Yamamoto S., Ali A., Ashida Y., Feng J., Hirota S., Ichikawa A. K., Jiang M., Kikawa T., Mori M., Nakamura K. E., Nakaya T., Wendell R. A., Yasutome K., McCauley N., Mehta P., Pritchard A., Tsui K. M., Fukuda Y., Itow Y., Menjo H., Niwa T., Sato K., Taani M., Tsukada M., Mijakowski P., Frankiewicz K., Jung C. K., Santucci G., Vilela C., Wilking M. J., Yanagisawa C., Fukuda D., Harada M., Hagiwara K., Horai T., Ishino H., Ito S., Koshio Y., Ma W., Piplani N., Sakai S., Sakuda M., Takahira Y., Xu C., Kuno Y., Barr G., Barrow D., Cook L., Simpson C., Wark D., Nova F., Boschi T., Di Lodovico F., Molina Sedgwick S., Zsoldos S., Yang J. Y., Jenkins S. J., McElwee J. M., Thiesse M. D., Thompson L. F., Okazawa H., Choi Y., Kim S. B., Yu I., Nishijima K., Koshiba M., Iwamoto K., Ogawa N., Yokoyama M., Goldsack A., Martens K., Vagins M. R., Kuze M., Tanaka M., Yoshida T., Inomoto M., Ishitsuka M., Matsumoto R., Ohta K., Shinoki M., Martin J. F., Nantais C. M., Tanaka H. A., Towstego T., Hartz M., Konaka A., De Perio P., Prouse N. W., Chen S., Xu B. D., Posiadala-Zezula M., Richards B., Jamieson B., Walker J., Minamino A., Pintaudi G., Sasaki R., Takenaka, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, L., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguno, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. D. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., El Hedri, S., Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, T. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Nascimento Machado, L., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, K. E., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Mccauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Molina Sedgwick, S., Zsoldos, S., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., Mcelwee, J. M., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., De Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Abstract: We have searched for proton decay via p→e+π0 and p→μ+π0 modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresponds to 450 kton·years exposure. We have accumulated about 25% more livetime and enlarged the fiducial volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector from 22.5 kton to 27.2 kton for this analysis, so that 144 kton·years of data, including 78 kton·years of additional fiducial volume data, has been newly analyzed. No candidates have been found for p→e+π0 and one candidate remains for p→μ+π0 in the conventional 22.5 kton fiducial volume and it is consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background prediction. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes: τ/B(p→e+π0)>2.4×1034 years and τ/B(p→μ+π0)>1.6×1034 years at 90% confidence level.
Published: 2020

44. Search for tens of MeV neutrinos associated with gamma-ray bursts in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Orii, A, primary, Abe, K, additional, Bronner, C, additional, Hayato, Y, additional, Ikeda, M, additional, Imaizumi, S, additional, Ito, H, additional, Kameda, J, additional, Kataoka, Y, additional, Kato, Y, additional, Kishimoto, Y, additional, Miura, M, additional, Moriyama, S, additional, Mochizuki, T, additional, Nagao, Y, additional, Nakahata, M, additional, Nakajima, Y, additional, Nakayama, S, additional, Okada, T, additional, Okamoto, K, additional, Pronost, G, additional, Sekiya, H, additional, Shiozawa, M, additional, Sonoda, Y, additional, Suzuki, Y, additional, Takeda, A, additional, Takemoto, Y, additional, Takenaka, A, additional, Tanaka, H, additional, Yano, T, additional, Han, S, additional, Kajita, T, additional, Okumura, K, additional, Tashiro, T, additional, Wang, R, additional, Xia, J, additional, Megias, G D, additional, Bravo-Berguño, D, additional, Labarga, L, additional, Marti, Ll, additional, Zaldivar, B, additional, Blaszczyk, F d M, additional, Kearns, E, additional, Raaf, J L, additional, Stone, J L, additional, Wan, L, additional, Wester, T, additional, Pointon, B W, additional, Bian, J, additional, Griskevich, N J, additional, Kropp, W R, additional, Locke, S, additional, Mine, S, additional, Smy, M B, additional, Sobel, H W, additional, Takhistov, V, additional, Weatherly, P, additional, Ganezer, K S, additional, Hill, J, additional, Kim, J Y, additional, Lim, I T, additional, Park, R G, additional, Bodur, B, additional, Scholberg, K, additional, Walter, C W, additional, Bernard, L, additional, Coffani, A, additional, Drapier, O, additional, El Hedri, S, additional, Giampaolo, A, additional, Gonin, M, additional, Mueller, Th A, additional, Paganini, P, additional, Quilain, B, additional, Ishizuka, T, additional, Nakamura, T, additional, Jang, J S, additional, Learned, J G, additional, Matsuno, S, additional, Anthony, L H V, additional, Litchfield, R P, additional, Sztuc, A A, additional, Uchida, Y, additional, Berardi, V, additional, Catanesi, M G, additional, Radicioni, E, additional, Calabria, N F, additional, Machado, L N, additional, De Rosa, G, additional, Collazuol, G, additional, Iacob, F, additional, Lamoureux, M, additional, Ospina, N, additional, Ludovici, L, additional, Nishimura, Y, additional, Cao, S, additional, Friend, M, additional, Hasegawa, T, additional, Ishida, T, additional, Kobayashi, T, additional, Jakkapu, M, additional, Matsubara, T, additional, Nakadaira, T, additional, Nakamura, K, additional, Oyama, Y, additional, Sakashita, K, additional, Sekiguchi, T, additional, Tsukamoto, T, additional, Boschi, T, additional, Lodovico, F Di, additional, Sedgwick, S Molina, additional, Taani, M, additional, Zsoldos, S, additional, Hasegawa, M, additional, Isobe, Y, additional, Miyabe, H, additional, Nakano, Y, additional, Shiozawa, T, additional, Sugimoto, T, additional, Suzuki, A T, additional, Takeuchi, Y, additional, Yamamoto, S, additional, Ali, A, additional, Ashida, Y, additional, Feng, J, additional, Hirota, S, additional, Jiang, M, additional, Ichikawa, A K, additional, Kikawa, T, additional, Mori, M, additional, Nakamura, K E, additional, Nakaya, T, additional, Wendell, R A, additional, Yasutome, K, additional, Fernandez, P, additional, McCauley, N, additional, Mehta, P, additional, Pritchard, A, additional, Tsui, K M, additional, Fukuda, Y, additional, Itow, Y, additional, Menjo, H, additional, Niwa, T, additional, Sato, K, additional, Tsukada, M, additional, Mijakowski, P, additional, Frankiewicz, K, additional, Jung, C K, additional, Vilela, C, additional, Wilking, M J, additional, Yanagisawa, C, additional, Fukuda, D, additional, Harada, M, additional, Hagiwara, K, additional, Horai, T, additional, Ishino, H, additional, Ito, S, additional, Koshio, Y, additional, Ma, W, additional, Piplani, N, additional, Sakai, S, additional, Sakuda, M, additional, Takahira, Y, additional, Xu, C, additional, Kuno, Y, additional, Barr, G, additional, Barrow, D, additional, Cook, L, additional, Goldsack, A, additional, Samani, S, additional, Simpson, C, additional, Wark, D, additional, Nova, F, additional, Yang, J Y, additional, Jenkins, S J, additional, Malek, M, additional, McElwee, J M, additional, Stone, O, additional, Thiesse, M D, additional, Thompson, L F, additional, Okazawa, H, additional, Choi, Y, additional, Kim, S B, additional, Yu, I, additional, Nishijima, K, additional, Koshiba, M, additional, Iwamoto, K, additional, Ogawa, N, additional, Yokoyama, M, additional, Martens, K, additional, Vagins, M R, additional, Izumiyama, S, additional, Kuze, M, additional, Tanaka, M, additional, Yoshida, T, additional, Inomoto, M, additional, Ishitsuka, M, additional, Matsumoto, R, additional, Ohta, K, additional, Shinoki, M, additional, Martin, J F, additional, Nantais, C M, additional, Tanaka, H A, additional, Towstego, T, additional, Akutsu, R, additional, Hartz, M, additional, Konaka, A, additional, de Perio, P, additional, Prouse, N W, additional, Chen, S, additional, Xu, B D, additional, Posiadala-Zezula, M, additional, Richards, B, additional, Jamieson, B, additional, Walker, J, additional, Minamino, A, additional, Pintaudi, G, additional, and Sasaki, R, additional
Published: 2021
