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

Autor: J. S. Jang, B. Bodur, Yuji Kishimoto, L. H. V. Anthony, Rongkun Wang, J. L. Raaf, L. Labarga, K. Nakamura, T. Niwa, T. Kobayashi, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, M. Jakkapu, M. Hartz, Y. Nishimura, P. Weatherly, S. Moriyama, Y. Isobe, T. Boschi, Hiroshi Ito, B. Richards, G. Santucci, Masayuki Nakahata, N. Ospina, Y. Uchida, V. Takhistov, C. K. Jung, M. Mori, M. Taani, Y. Sonoda, M. Ikeda, M. Koshiba, P. de Perio, T. Yano, A. T. Suzuki, K. Okamoto, J. F. Martin, Masato Shiozawa, Y. Choi, Yoshitaka Itow, H. Okazawa, G. Pintaudi, E. Radicioni, L. Ludovici, W. R. Kropp, K. Sakashita, Yutaka Nakajima, C. Xu, Hiroaki Menjo, P. Paganini, M. Miura, T. Nakadaira, G. Pronost, F. Iacob, R. G. Park, B. D. Xu, N. F. Calabria, O. Drapier, Makoto Sakuda, Ke. Nakamura, M. Jiang, A. Coffani, M. Posiadala-Zezula, T. Horai, Ko Okumura, H. W. Sobel, S. Matsuno, A. Giampaolo, S. Molina Sedgwick, Yuuki Nakano, T. Mochizuki, T. Tashiro, T. Towstego, S. Imaizumi, K. Hagiwara, H.A. Tanaka, S. Cao, S. Sakai, B. W. Pointon, F. Nova, R. Sasaki, R. Matsumoto, Intae Yu, P. Mehta, Y. Kataoka, D. Fukuda, C. Bronner, M. G. Catanesi, S. Han, Pablo Fernandez, H. Miyabe, M. J. Wilking, Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, C. M. Nantais, D. Bravo-Berguño, B. Quilain, J. G. Learned, K. Yasutome, S. Zsoldos, Y. Kuno, Ke. Abe, K. Nishijima, S. Locke, Atsushi Takeda, J. C. Hill, K. Ohta, T. Wester, E. Kearns, Vincenzo Berardi, N. Piplani, G. De Rosa, Masashi Yokoyama, J. L. Stone, David A. Wark, J. Y. Yang, M. Tsukada, Y. Takahira, Masaki Ishitsuka, M. Thiesse, K. Iwamoto, G.D. Barr, A. Konaka, S. J. Jenkins, M. R. Vagins, J. Walker, N. J. Griskevich, A. Ali, Yusuke Koshio, Y. Takemoto, A. Pritchard, W. Y. Ma, D. Barrow, L. F. Thompson, T. Ishizuka, Makoto Hasegawa, Y. Nagao, J. McElwee, A. Minamino, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, B. Jamieson, M. Shinoki, K. Frankiewicz, N. McCauley, S. B. Kim, I. T. Lim, S. Yamamoto, T. Matsubara, J. Y. Kim, A. Orii, S. El Hedri, J. Feng, L. Cook, Y. Takeuchi, T. Kajita, J. Bian, H. K. Tanaka, Seiko Hirota, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, J. Xia, M. Friend, Masaaki Tanaka, N. W. