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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. Precision Measurement of the Specific Activity of $^{39}$Ar in Atmospheric Argon with the DEAP-3600 Detector

Author: Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Alpízar-Venegas, M., Amaudruz, P. -A., Anstey, J., Araujo, G. R., Auty, D. J., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Benmansour, H., Bina, C. E., Bonatt, J., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cadeddu, M., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Choudhary, S., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Crampton, R., Cranshaw, D., Daughtery, S., DelGobbo, P., Dering, K., Di Stefano, P., DiGioseffo, J., Dolganov, G., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Ellingwood, E., Erlandson, A., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Giménez-Alcázar, A., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Haskins, S., Hearns, C., Hu, J., Hucker, J., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Jillings, C. J., Joy, A., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., La Zia, F., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Leonhardt, A., LePage-Bourbonnais, J., Levashko, N., Lidgard, J., Lindner, T., Lissia, M., Lock, J., Machulin, I., Majewski, P., Maru, A., Mason, J., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Mirasola, L., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Oliviéro, G., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Papi, D., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Perry, M., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rad, F., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., García, I. Rodríguez, Roszkowski, L., Ruhland, J. B., Santorelli, R., Schuckman II, F. G., Seeburn, N., Seth, S., Shalamova, V., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, N. J. T., Smith, B., Sobotkiewich, K., Sonley, T., Sosiak, J., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Tang, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Vyas, B., Walczak, M., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The specific activity of the beta decay of $^{39}$Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, uses a total of (3269 $\pm$ 24) kg of liquid argon distilled from the atmosphere to search for dark matter. This detector with very low background uses pulseshape discrimination to differentiate between nuclear recoils and electron recoils and is well-suited to measure the decay of $^{39}$Ar. With 167 live-days of data, the measured specific activity at the time of atmospheric extraction is [0.964 $\pm$ 0.001 (stat) $\pm$ 0.024 (sys)] Bq/kg$_{\rm atmAr}$ which is consistent with results from other experiments. A cross-check analysis using different event selection criteria provides a consistent result.
Published: 2023
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3. 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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4. 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

5. Pulseshape discrimination against low-energy Ar-39 beta decays in liquid argon with 4.5 tonne-years of DEAP-3600 data

Author: The DEAP Collaboration, Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Alpízar-Venegas, M., Amaudruz, P. -A., Auty, D. J., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Benmansour, H., Bina, C. E., Bonatt, J., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cadeddu, M., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Cranshaw, D., Daugherty, S., DelGobbo, P., Dering, K., DiGioseffo, J., Di Stefano, P., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Ellingwood, E., Erlandson, A., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Florian, S., Flower, T., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Joy, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Leonhardt, A., Levashko, N., Li, X., Lidgard, J., Lindner, T., Lissia, M., Lock, J., Longo, G., Machulin, I., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Oliviéro, G., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Perry, M., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Rodríguez-García, I., Roszkowski, L., Ruhland, J. B., Sánchez-García, E., Santorelli, R., Sinclair, D., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Tang, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from $^{39}$Ar beta decays and is suppressed using pulseshape discrimination (PSD). We use two types of PSD algorithm: the prompt-fraction, which considers the fraction of the scintillation signal in a narrow and a wide time window around the event peak, and the log-likelihood-ratio, which compares the observed photon arrival times to a signal and a background model. We furthermore use two algorithms to determine the number of photons detected at a given time: (1) simply dividing the charge of each PMT pulse by the charge of a single photoelectron, and (2) a likelihood analysis that considers the probability to detect a certain number of photons at a given time, based on a model for the scintillation pulseshape and for afterpulsing in the light detectors. The prompt-fraction performs approximately as well as the log-likelihood-ratio PSD algorithm if the photon detection times are not biased by detector effects. We explain this result using a model for the information carried by scintillation photons as a function of the time when they are detected., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021
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6. 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

7. 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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8. Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Center and Halo with the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Bronner, C., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Imaizumi, S., Ito, H., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, Ll., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nagao, Y., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakajima, T., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Tasaka, S., Tomura, T., Ueno, K., Yano, T., Yokozawa, T., Akutsu, R., Han, S., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Lee, K. P., McLachlan, T., Okumura, K., Richard, E., Tashiro, T., Wang, R., Xia, J., Bravo-Berguño, D., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., 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., Berkman, S., Tobayama, S., Bian, J., Carminati, G., Elnimr, M., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Weatherly, P., 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., Coffani, A., Drapier, O., Hedri, S. El, Giampaolo, A., Gonin, M., 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., 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., Ospina, N., Ludovici, L., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Zsoldos, S., Nishimura, Y., 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., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Nakano, Y., Shiozawa, T., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yamamoto, S., Ali, A., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hiraki, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, 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., McCauley, N., Mehta, P., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Menjo, H., Mitsuka, G., Murase, M., Muto, F., Niwa, T., Sato, K., Suzuki, T., Taani, M., Tsukada, z M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Hignight, 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., Koshio, Y., Ma, W., Mori, T., Nagata, H., Piplani, N., Sakuda, M., Seiya, S., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Yamaguchi, R., Kuno, Y., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Tacik, R., Yang, J. Y., Cole, A., Jenkins, S. J., McElwee, J., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Kim, S. B., Choi, Y., Ito, K., Nishijima, K., Iwamoto, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Yokoyama, M., Calland, R. G., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Hamabe, D., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., 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., Zhang, Y., Richards, B., Connolly, K., Wilkes, R. J., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Giorgio, P., Minamino, A., and Pintaudi, G.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for an excess of neutrino interactions due to dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the galactic center or halo based on the data set of Super-Kamiokande-I, -II, -III and -IV taken from 1996 to 2016. We model the neutrino flux, energy, and flavor distributions assuming WIMP self-annihilation is dominant to $\nu \overline{\nu}$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, $b\overline{b}$, or $W^+W^-$. The excess is in comparison to atmospheric neutrino interactions which are modeled in detail and fit to data. Limits on the self-annihilation cross section $\langle \sigma_{A} V \rangle$ are derived for WIMP masses in the range 1 GeV to 10 TeV, reaching as low as $9.6 \times10^{-23}$ cm$^3$ s$^{-1}$ for 5 GeV WIMPs in $b\bar b$ mode and $1.2 \times10^{-24}$ cm$^3$ s$^{-1}$ for 1 GeV WIMPs in $\nu \bar \nu$ mode. The obtained sensitivity of the Super-Kamiokande detector to WIMP masses below several tens of GeV is the best among similar indirect searches to date., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2020
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9. Measurements of $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} + \nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross-sections without detected pions nor protons on water and hydrocarbon at mean antineutrino energy of 0.86 GeV

Author: Abe, K., Akhlaq, N., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Arihara, T., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bonus, T., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguño, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bron, S., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Cicerchia, M., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Doyle, T. A., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eguchi, A., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Fusshoeller, K., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hassani, S., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Honjo, T., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Izumi, N., Jakkapu, M., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Junjie, X., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, K., Kataoka, Y., Katayama, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kikutani, H., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobata, T., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kostin, A., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Last, D., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marti-Magro, L., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mauger, C., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McElwee, J., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Naseby, C. E. R., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Ogawa, T., Okada, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Pari, M., Parker, W. C., Parsa, S., Pasternak, J., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Pintaudi, G., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Ruggles, C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Santucci, G., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Tanihara, Y., Teshima, N., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the flux-integrated $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ and $\bar{\nu}_\mu+\nu_\mu$ charged-current cross-sections on water and hydrocarbon targets using the T2K anti-neutrino beam, with a mean neutrino energy of 0.86 GeV. The signal is defined as the (anti-)neutrino charged-current interaction with one induced $\mu^\pm$ and no detected charged pion nor proton. These measurements are performed using a new WAGASCI module recently added to the T2K setup in combination with the INGRID Proton module. The phase space of muons is restricted to the high-detection efficiency region, $p_{\mu}>400~{\rm MeV}/c$ and $\theta_{\mu}<30^{\circ}$, in the laboratory frame. Absence of pions and protons in the detectable phase space of "$p_{\pi}>200~{\rm MeV}/c$ and $\theta_{\pi}<70^{\circ}$", and "$p_{\rm p}>600~{\rm MeV}/c$ and $\theta_{\rm p}<70^{\circ}$" is required. In this paper, both of the $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ cross-sections and $\bar{\nu}_\mu+\nu_\mu$ cross-sections on water and hydrocarbon targets, and their ratios are provided by using D'Agostini unfolding method. The results of the integrated $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ cross-section measurements over this phase space are $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}\,=\,(1.082\pm0.068(\rm stat.)^{+0.145}_{-0.128}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}~{\rm cm^{2}/nucleon}$, $\sigma_{\rm CH}\,=\,(1.096\pm0.054(\rm stat.)^{+0.132}_{-0.117}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}~{\rm cm^{2}/nucleon}$, and $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}/\sigma_{\rm CH} = 0.987\pm0.078(\rm stat.)^{+0.093}_{-0.090}(\rm syst.)$. The $\bar{\nu}_\mu+\nu_\mu$ cross-section is $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O} = (1.155\pm0.064(\rm stat.)^{+0.148}_{-0.129}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}~{\rm cm^{2}/nucleon}$, $\sigma_{\rm CH}\,=\,(1.159\pm0.049(\rm stat.)^{+0.129}_{-0.115}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}~{\rm cm^{2}/nucleon}$, and $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}/\sigma_{\rm CH}\,=\,0.996\pm0.069(\rm stat.)^{+0.083}_{-0.078}(\rm syst.)$.
Published: 2020
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10. Measurement of the charged-current electron (anti-)neutrino inclusive cross-sections at the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

Author: Abe, K., Akhlaq, N., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Arihara, T., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bonus, T., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguño, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bron, S., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Cicerchia, M., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Doyle, T. A., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eguchi, A., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Fusshoeller, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hassani, S., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Honjo, T., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Izumi, N., Jakkapu, M., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Jurj, P. B., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, S. P., Kataoka, Y., Katayama, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kikutani, H., Kim, H., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobata, T., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kostin, A., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Last, D., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marti-Magro, L., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mauger, C., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McElwee, J., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Naseby, C. E. R., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Ogawa, T., Okada, R., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Pari, M., Parker, W. C., Parsa, S., Pasternak, J., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Pintaudi, G., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Ruggles, C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Santucci, G., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Skwarczynski, K., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Tanihara, Y., Tani, M., Teshima, N., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Xia, J., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The electron (anti-)neutrino component of the T2K neutrino beam constitutes the largest background in the measurement of electron (anti-)neutrino appearance at the far detector. The electron neutrino scattering is measured directly with the T2K off-axis near detector, ND280. The selection of the electron (anti-)neutrino events in the plastic scintillator target from both neutrino and anti-neutrino mode beams is discussed in this paper. The flux integrated single differential charged-current inclusive electron (anti-)neutrino cross-sections, $d\sigma/dp$ and $d\sigma/d\cos(\theta)$, and the total cross-sections in a limited phase-space in momentum and scattering angle ($p > 300$ MeV/c and $\theta \leq 45^{\circ}$) are measured using a binned maximum likelihood fit and compared to the neutrino Monte Carlo generator predictions, resulting in good agreement.
Published: 2020
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11. First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Arihara, T., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguño, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bron, S., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Cicerchia, M., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Doyle, T. A., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eguchi, A., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Fusshoeller, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hassani, S., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jakkapu, M., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Junjie, X., Jurj, P. B., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, K., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kikutani, H., Kim, H., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kostin, A., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marti-Magro, L., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McElwee, J., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Naseby, C. E. R., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Parsa, S., Pasternak, J., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Pintaudi, G., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Ruggles, C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Santucci, G., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents the first combined measurement of the double-differential muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections with no pions in the final state on hydrocarbon at the off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The data analyzed in this work comprise 5.8$\times$10$^{20}$ and 6.3$\times$10$^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino and antineutrino mode respectively, at a beam energy peak of 0.6 GeV. Using the two measured cross sections, the sum, difference and asymmetry were calculated with the aim of better understanding the nuclear effects involved in such interactions. The extracted measurements have been compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo generators and theoretical models showing that the difference between the two cross sections have interesting sensitivity to nuclear effects.
Published: 2020
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12. The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600

Author: The DEAP collaboration, Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Batygov, G. R. Araujoand M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Dering, S. J. Daughertyand K., Doria, L., Dunford, F. A. Duncan andM., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Garcés, E. A., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Ilyasov, A., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Machulin, I., Majewski, P., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., Oliviéro, G., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., García, E. Sanchez, Sánchez-Pastor, T., Santorelli, R., Seeburn, N., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and pulseshape discrimination (PSD) is used to suppress electromagnetic background events. The excellent PSD performance of LAr makes it a viable target for dark matter searches, and the LAr scintillation pulseshape discussed here is the basis of PSD. The observed pulseshape is a combination of LAr scintillation physics with detector effects. We present a model for the pulseshape of electromagnetic background events in the energy region of interest for dark matter searches. The model is composed of a) LAr scintillation physics, including the so-called intermediate component, b) the time response of the TPB wavelength shifter, including delayed TPB emission at $\mathcal O$(ms) time-scales, and c) PMT response. TPB is the wavelength shifter of choice in most LAr detectors. We find that approximately 10\% of the intensity of the wavelength-shifted light is in a long-lived state of TPB. This causes light from an event to spill into subsequent events to an extent not usually accounted for in the design and data analysis of LAr-based detectors.
Published: 2020
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13. Search for proton decay into three charged leptons in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of the Super-Kamiokande

Author: Collaboration, Super-Kamiokande, Tanaka, M., 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., 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., 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, 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., Catanesi, M. G., Radicioni, E., Calabria, N. F., 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., Mehta, P., 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., Hagiwara, K., Horai, T., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Barrow, D., Cook, L., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Nova, F., Boschi, T., Di Lodovico, F., Sedgwick, S. Molina, Zsoldos, S., Kim, S. B., Yang, J. Y., 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., 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., Prouse, N. W., Chen, S., Xu, B. D., Richards, B., Jamieson, B., Walker, J., Minamino, A., and Pintaudi, G.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for proton decay into three charged leptons has been performed by using 0.37$\,$Mton$\cdot$years of data collected in Super-Kamiokande. All possible combinations of electrons, muons and their anti-particles consistent with charge conservation were considered as decay modes. No significant excess of events has been found over the background, and lower limits on the proton lifetime divided by the branching ratio have been obtained. The limits range between $9.2\times10^{33}$ to $3.4\times10^{34}$ years at 90$\,$% confidence level, improving by more than an order of magnitude upon limits from previous experiments. A first limit has been set for the $p\rightarrow\mu^-e^+e^+$ mode.
Published: 2020
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14. Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance in a Long-baseline Muon Antineutrino Beam

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguno, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., DeRosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., DiLodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Doyle, T. A., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Fusshoeller, K., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., HongVan, N. T., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jakkapu, M., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesus-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, S. P., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kostin, A., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Marti-Magro, L., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Pasternak, J., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Pintaudi, G., PinzonGuerra, E. S., Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Ruggles, C. A., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez, F., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of the PMNS mixing matrix. T2K observes 15 candidate electron antineutrino events with a background expectation of 9.3 events. Including information from the kinematic distribution of observed events, the hypothesis of no electron antineutrino appearance is disfavored with a significance of 2.40{\sigma} and no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions is found. A complementary analysis that introduces an additional free parameter which allows non-PMNS values of electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance also finds no discrepancy between data and PMNS predictions., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.09439
Published: 2019
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15. Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino neutral-current quasielastic-like interactions on oxygen by detecting nuclear de-excitation $\gamma$-rays

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguño, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, S. P., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutrino- and antineutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic-like interactions are measured at Super-Kamiokande using nuclear de-excitation $\gamma$-rays to identify signal-like interactions in data from a $14.94 \ (16.35)\times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target exposure of the T2K neutrino (antineutrino) beam. The measured flux-averaged cross sections on oxygen nuclei are $\langle \sigma_{\nu {\rm -NCQE}} \rangle = 1.70 \pm 0.17 ({\rm stat.}) ^{+ {\rm 0.51}}_{- {\rm 0.38}} ({\rm syst.}) \times 10^{-38} \ {\rm cm^2/oxygen}$ with a flux-averaged energy of 0.82 GeV and $\langle \sigma_{\bar{\nu} {\rm -NCQE}} \rangle = 0.98 \pm 0.16 ({\rm stat.}) ^{+ {\rm 0.26}}_{- {\rm 0.19}} ({\rm syst.}) \times 10^{-38} \ {\rm cm^2/oxygen}$ with a flux-averaged energy of 0.68 GeV, for neutrinos and antineutrinos, respectively. These results are the most precise to date, and the antineutrino result is the first cross section measurement of this channel. They are compared with various theoretical predictions. The impact on evaluation of backgrounds to searches for supernova relic neutrinos at present and future water Cherenkov detectors is also discussed., Comment: 19 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2019
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16. 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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17. Constraint on the Matter-Antimatter Symmetry-Violating Phase in Neutrino Oscillations

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Berguño, D. Bravo, Bronner, C., Bubak, A., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kasetti, S. P., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Odagawa, T., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Pintaudi, G., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The current laws of physics do not explain the observed imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe. Sakharov proposed that an explanation would require the violation of CP symmetry between matter and antimatter. The only CP violation observed so far is in the weak interactions of quarks, and it is too small to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe. It has been shown that CP violation in the lepton sector could generate the matter-antimatter disparity through the process called leptogenesis. The quantum mixing of neutrinos, the neutral leptons in the Standard Model, provides a potential source of CP violation through a complex phase dCP, which may have consequences for theoretical models of leptogenesis. This CP violation can be measured in muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations and the corresponding antineutrino oscillations, which are experimentally accessible with accelerator-produced beams as established by the T2K experiment. Until now, the value of dCP has not been significantly constrained by neutrino oscillation experiments. Here the T2K collaboration reports a measurement that favors large enhancement of the neutrino oscillation probability, excluding values of dCP which result in a large enhancement of the observed anti-neutrino oscillation probability at three standard deviations (3 sigma). The 3 sigma confidence level interval for dCP, which is cyclic and repeats every 2pi, is [-3.41,-0.03] for the so-called normal mass ordering, and [-2.54,-0.32] for the inverted mass ordering. Our results show an indication of CP violation in the lepton sector. Herein we establish methods for sensitive searches for matter-antimatter asymmetry in neutrino oscillations using accelerator-produced neutrino beams. Future measurements with larger data samples will determine whether the leptonic CP violation is larger than the quark sector CP violation.
Published: 2019
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18. Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single $\pi^+$ production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, T., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesus-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litcheld, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Machado, L. N., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Nielsen, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Ovsyannikova, S. M. Oser T., Owen, R. A., Oyam, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, Y. Petrov L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Porwit, B. Popov K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Rato, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the measurements of single and double differential cross section of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon with a single positively charged pion in the final state at the T2K off-axis near detector using $5.56\times10^{20}$ protons on target. The analysis uses data control samples for the background subtraction and the cross section signal, defined as a single negatively charged muon and a single positively charged pion exiting from the target nucleus, is extracted using an unfolding method. The model dependent cross section, integrated over the T2K off-axis neutrino beam spectrum peaking at $0.6$~GeV, is measured to be $\sigma = (11.76 \pm 0.44 \text{(stat)} \pm 2.39 \text{(syst)}) \times 10^{-40} \text{cm}^2$~$\text{nucleon}^{-1}$. Various differential cross sections are measured, including the first measurement of the Adler angles for single charged pion production in neutrino interactions with heavy nuclei target.
Published: 2019
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19. First Measurement of the Charged Current $\overline{\nu}_{\mu}$ Double Differential Cross Section on a Water Target without Pions in the final state

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Atkin, E. T., Awataguchi, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Beloshapkin, A., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cook, L., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jenkins, S. J., Jesús-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kukita, N., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S. L., Li, X., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Munteanu, L., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Penn, G. C., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Shorrock, W., Shvartsman, A., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, S., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Valder, S., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vinning, W. G. S., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walsh, J. G., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current $\overline{\nu}_{\mu}$ interaction cross section on water with no pions in the final state. The unfolded flux-averaged measurement using the T2K off-axis near detector is given in double differential bins of $\mu^+$ momentum and angle. The integrated cross section in a restricted phase space is $\sigma=\left(1.11\pm0.18\right)\times10^{-38}$ cm$^{2}$ per water molecule. Comparisons with several nuclear models are also presented., Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2019
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20. 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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21. J-PARC Neutrino Beamline Upgrade Technical Design Report

Author: Abe, K., Aihara, H., Ajmi, A., Alt, C., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atherton, A., Atkin, E., Ban, S., Barbato, F. C. T., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Batkiewicz, M., Beloshapkin, A., Berardi, V., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bian, J., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Borg, J., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bron, S., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calabria, N. F., Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Calvet, D., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Cicerchia, M., Clifton, A., Cogo, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., Delbart, A., De Roeck, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Dell'acqua, A., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Dokania, N., Doqua, D., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P. J., Dziewiecki, M., Eklund, L., Emery-Schrenk, S., Fedotov, S., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Fusshoeller, K., Gendotti, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Gramegna, F., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hallsjö, S. -P., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kasetti, S., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Last, D., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Liu, S., Long, K. R., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Magro, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marchi, T., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mauger, C., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Mijakowski, P., Mijakowski, J., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Ngoc, T. V., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T., Nova, F., Novella, P., Nowak, J., Nugent, J. C., O'Keeffe, H. M., Odagawa, T., Ohta, R., Okamoto, K., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Paolone, V., Pari, M., Parker, W., Parsa, S., Pasternak, J., Pastore, C., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Pozimski, J., Przewlocki, P., Przybilsk, H., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Ruggles, C. A., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shaikina, A., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Shorrock, W., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Soler, F. J. P., Southwell, L., Spina, R., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Swierblewski, J., Szeptycka, M., Szoldos, S., Sztuc, A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, M. A., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Van, N. H., Vasseur, G., Viant, T., Vilela, C., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wood, K., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Hamada, E., Higashi, N., Hirose, E., Igarashi, Y., Iida, M., Iio, M., Ikeno, M., Kimura, N., Kurosawa, N., Makida, Y., Nakamoto, T., Ogitsu, T., Ohhata, H., Okada, R., Okamura, T., Onaka, M., Sasaki, K., Shimazaki, S., Shoji, M., Sugano, M., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Terashima, A., Tomaru, T., Uchida, T., and Yoshida, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In this document, technical details of the upgrade plan of the J-PARC neutrino beamline for the extension of the T2K experiment are described. T2K has proposed to accumulate data corresponding to $2\times{}10^{22}$ protons-on-target in the next decade, aiming at an initial observation of CP violation with $3\sigma$ or higher significance in the case of maximal CP violation. Methods to increase the neutrino beam intensity, which are necessary to achieve the proposed data increase, are described.
Published: 2019

22. Electromagnetic Backgrounds and Potassium-42 Activity in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

Author: Ajaj, R., Araujo, G. R., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Dering, K., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gallacher, D., Abia, P. García, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Majewski, P., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., García, E. Sanchez, Santorelli, R., Seeburn, N., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for WIMP dark matter with a 3.3 tonne single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located 2.1 km underground at SNOLAB. The experimental signature of dark matter interactions is keV-scale $^{40}$Ar nuclear recoils (NR) producing 128 nm LAr scintillation photons observed by PMTs. The largest backgrounds in DEAP-3600 are electronic recoils (ER) induced by $\beta$ and $\gamma$-rays originating from internal and external radioactivity in the detector material. A background model of the ER interactions in DEAP-3600 was developed and is described in this work. The model is based on several components which are expected from radioisotopes in the LAr, from ex-situ material assay measurements, and from dedicated independent in-situ analyses. This prior information is used in a Bayesian fit of the ER components to a 247.2 d dataset to model the radioactivity in the surrounding detector materials. While excellent discrimination between ERs and NRs is reached with pulse shape discrimination, utilizing the large difference between fast and slow components of LAr scintillation light, detailed knowledge of the ER background and activity of detector components, sets valuable constraints on other key types of backgrounds in the detector: neutrons and alphas. In addition, the activity of $^{42}$Ar in LAr in DEAP-3600 is determined by measuring the daughter decay of $^{42}$K. This cosmogenically activated trace isotope is a relevant background at higher energies for other rare event searches using atmospheric argon e.g. DarkSide-20k, GERDA or LEGEND. The specific activity of $^{42}$Ar in the atmosphere is found to be $40.4 \pm 5.9$ $\mu$Bq/kg of argon.
Published: 2019
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23. Measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, iron, and their ratios with the T2K on-axis detectors

