1. Search for Nucleon Decay into Charged Anti-lepton plus Meson in Super-Kamiokande I and II
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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.
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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
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- 2012
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