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45. Search for proton decay via <math><mi>p</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>π</mi><mn>0</mn></msup></math> and <math><mi>p</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>μ</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>π</mi><mn>0</mn></msup></math> with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Takenaka, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., El Hedri, S., Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Molina Sedgwick, S., Zsoldos, S., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., McElwee, J. M., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Abstract: We have searched for proton decay via p→e+π0 and p→μ+π0 modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresponds to 450 kton·years exposure. We have accumulated about 25% more livetime and enlarged the fiducial volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector from 22.5 kton to 27.2 kton for this analysis, so that 144 kton·years of data, including 78 kton·years of additional fiducial volume data, has been newly analyzed. No candidates have been found for p→e+π0 and one candidate remains for p→μ+π0 in the conventional 22.5 kton fiducial volume and it is consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background prediction. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes: τ/B(p→e+π0)>2.4×1034 years and τ/B(p→μ+π0)>1.6×1034 years at 90% confidence level.
Published: 2020

46. Search for Astronomical Neutrinos from Blazar TXS 0506+056 in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Hagiwara, K., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. D. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Rosa, G. De, Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Niwa, T., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Lodovico, F. Di, Sedgwick, S. Molina, Richards, B., Zsoldos, S., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., Perio, P. de, Chen, S., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Super-Kamiokande, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Hagiwara, K., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. D. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, Ke., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., Mccauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Niwa, T., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Lodovico, F. Di, Sedgwick, S. Molina, Richards, B., Zsoldos, S., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., Perio, P. de, Chen, S., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., and Pintaudi, G.
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Electron, KAMIOKANDE, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, IceCube, blazar, muon, 0103 physical sciences, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, —BL Lacertae objects: individual (TXS0506+056), Muon neutrino, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Neutrino astronomy, BL Lacertae objects, Blazars, Super-Kamiokande, astro-ph.HE, neutrino muon, background, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, electron: flux, neutrinos, Astronomy and Astrophysics, flux, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Event (particle physics), Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: We report a search for astronomical neutrinos in the energy region from several GeV to TeV in the direction of the blazar TXS0506+056 using the Super-Kamiokande detector following the detection of a 100 TeV neutrino from the same location by the IceCube collaboration. Using Super-Kamiokande neutrino data across several data samples observed from April 1996 to February 2018 we have searched for both a total excess above known backgrounds across the entire period as well as localized excesses on smaller time scales in that interval. No significant excess nor significant variation in the observed event rate are found in the blazar direction. Upper limits are placed on the electron and muon neutrino fluxes at 90\% confidence level as $6.03 \times 10^{-7}$ and $4.52 \times 10^{-7}$ to $9.26 \times 10^{-10}$ [${\rm erg}/{\rm cm}^2/{\rm s}$], respectively.