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Awataguchi, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondely, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulouy, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Hosomi, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jesus, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report a measurement of the flux-integrated $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of 1.5 GeV. The measured cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron are $\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}}$ = (0.840$\pm 0.010$(stat.)$^{+0.10}_{-0.08}$(syst.))$\times$10$^{-38}$cm$^2$/nucleon, $\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}}$ = (0.817$\pm 0.007$(stat.)$^{+0.11}_{-0.08}$(syst.))$\times$10$^{-38}$cm$^2$/nucleon, and $\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}}$ = (0.859$\pm 0.003$(stat.) $^{+0.12}_{-0.10}$(syst.))$\times$10$^{-38}$cm$^2$/nucleon respectively, for a restricted phase space of induced muons: $\theta_{\mu}<45^{\circ}$ and $p_{\mu}>$0.4 GeV/$c$ in the laboratory frame. The measured cross section ratios are ${\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}}}$ = 1.028$\pm 0.016$(stat.)$\pm 0.053$(syst.), ${\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}}}$ = 1.023$\pm 0.012$(stat.)$\pm 0.058$(syst.), and ${\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}}}$ = 1.049$\pm 0.010$(stat.)$\pm 0.043$(syst.). These results, with an unprecedented precision for the measurements of neutrino cross sections on water in the studied energy region, show good agreement with the current neutrino interaction models used in the T2K oscillation analyses.
Published: 2019
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24. Measurement of $\gamma$-ray production via the neutron-$^{16}$O reaction using a 77 MeV quasi-monoenergetic neutron beam

Author: Ashida, Y., Nagata, H., Mori, M., Collazuol, G., Fukuda, D., Horai, T., Iacob, F., Konaka, A., Koshio, Y., Nakaya, T., Nantais, C., Shima, T., Suzuki, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H., Wendell, R., and Yano, T.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Understanding of $\gamma$-ray production via neutron interactions on oxygen is essential for the study of neutrino neutral-current quasielastic interactions in water Cherenkov detectors. A measurement of $\gamma$-ray production from such reactions was performed using a 77~MeV quasi-monoenergetic neutron beam. Several $\gamma$-ray peaks, which are expected to come from neutron-${\rm ^{16}O}$ reactions, are observed and production cross sections are measured for nine $\gamma$-ray components of energies between 2 and 8~MeV. These are the first measurements at this neutron energy using a nearly monoenergetic beam., Comment: 17 pages, 20 figures, 5 tables
Published: 2019

25. Search for heavy neutrinos with the T2K near detector ND280

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Awataguchi, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Hosomi, F., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jesus, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports on the search for heavy neutrinos with masses in the range $140 < M_N < 493$ MeV/c$^2$ using the off-axis near detector ND280 of the T2K experiment. These particles can be produced from kaon decays in the standard neutrino beam and then subsequently decay in ND280. The decay modes under consideration are $N \to \ell^{\pm}_{\alpha} \pi^{\mp}$ and $N \to \ell^+_{\alpha} \ell^-_{\beta} \nu (\bar\nu)$ ($\alpha,\beta=e,\mu$). A search for such events has been made using the Time Projection Chambers of ND280, where the background has been reduced to less than two events in the current dataset in all channels. No excess has been observed in the signal region. A combined Bayesian statistical approach has been applied to extract upper limits on the mixing elements of heavy neutrinos to electron-, muon- and tau- flavoured currents ($U_e^2$, $U_{\mu}^2$, $U_{\tau}^2$) as a function of the heavy neutrino mass, e.g. $U_e^2 < 10^{-9}$ at $90\%$ C.L. for a mass of $390$ MeV/c$^2$. These constraints are competitive with previous experiments., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures Version submitted to PRD: https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.052006
Published: 2019
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26. Search for light sterile neutrinos with the T2K far detector Super-Kamiokande at a baseline of 295 km

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Awataguchi, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Hosomi, F., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jesus, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Bueno, L. Molina, Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Radics, B., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Schloesser, C. M., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7 (7.6)$\times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. A selection of neutral current interaction samples are also used to enhance the sensitivity to sterile mixing. No evidence of sterile neutrino mixing in the 3+1 model was found from a simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon, electron and neutral current neutrino samples. We set the most stringent limit on the sterile oscillation amplitude $\sin^2\theta_{24}$ for the sterile neutrino mass splitting $\Delta m^2_{41}<3\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2/c^4$., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2019
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27. Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Awataguchi, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Van, N. T. Hong, Hosomi, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jesus, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W. C., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shaykina, A., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutrino neutral-current induced single photon production is a sub-leading order process for accelerator-based neutrino beam experiments including T2K. It is, however, an important process to understand because it is a background for electron (anti)neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. Here, we performed the first search of this process below 1 GeV using the fine-grained detector at the T2K ND280 off-axis near detector. By reconstructing single photon kinematics from electron-positron pairs, we achieved 95\% pure gamma ray sample from 5.738$\times 10^{20}$ protons-on-targets neutrino mode data. We do not find positive evidence of neutral current induced single photon production in this sample. We set the model-dependent upper limit on the cross-section for this process, at 0.114$\times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ (90\% C.L.) per nucleon, using the J-PARC off-axis neutrino beam with an average energy of $\left\sim 0.6$ GeV. This is the first limit on this process below 1 GeV which is important for current and future oscillation experiments looking for electron neutrino appearance oscillation signals., Comment: 5 figures, 1 table
Published: 2019
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28. Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

Author: Ajaj, R., Amaudruz, P. -A., Araujo, G. R., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bonatt, J., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., DiGioseffo, J., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Garcés, E. A., Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, X., Lidgard, J., Lindner, T., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Majewski, P., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Tang, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) direct-detection dark matter experiment, operating 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). The detector consists of 3279 kg of LAr contained in a spherical acrylic vessel. This paper reports on the analysis of a 758 tonne\cdot day exposure taken over a period of 231 live-days during the first year of operation. No candidate signal events are observed in the WIMP-search region of interest, which results in the leading limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section on a LAr target of $3.9\times10^{-45}$ cm$^{2}$ ($1.5\times10^{-44}$ cm$^{2}$) for a 100 GeV/c$^{2}$ (1 TeV/c$^{2}$) WIMP mass at 90\% C. L. In addition to a detailed background model, this analysis demonstrates the best pulse-shape discrimination in LAr at threshold, employs a Bayesian photoelectron-counting technique to improve the energy resolution and discrimination efficiency, and utilizes two position reconstruction algorithms based on PMT charge and photon arrival times.
Published: 2019
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29. 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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30. T2K ND280 Upgrade -- Technical Design Report

Author: Abe, K., Aihara, H., Ajmi, A., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Asada, Y., Ashida, Y., Atherton, A., Atkin, E., Attié, D., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Batkiewicz, M., Beloshapkin, A., Berardi, V., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bian, J., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Boix, J., Bolognesi, S., Borg, J., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Browning, D., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Cadoux, F., Calabria, N. F., Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Calvet, D., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Castillo, R., Catanesi, M. G., Ceria, W., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Cicerchia, M., Clifton, A., Cogo, G., Colas, P., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., Delbart, A., De Roeck, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., de Oliveira, R., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Douqa, D., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P. J., Dziewiecki, M., Emery-Schrenk, S., Evangelisti, A., Favre, Y., Fedotov, S., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, R., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Gonin, M., Gorin, A., Gramegna, F., Guida, M., Guigue, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Howell, R., Holeczek, J., Iacob, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jesus-Valls, C., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jo, J. H., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Kasetti, S., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kikawa, T., Kim, H., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Kose, U., Kostin, A., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kropp, W., Kudenko, Y., Kuribayashi, S., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Liu, S., Long, K. R., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Loverre, P. F., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Lux, T., Magaletti, L., Magro, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Marchi, T., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Marzec, J., Matsubara, T., Matsushita, K., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mehl, B., Mermod, P., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Michalowski, J., Mijakowski, P., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Mladenov, D., Monsalvo, S., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Mundet, J., Munteanu, L., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, A., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Machado, L. Nascimento, Nessi, M., Ngoc, T. V., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nonnenmacher, T., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Odagawa, T., Ohta, R., Okamoto, K., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Orain, Y., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parraud, J. M., Pari, M., Parker, W., Parsa, S., Pasternak, J., Pastore, C., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pepato, A., Perkin, J. D., Pietropaolo, F., Pickard, L., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pizzirusso, O., Popov, B., Porthault, J., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Pozimski, J., Przewlocki, P., Przybilski, H., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A. M., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Resnati, F., Riallot, M., Riccio, C., Rojas, P., Romanino, G., Rondio, E., Rossi, F., Roth, S., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shaikina, A., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Shorrock, W., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Southwell, L., Spina, R., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Szeptycka, M., Szoldos, S., Sztuc, A., Swierblewski, J., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Tajima, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Teklu, A., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, M. A., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Van, N. H., Vargas, D., Vasseur, G., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Whitehead, L., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zilberman, P., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In this document, we present the Technical Design Report of the Upgrade of the T2K Near Detector ND280. The goal of this upgrade is to improve the Near Detector performance to measure the neutrino interaction rate and to constrain the neutrino interaction cross-sections so that the uncertainty in the number of predicted events at Super-Kamiokande is reduced to about 4%. This will allow to improve the physics reach of the T2K-II project. This goal is achieved by modifying the upstream part of the detector, adding a new highly granular scintillator detector (Super-FGD), two new TPCs (High-Angle TPC) and six TOF planes. Details about the detector concepts, design and construction methods are presented, as well as a first look at the test-beam data taken in Summer 2018. An update of the physics studies is also presented., Comment: 196 pages
Published: 2019

31. 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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32. 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

33. Search for CP violation in Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations by the T2K experiment with $2.2\times10^{21}$ protons on target

Author: Abe, K., Akutsu, R., Ali, A., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Bench, F., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dokania, N., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fujita, R., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Gameil, K., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiramoto, A., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Ishitsuka, M., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kato, Y., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kubo, H., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Maruyama, T., Matsubara, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Murphy, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Nonnenmacher, T. S., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, L., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Pickering, L., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Porwit, K., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Rubbia, A., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Sonoda, Y., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Sztuc, A. A., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Touramanis, C., Tsui, K. M., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Volkov, V. V., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yang, G., Yano, T., Yasutome, K., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Zarnecki, G., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The T2K experiment measures muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance in accelerator-produced neutrino and antineutrino beams. With an exposure of $14.7(7.6)\times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode, 89 $\nu_e$ candidates and 7 anti-$\nu_e$ candidates were observed while 67.5 and 9.0 are expected for $\delta_{CP}=0$ and normal mass ordering. The obtained $2\sigma$ confidence interval for the $CP$ violating phase, $\delta_{CP}$, does not include the $CP$-conserving cases ($\delta_{CP}=0,\pi$). The best-fit values of other parameters are $\sin^2\theta_{23} = 0.526^{+0.032}_{-0.036}$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}=2.463^{+0.071}_{-0.070}\times10^{-3} \mathrm{eV}^2/c^4$., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2018
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34. Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report

Author: Proto-Collaboration, Hyper-Kamiokande, Abe, K., Abe, Ke., Aihara, H., Aimi, A., Akutsu, R., Andreopoulos, C., Anghel, I., Anthony, L. H. V., Antonova, M., Ashida, Y., Aushev, V., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Beltrame, P., Berardi, V., Bergevin, M., Berkman, S., Berns, L., Berry, T., Bhadra, S., Bravo-Berguño, D., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Cafagna, F. S., Cole, A., Calland, R., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Checchia, C., Chen-Wishart, Z., Choi, J. H., Choi, K., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Cowan, G., Cremonesi, L., Dealtry, T., De Rosa, G., Densham, C., Dewhurst, D., Drakopoulou, E. L., Di Lodovico, F., Drapier, O., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Dziewiecki, M., Emery, S., Esmaili, A., Evangelisti, A., Fernandez-Martinez, E., Feusels, T., Finch, A., Fiorentini, A., Fiorillo, G., Fitton, M., Frankiewicz, K., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Fukuda, D., Ganezer, K., Giganti, C., Gonin, M., Grant, N., Gumplinger, P., Hadley, D. R., Hartfiel, B., Hartz, M., Hayato, Y., Hayrapetyan, K., Hill, J., Hirota, S., Horiuchi, S., Ichikawa, A. K., Iijima, T., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, K., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ioannisian, A., Ishida, T., Ishino, H., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jang, H. I., Jang, J. S., Jeon, S. H., Jiang, M., Jonsson, P., Joo, K. K., Kaboth, A., Kachulis, C., Kajita, T., Kameda, J., Kataoka, Y., Katori, T., Kayrapetyan, K., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, J. H., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kim, S. Y., King, S., Kishimoto, Y., Kobayashi, T., Koga, M., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Korzenev, A., Kowalik, K. L., Kropp, W. R., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lasorak, P. J. J., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Learned, J. G., Lim, I. T., Lindner, T., Litchfield, R. P., Longhin, A., Loverre, P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Ma, W., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Maret, L., Mariani, C., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Martin, J. F., Marzec, J., Matsuno, S., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Mermod, P., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Migenda, J., Mijakowski, P., Minakata, H., Minamino, A., Mine, S., Mineev, O., Mitra, A., Miura, M., Mochizuki, T., Monroe, J., Moon, D. H., Moriyama, S., Mueller, T., Muheim, F., Murase, K., Muto, F., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Nakayama, S., Nantais, C., Needham, M., Nicholls, T., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nova, F., Nowak, J., Nunokawa, H., Obayashi, Y., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okajima, Y., Okumura, K., Onishchuk, Yu., O'Sullivan, E., O'Sullivan, L., Ovsiannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Pac, M. Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Parker, W., Parsa, S., Payne, D., Perkin, J. D., Pidcott, C., Guerra, E. Pinzon, Playfer, S., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. M., Pritchard, A., Prouse, N. W., Pronost, G., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Retiere, F., Riccio, C., Richards, B., Rondio, E., Rose, H. J., Rott, C., Rountree, S. D., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sacco, R., Sakuda, M., Sanchez, M. C., Scantamburlo, E., Scott, M., Sedgwick, S. M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Seo, S. H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shimizu, I., Shiozawa, M., Shitov, Y., Short, S., Simpson, C., Sinnis, G., Smy, M. B., Snow, S., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H. W., Sonoda, Y., Spina, R., Stewart, T., Stone, J. L., Suda, Y., Suwa, Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Svoboda, R., Taani, M., Tacik, R., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Taketa, A., Takeuchi, Y., Takhistov, V., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tanaka, H., Terri, R., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L. F., Thorpe, M., Tobayama, S., Touramanis, C., Towstego, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tsui, K. M., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M. R., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vogelaar, R. B., Walding, J., Walker, J., Ward, M., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Xin, T., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yeum, D. N., Yokoyama, M., Yoshida, T., Yu, I., Yu, M., Zalipska, J., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zito, M., and Zsoldos, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: On the strength of a double Nobel prize winning experiment (Super)Kamiokande and an extremely successful long baseline neutrino programme, the third generation Water Cherenkov detector, Hyper-Kamiokande, is being developed by an international collaboration as a leading worldwide experiment based in Japan. The Hyper-Kamiokande detector will be hosted in the Tochibora mine, about 295 km away from the J-PARC proton accelerator research complex in Tokai, Japan. The currently existing accelerator will be steadily upgraded to reach a MW beam by the start of the experiment. A suite of near detectors will be vital to constrain the beam for neutrino oscillation measurements. A new cavern will be excavated at the Tochibora mine to host the detector. The experiment will be the largest underground water Cherenkov detector in the world and will be instrumented with new technology photosensors, faster and with higher quantum efficiency than the ones in Super-Kamiokande. The science that will be developed will be able to shape the future theoretical framework and generations of experiments. Hyper-Kamiokande will be able to measure with the highest precision the leptonic CP violation that could explain the baryon asymmetry in the Universe. The experiment also has a demonstrated excellent capability to search for proton decay, providing a significant improvement in discovery sensitivity over current searches for the proton lifetime. The atmospheric neutrinos will allow to determine the neutrino mass ordering and, together with the beam, able to precisely test the three-flavour neutrino oscillation paradigm and search for new phenomena. A strong astrophysical programme will be carried out at the experiment that will detect supernova neutrinos and will measure precisely solar neutrino oscillation., Comment: 325 pages
Published: 2018