Published: 2019

47. Search for proton decay via p→e+π0 and p→μ+π0 with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Takenaka, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., El Hedri, S., Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, Ke., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., Mccauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Molina Sedgwick, S., Zsoldos, S., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., Mcelwee, J. M., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., B. D., Xu, Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Subjects: Grand unified models Baryons Gauge Bayesian methods Cherenkov detectors Particle decays
Published: 2020

48. Search for proton decay via $p\to e^+��^0$ and $p\to ��^+��^0$ with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

Author: Kamiokande Collaboration, Takenaka, A., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takeda, A., Takemoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Kajita, T., Okumura, K., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguno, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Zaldivar, B., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Wan, L., Wester, T., Pointon, B. W., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., Mueller, Th. A., Paganini, P., Quilain, B., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Anthony, L. H. V., Litchfield, R. P., Sztuc, A. A., Uchida, Y., Berardi, V., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., Machado, L. N., De Rosa, G., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Lamoureux, M., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Nishimura, Y., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Jakkapu, M., Kobayashi, T., Matsubara, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Feng, J., Hirota, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Yasutome, K., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Taani, M., Tsukada, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Harada, M., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Piplani, N., Sakai, S., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Zsoldos, S., Yang, J. Y., Jenkins, S. J., McElwee, J. M., Thiesse, M. D., Thompson, L. F., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Kim, S. B., Yu, I., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Iwamoto, K., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Tanaka, M., Yoshida, T., Inomoto, M., Ishitsuka, M., Matsumoto, R., Ohta, K., Shinoki, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., Pintaudi, G., and Sasaki, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), FOS: Physical sciences
Abstract: We have searched for proton decay via $p\to e^+��^0$ and $p\to ��^+��^0$ modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresponds to 450 kton$\cdot$years exposure. We have accumulated about 25% more livetime and enlarged the fiducial volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector from 22.5 kton to 27.2 kton for this analysis, so that 144 kton$\cdot$years of data, including 78 kton$\cdot$years of additional fiducial volume data, has been newly analyzed. No candidates have been found for $p\to e^+��^0$ and one candidate remains for $p\to ��^+��^0$ in the conventional 22.5 kton fiducial volume and it is consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background prediction. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes: $��/B(p\to e^+��^0) > 2.4 \times 10^{34}$ years and $��/B(p\to ��^+��^0) > 1.6 \times 10^{34}$ years at 90% confidence level., 16 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020
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49. Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting with Electrons in Super-Kamiokande

Author: Kachulis, C., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okajima, Y., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Tsui, K. M., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Gustafson, J., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Goldhaber, M., Elnimr, M., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Locke, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Himmel, A., Li, Z., O’Sullivan, E., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Amey, J., Litchfield, R. P., Ma, W. Y., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, KE., Hasegawa, M., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Jiang, M., Nakamura, KE., Nakaya, T., Quilain, B., Patel, N. D., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murase, M., Muto, F., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Ito, S., Fukuda, D., Ishino, H., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Nagata, H., Sakuda, M., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Cole, A., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Totsuka, Y., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Hartz, M., Martens, K., Simpson, C., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Konaka, A., Chen, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J., Minamino, A., and Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
Subjects: Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: A search for boosted dark matter using 161.9 kt yr of Super-Kamiokande IV data is presented. We search\ud for an excess of elastically scattered electrons above the atmospheric neutrino background, with a visible\ud energy between 100 MeV and 1 TeV, pointing back to the Galactic center or the Sun. No such excess is\ud observed. Limits on boosted dark matter event rates in multiple angular cones around the Galactic center\ud and Sun are calculated. Limits are also calculated for a baseline model of boosted dark matter produced\ud from cold dark matter annihilation or decay. This is the first experimental search for boosted dark matter\ud from the Galactic center or the Sun interacting in a terrestrial detector.