35. Characterisation of nuclear effects in muon-neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon with a measurement of final-state kinematics and correlations in charged-current pionless interactions at T2K

Author: Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Berns, L., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Toki, W., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., Zsoldos, S., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports measurements of final-state proton multiplicity, muon and proton kinematics, and their correlations in charged-current pionless neutrino interactions, measured by the T2K ND280 near detector in its plastic scintillator (C$_8$H$_8$) target. The data were taken between years 2010 and 2013, corresponding to approximately 6$\times10^{20}$ protons on target. Thanks to their exploration of the proton kinematics and of kinematic imbalances between the proton and muon kinematics, the results offer a novel probe of the nuclear-medium effects most pertinent to the (sub-)GeV neutrino-nucleus interactions that are used in accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino oscillation measurements. These results are compared to many neutrino-nucleus interaction models which all fail to describe at least part of the observed phase space. In case of events without a proton above a detection threshold in the final state, a fully consistent implementation of the local Fermi gas model with multinucleon interactions gives the best description of the data. In the case of at least one proton in the final state the spectral function model agrees well with the data, most notably when measuring the kinematic imbalance between the muon and the proton in the plane transverse to the incoming neutrino. A clear indication of existence of multinucleon interactions is observed. The effect of final-state interactions is also discussed., Comment: 49 pages, 31 figures - version submitted to PRD following comments from referee
Published: 2018
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36. 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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37. Measurement of inclusive double-differential $\nu_\mu$ charged-current cross section with improved acceptance in the T2K off-axis near detector

Author: T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Azuma, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Berner, R. M., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hamacher-Baumann, P., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, T., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Niewczas, K., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Smirnov, A., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., Zito, M., and Zykova, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a measurement of the flux-integrated cross section for inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon. The double differential measurements are given as function of the muon momentum and angle. Relative to our previous publication on this topic, these results have an increased angular acceptance and higher statistics. The data sample presented here corresponds to $5.7 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target. The total flux-integrated cross section is measured to be $(6.950 \pm 0.662) \times 10^{-39}$ cm$^2$nucleon$^{-1}$ and is consistent with our simulation.
Published: 2018
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38. Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

Author: Amaudruz, P. -A., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bishop, D., Bonatt, J., Boorman, G., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bromwich, T., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Chan, S., Chen, M., Chouinard, R., Churchwell, S., Cleveland, B. T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., DiGioseffo, J., Dittmeier, S., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Giampa, P., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Gornea, R., Grace, E., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Gulyev, E., Hall, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, O., Lidgard, J. J., Liimatainen, P., Lim, C., Lindner, T., Linn, Y., Liu, S., Majewski, P., Mathew, R., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McFarlane, K., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mead, S., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Muir, A., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Ohlmann, C., Olchanski, K., Olsen, K. S., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rau, W., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Shaw, B., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Tang, J., Taylor, J., Veloce, L., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., White, R., Woolsey, E., and Zielinski, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is $10^{-46}~\rm{cm}^{2}$ for a 100 GeV/$c^2$ WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years. This paper describes the physical properties and construction of the DEAP-3600 detector., Comment: minor corrections in version 2. 70 pages, 24 figures, to be submitted to Astroparticle Physics Journal
Published: 2017
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39. 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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40. 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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41. Electromagnetic backgrounds and potassium-42 activity in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

Author: Ajaj, R, Araujo, GR, Batygov, M, Beltran, B, Bina, CE, Boulay, MG, Broerman, B, Bueno, JF, Burghardt, PM, Butcher, A, Cai, B, Cárdenas-Montes, M, Cavuoti, S, Chen, M, Chen, Y, Cleveland, BT, Dering, K, Duncan, FA, Dunford, M, Erlandson, A, Fatemighomi, N, Fiorillo, G, Flower, A, Ford, RJ, Gagnon, R, Gallacher, D, García Abia, P, Garg, S, Giampa, P, Goeldi, D, Golovko, VV, Gorel, P, Graham, K, Grant, DR, Hallin, AL, Hamstra, M, Harvey, PJ, Hearns, C, Joy, A, Jillings, CJ, Kamaev, O, Kaur, G, Kemp, A, Kochanek, I, Kuźniak, M, Langrock, S, La Zia, F, Lehnert, B, Li, X, Litvinov, O, Lock, J, Longo, G, Majewski, P, McDonald, AB, McElroy, T, McGinn, T, McLaughlin, JB, Mehdiyev, R, Mielnichuk, C, Monroe, J, Nadeau, P, Nantais, C, Ng, C, Noble, AJ, Ouellet, C, Pasuthip, P, Peeters, SJM, Pesudo, V, Piro, MC, Pollmann, TR, Rand, ET, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Sanchez García, E, Santorelli, R, Seeburn, N, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, NJT, Sonley, T, Stainforth, R, Stone, C, Strickland, V, Sur, B, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E, Veloce, L, Viel, S, Walding, J, Waqar, M, Ward, M, Westerdale, S, Willis, J, and Zuñiga-Reyes, A
Subjects: nucl-ex, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: The DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for weakly interacting massive particles dark matter with a 3.3 ×103 kg single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located 2.1 km underground at SNOLAB. The experimental signature of dark matter interactions is kilo electron volt-scale Ar40 nuclear recoils producing 128 nm LAr scintillation photons observed by photomultiplier tubes. The largest backgrounds in DEAP-3600 are electronic recoils (ERs) induced by β and γ rays originating from internal and external radioactivity in the detector material. A background model of the ER interactions in DEAP-3600 was developed and is described in this work. The model is based on several components which are expected from radioisotopes in the LAr, from ex situ material assay measurements, and from dedicated independent in situ analyses. This prior information is used in a Bayesian fit of the ER components to a 247.2 d dataset to model the radioactivity in the surrounding detector materials. Pulse-shape discrimination separates ER and NR events. However, detailed knowledge of the ER background and activity of detector components sets valuable constraints on NR backgrounds including neutrons and alphas. In addition, the activity of Ar42 in LAr in DEAP-3600 is determined by measuring the daughter decay of K42. This cosmogenically activated trace isotope is a relevant background at higher energies for other rare event searches using atmospheric argon, e.g., DarkSide-20k, GERDA, or LEGEND. The specific activity of Ar42 in the atmosphere is found to be 40.4±5.9 μBq/kg of argon.
Published: 2019

42. In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment

Author: Amaudruz, P-A, Batygov, M, Beltran, B, Bina, CE, Bishop, D, Bonatt, J, Boorman, G, Boulay, MG, Broerman, B, Bromwich, T, Bueno, JF, Butcher, A, Cai, B, Chan, S, Chen, M, Chouinard, R, Churchwell, S, Cleveland, BT, Cranshaw, D, Dering, K, Dittmeier, S, Duncan, FA, Dunford, M, Erlandson, A, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, RJ, Gagnon, R, Giampa, P, Golovko, VV, Gorel, P, Gornea, R, Grace, E, Graham, K, Grant, DR, Gulyev, E, Hall, A, Hallin, AL, Hamstra, M, Harvey, PJ, Hearns, C, Jillings, CJ, Kamaev, O, Kemp, A, Kuźniak, M, Langrock, S, La Zia, F, Lehnert, B, Li, O, Lidgard, JJ, Liimatainen, P, Lim, C, Lindner, T, Linn, Y, Liu, S, Mathew, R, McDonald, AB, McElroy, T, McFarlane, K, McLaughlin, J, Mead, S, Mehdiyev, R, Mielnichuk, C, Monroe, J, Muir, A, Nadeau, P, Nantais, C, Ng, C, Noble, AJ, O’Dwyer, E, Ohlmann, C, Olchanski, K, Olsen, KS, Ouellet, C, Pasuthip, P, Peeters, SJM, Pollmann, TR, Rand, ET, Rau, W, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Seeburn, N, Shaw, B, Singhrao, K, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, NJT, Sonley, T, Stainforth, R, Stone, C, Strickland, V, Sur, B, Tang, J, Taylor, J, Veloce, L, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E, Walding, J, Ward, M, Westerdale, S, White, R, and Woolsey, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, PMT, Hamamatsu R5912-HQE, Single photoelectron charge distribution, Afterpulsing, Late and double pulsing, Dark noise, Dark matter detection, physics.ins-det, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract: The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of significant interest for future dark matter and neutrino experiments where high signal yields are needed. We report on the methods developed for in-situ characterization and monitoring of DEAP's 255 R5912-HQE PMTs. This includes a detailed discussion of typical measured single-photoelectron charge distributions, correlated noise (afterpulsing), dark noise, double, and late pulsing characteristics. The characterization is performed during the detector commissioning phase using laser light injected through a light diffusing sphere and during normal detector operation using LED light injected through optical fibres.
Published: 2019

43. In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment

Author: Amaudruz, PA, Batygov, M, Beltran, B, Bina, CE, Bishop, D, Bonatt, J, Boorman, G, Boulay, MG, Broerman, B, Bromwich, T, Bueno, JF, Butcher, A, Cai, B, Chan, S, Chen, M, Chouinard, R, Churchwell, S, Cleveland, BT, Cranshaw, D, Dering, K, Dittmeier, S, Duncan, FA, Dunford, M, Erlandson, A, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, RJ, Gagnon, R, Giampa, P, Golovko, VV, Gorel, P, Gornea, R, Grace, E, Graham, K, Grant, DR, Gulyev, E, Hall, A, Hallin, AL, Hamstra, M, Harvey, PJ, Hearns, C, Jillings, CJ, Kamaev, O, Kemp, A, Kuźniak, M, Langrock, S, La Zia, F, Lehnert, B, Li, O, Lidgard, JJ, Liimatainen, P, Lim, C, Lindner, T, Linn, Y, Liu, S, Mathew, R, McDonald, AB, McElroy, T, McFarlane, K, McLaughlin, J, Mead, S, Mehdiyev, R, Mielnichuk, C, Monroe, J, Muir, A, Nadeau, P, Nantais, C, Ng, C, Noble, AJ, O'Dwyer, E, Ohlmann, C, Olchanski, K, Olsen, KS, Ouellet, C, Pasuthip, P, Peeters, SJM, Pollmann, TR, Rand, ET, Rau, W, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Seeburn, N, Shaw, B, Singhrao, K, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, NJT, Sonley, T, Stainforth, R, Stone, C, Strickland, V, Sur, B, Tang, J, Taylor, J, Veloce, L, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E, Walding, J, Ward, M, Westerdale, S, White, R, and Woolsey, E
Subjects: PMT, Hamamatsu R5912-HQE, Single photoelectron charge distribution, Afterpulsing, Late and double pulsing, Dark noise, Dark matter detection, physics.ins-det, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences
Abstract: The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of significant interest for future dark matter and neutrino experiments where high signal yields are needed. We report on the methods developed for in-situ characterization and monitoring of DEAP's 255 R5912-HQE PMTs. This includes a detailed discussion of typical measured single-photoelectron charge distributions, correlated noise (afterpulsing), dark noise, double, and late pulsing characteristics. The characterization is performed during the detector commissioning phase using laser light injected through a light diffusing sphere and during normal detector operation using LED light injected through optical fibres.
Published: 2019

44. Design and construction of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

Author: Amaudruz, P-A, Baldwin, M, Batygov, M, Beltran, B, Bina, CE, Bishop, D, Bonatt, J, Boorman, G, Boulay, MG, Broerman, B, Bromwich, T, Bueno, JF, Burghardt, PM, Butcher, A, Cai, B, Chan, S, Chen, M, Chouinard, R, Churchwell, S, Cleveland, BT, Cranshaw, D, Dering, K, DiGioseffo, J, Dittmeier, S, Duncan, FA, Dunford, M, Erlandson, A, Fatemighomi, N, Florian, S, Flower, A, Ford, RJ, Gagnon, R, Giampa, P, Golovko, VV, Gorel, P, Gornea, R, Grace, E, Graham, K, Grant, DR, Gulyev, E, Hall, A, Hallin, AL, Hamstra, M, Harvey, PJ, Hearns, C, Jillings, CJ, Kamaev, O, Kemp, A, Kuźniak, M, Langrock, S, La Zia, F, Lehnert, B, Li, O, Lidgard, JJ, Liimatainen, P, Lim, C, Lindner, T, Linn, Y, Liu, S, Majewski, P, Mathew, R, McDonald, AB, McElroy, T, McFarlane, K, McGinn, T, McLaughlin, JB, Mead, S, Mehdiyev, R, Mielnichuk, C, Monroe, J, Muir, A, Nadeau, P, Nantais, C, Ng, C, Noble, AJ, O’Dwyer, E, Ohlmann, C, Olchanski, K, Olsen, KS, Ouellet, C, Pasuthip, P, Peeters, SJM, Pollmann, TR, Rand, ET, Rau, W, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Seeburn, N, Shaw, B, Singhrao, K, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, NJT, Sonley, T, Soukup, J, Stainforth, R, Stone, C, Strickland, V, Sur, B, and Tang, J
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Dark matter, WIMP, Liquid Argon, DEAP, SNOLAB, Low background, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is 10−46cm2 for a 100 GeV/c2 WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years. This paper describes the physical properties and construction of the DEAP-3600 detector.
Published: 2019

45. Design and construction of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

Author: Amaudruz, PA, Baldwin, M, Batygov, M, Beltran, B, Bina, CE, Bishop, D, Bonatt, J, Boorman, G, Boulay, MG, Broerman, B, Bromwich, T, Bueno, JF, Burghardt, PM, Butcher, A, Cai, B, Chan, S, Chen, M, Chouinard, R, Churchwell, S, Cleveland, BT, Cranshaw, D, Dering, K, DiGioseffo, J, Dittmeier, S, Duncan, FA, Dunford, M, Erlandson, A, Fatemighomi, N, Florian, S, Flower, A, Ford, RJ, Gagnon, R, Giampa, P, Golovko, VV, Gorel, P, Gornea, R, Grace, E, Graham, K, Grant, DR, Gulyev, E, Hall, A, Hallin, AL, Hamstra, M, Harvey, PJ, Hearns, C, Jillings, CJ, Kamaev, O, Kemp, A, Kuźniak, M, Langrock, S, La Zia, F, Lehnert, B, Li, O, Lidgard, JJ, Liimatainen, P, Lim, C, Lindner, T, Linn, Y, Liu, S, Majewski, P, Mathew, R, McDonald, AB, McElroy, T, McFarlane, K, McGinn, T, McLaughlin, JB, Mead, S, Mehdiyev, R, Mielnichuk, C, Monroe, J, Muir, A, Nadeau, P, Nantais, C, Ng, C, Noble, AJ, O'Dwyer, E, Ohlmann, C, Olchanski, K, Olsen, KS, Ouellet, C, Pasuthip, P, Peeters, SJM, Pollmann, TR, Rand, ET, Rau, W, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Seeburn, N, Shaw, B, Singhrao, K, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, NJT, Sonley, T, Soukup, J, Stainforth, R, Stone, C, Strickland, V, Sur, B, and Tang, J
Subjects: Dark matter, WIMP, Liquid Argon, DEAP, SNOLAB, Low background, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is 10−46cm2 for a 100 GeV/c2 WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years. This paper describes the physical properties and construction of the DEAP-3600 detector.
Published: 2019

46. 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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47. First measurement of the $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross section without pions in the final state on a water target