Published: 2018

50. Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with improved event reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande IV

Author: Jiang, M, primary, Abe, K, additional, Bronner, C, additional, Hayato, Y, additional, Ikeda, M, additional, Iyogi, K, additional, Kameda, J, additional, Kato, Y, additional, Kishimoto, Y, additional, Marti, L l, additional, Miura, M, additional, Moriyama, S, additional, Mochizuki, T, additional, Nakahata, M, additional, Nakajima, Y, additional, Nakano, Y, additional, Nakayama, S, additional, Okada, T, additional, Okamoto, K, additional, Orii, A, additional, Pronost, G, additional, Sekiya, H, additional, Shiozawa, M, additional, Sonoda, Y, additional, Takeda, A, additional, Takenaka, A, additional, Tanaka, H, additional, Yano, T, additional, Akutsu, R, additional, Kajita, T, additional, Nishimura, Y, additional, Okumura, K, additional, Wang, R, additional, Xia, J, additional, Labarga, L, additional, Fernandez, P, additional, Blaszczyk, F d M, additional, Kachulis, C, additional, Kearns, E, additional, Raaf, J L, additional, Stone, J L, additional, Sussman, S, additional, Berkman, S, additional, Bian, J, additional, Griskevich, N J, additional, Kropp, W R, additional, Locke, S, additional, Mine, S, additional, Weatherly, P, additional, Smy, M B, additional, Sobel, H W, additional, Takhistov, V, additional, Ganezer, K S, additional, Hill, J, additional, Kim, J Y, additional, Lim, I T, additional, Park, R G, additional, Bodur, B, additional, Scholberg, K, additional, Walter, C W, additional, Gonin, M, additional, Imber, J, additional, Mueller, Th A, additional, Ishizuka, T, additional, Nakamura, T, additional, Jang, J S, additional, Choi, K, additional, Learned, J G, additional, Matsuno, S, additional, Litchfield, R P, additional, Uchida, Y, additional, Wascko, M O, additional, Calabria, N F, additional, Catanesi, M G, additional, Intonti, R A, additional, Radicioni, E, additional, De Rosa, G, additional, Ali, A, additional, Collazuol, G, additional, Iacob, F, additional, Ludovici, L, additional, Cao, S, additional, Friend, M, additional, Hasegawa, T, additional, Ishida, T, additional, Kobayashi, T, additional, Nakadaira, T, additional, Nakamura, K, additional, Oyama, Y, additional, Sakashita, K, additional, Sekiguchi, T, additional, Tsukamoto, T, additional, Abe, K E, additional, Hasegawa, M, additional, Isobe, Y, additional, Miyabe, H, additional, Sugimoto, T, additional, Suzuki, A T, additional, Takeuchi, Y, additional, Ashida, Y, additional, Hayashino, T, additional, Hirota, S, additional, Kikawa, T, additional, Mori, M, additional, Nakamura, K E, additional, Nakaya, T, additional, Wendell, R A, additional, Anthony, L H V, additional, McCauley, N, additional, Pritchard, A, additional, Tsui, K M, additional, Fukuda, Y, additional, Itow, Y, additional, Murrase, M, additional, Mijakowski, P, additional, Frankiewicz, K, additional, Jung, C K, additional, Li, X, additional, Palomino, J L, additional, Santucci, G, additional, Vilela, C, additional, Wilking, M J, additional, Yanagisawa, C, additional, Fukuda, D, additional, Hagiwara, K, additional, Ishino, H, additional, Ito, S, additional, Koshio, Y, additional, Sakuda, M, additional, Takahira, Y, additional, Xu, C, additional, Kuno, Y, additional, Simpson, C, additional, Wark, D, additional, Di Lodovico, F, additional, Richards, B, additional, Molina Sedgwick, S, additional, Tacik, R, additional, Kim, S B, additional, Thiesse, M, additional, Thompson, L, additional, Okazawa, H, additional, Choi, Y, additional, Nishijima, K, additional, Koshiba, M, additional, Yokoyama, M, additional, Goldsack, A, additional, Martens, K, additional, Murdoch, M, additional, Quilain, B, additional, Suzuki, Y, additional, Vagins, M R, additional, Kuze, M, additional, Okajima, Y, additional, Yoshida, T, additional, Ishitsuka, M, additional, Martin, J F, additional, Nantais, C M, additional, Tanaka, H A, additional, Towstego, T, additional, Hartz, M, additional, Konaka, A, additional, de Perio, P, additional, Chen, S, additional, Wan, L, additional, and Minamino, A, additional
Published: 2019
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