Author: T2K Collaboration, Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Anthony, L., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bourguille, B., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calcutt, J., Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Fiorillo, G., Francois, C., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Sasaki, S., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uno, W., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walker, J., Walter, C. W., Wang, Y., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yamasu, S., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yuan, T., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current interaction cross section of $\nu_{\mu}$ on water with no pions in the final state. This flux-averaged measurement has been made using the T2K experiment's off-axis near detector, and is reported in doubly-differential bins of muon momentum and angle. The flux-averaged total cross section in a restricted region of phase space was found to be $ \sigma= (0.95 \pm 0.08 (\mbox{stat}) \pm 0.06 (\mbox{det. syst.}) \pm 0.04(\mbox{model syst.}) \pm{} 0.08(\mbox{flux}) ) \times 10^{-38} \mbox{cm}^2$ per n.
Published: 2017
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48. 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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49. First results from the DEAP-3600 dark matter search with argon at SNOLAB

Author: Collaboration, DEAP-3600, Amaudruz, P. -A., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Bishop, D., Bonatt, J., Boorman, G., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bromwich, T., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Chan, S., Chen, M., Chouinard, R., Cleveland, B. T., Cranshaw, D., Dering, K., DiGioseffo, J., Dittmeier, S., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Florian, S., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Giampa, P., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Gornea, R., Grace, E., Graham, K., Gulyev, E., Hakobyan, R., Hall, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kemp, A., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Lidgard, J. J., Lim, C., Lindner, T., Linn, Y., Liu, S., Majewski, P., Mathew, R., McDonald, A. B., McElroy, T., McGinn, T., McLaughlin, J. B., Mead, S., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Muir, A., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., O'Dwyer, E., Ohlmann, C., Olchanski, K., Olsen, K. S., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rau, W., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Seeburn, N., Shaw, B., Singhrao, K., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Soukup, J., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Tang, J., Taylor, J., Veloce, L., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walding, J., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Woolsey, E., and Zielinski, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: This paper reports the first results of a direct dark matter search with the DEAP-3600 single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector. The experiment was performed 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada) utilizing a large target mass, with the LAr target contained in a spherical acrylic vessel of 3600 kg capacity. The LAr is viewed by an array of PMTs, which would register scintillation light produced by rare nuclear recoil signals induced by dark matter particle scattering. An analysis of 4.44 live days (fiducial exposure of 9.87 tonne-days) of data taken with the nearly full detector during the initial filling phase demonstrates the detector performance and the best electronic recoil rejection using pulse-shape discrimination in argon, with leakage $<1.2\times 10^{-7}$ (90% C.L.) between 16 and 33 keV$_{ee}$. No candidate signal events are observed, which results in the leading limit on WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section on argon, $<1.2\times 10^{-44}$ cm$^2$ for a 100 GeV/c$^2$ WIMP mass (90% C.L.)., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2017
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50. Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of $\nu_e$ interactions at the far detector

Author: Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S. B., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Avanzini, M. Buizza, Calland, R. G., Campbell, T., Cao, S., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Cervera, A., Chappell, A., Checchia, C., Cherdack, D., Chikuma, N., Christodoulou, G., Coleman, J., Collazuol, G., Coplowe, D., Cudd, A., Dabrowska, A., De Rosa, G., Dealtry, T., Denner, P. F., Dennis, S. R., Densham, C., Di Lodovico, F., Dolan, S., Drapier, O., Duffy, K. E., Dumarchez, J., Dunne, P., Emery-Schrenk, S., Ereditato, A., Feusels, T., Finch, A. J., Fiorentini, G. A., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, D., Fukuda, Y., Garcia, A., Giganti, C., Gizzarelli, F., Golan, T., Gonin, M., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haigh, J. T., Hansen, D., Harada, J., Hartz, M., Hasegawa, T., Hastings, N. C., Hayashino, T., Hayato, Y., Hillairet, A., Hiraki, T., Hiramoto, A., Hirota, S., Hogan, M., Holeczek, J., Hosomi, F., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Iwai, E., Iwamoto, K., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jiang, M., Johnson, S., Jonsson, P., Jung, C. K., Kabirnezhad, M., Kaboth, A. C., Kajita, T., Kakuno, H., Kameda, J., Karlen, D., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, H., Kim, J., King, S., Kisiel, J., Knight, A., Knox, A., Kobayashi, T., Koch, L., Koga, T., Koller, P. P., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Koshio, Y., Kowalik, K., Kudenko, Y., Kurjata, R., Kutter, T., Lagoda, J., Lamont, I., Lamoureux, M., Lasorak, P., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Licciardi, M., Lindner, T., Liptak, Z. J., Litchfield, R. P., Li, X., Longhin, A., Lopez, J. P., Lou, T., Ludovici, L., Lu, X., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Manly, S., Maret, L., Marino, A. D., Martin, J. F., Martins, P., Martynenko, S., Maruyama, T., Matveev, V., Mavrokoridis, K., Ma, W. Y., Mazzucato, E., McCarthy, M., McCauley, N., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., Mefodiev, A., Metelko, C., Mezzetto, M., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Mine, S., Missert, A., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Morrison, J., Mueller, Th. A., Nakadaira, T., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K. G., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, K. D., Nakanishi, Y., Nakayama, S., Nakaya, T., Nakayoshi, K., Nantais, C., Nielsen, C., Nishikawa, K., Nishimura, Y., Novella, P., Nowak, J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okumura, K., Okusawa, T., Oryszczak, W., Oser, S. M., Ovsyannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Palladino, V., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Patel, N. D., Paudyal, P., Pavin, M., Payne, D., Petrov, Y., Pickering, L., Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Pistillo, C., Popov, B., Posiadala-Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. -M., Pritchard, A., Przewlocki, P., Quilain, B., Radermacher, T., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Rayner, M. A., Reinherz-Aronis, E., Riccio, C., Rodrigues, P. A., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, S., Ruggeri, A. C., Rychter, A., Sakashita, K., Sánchez, F., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Schwehr, J., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Sgalaberna, D., Shah, R., Shaikhiev, A., Shaker, F., Shaw, D., Shiozawa, M., Shirahige, T., Smy, M., Sobczyk, J. T., Sobel, H., Steinmann, J., Stewart, T., Stowell, P., Suda, Y., Suvorov, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Tacik, R., Tada, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tamura, R., Tanaka, H. K., Tanaka, H. A., Thakore, T., Thompson, L. F., Tobayama, S., Toki, W., Tomura, T., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Vagins, M., Vallari, Z., Vasseur, G., Vilela, C., Vladisavljevic, T., Wachala, T., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilking, M. J., Wilkinson, C., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wret, C., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Yu, M., Zalewska, A., Zalipska, J., Zambelli, L., Zaremba, K., Ziembicki, M., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zito, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The T2K experiment reports an updated analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in appearance and disappearance channels. A sample of electron neutrino candidates at Super-Kamiokande in which a pion decay has been tagged is added to the four single-ring samples used in previous T2K oscillation analyses. Through combined analyses of these five samples, simultaneous measurements of four oscillation parameters, $|\Delta m^2_{32}|$, $\sin^2(\theta_{23})$, $\sin^2(\theta_{13})$, and $\delta_{CP}$ and of the mass ordering are made. A set of studies of simulated data indicates that the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters is not limited by neutrino interaction model uncertainty. Multiple oscillation analyses are performed, and frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of the oscillation parameters with and without the inclusion of reactor constraints on $\sin^2(\theta_{13})$. When combined with reactor measurements, the hypothesis of CP conservation ($\delta_{CP}$$=0$ or $\pi$) is excluded at 90% confidence level. The 90% confidence region for $\delta_{CP}$ is [-2.95,-0.44] ([-1.47, -1.27]) for normal (inverted) ordering. The central values and 68\% confidence intervals for the other oscillation parameters for normal (inverted) ordering are $\Delta m^{2}_{32}=2.54\pm0.08$ ($2.51\pm0.08$) $\times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2 / c^4$ and $\sin^2(\theta_{23}) = 0.55^{+0.05}_{-0.09}$ ($0.55^{+0.05}_{-0.08}$), compatible with maximal mixing. In the Bayesian analysis, the data weakly prefer normal ordering (Bayes factor 3.7) and the upper octant for $\sin^2(\theta_{23})$ (Bayes factor 2.4)., Comment: 50 pages, 50 figures
Published: 2017
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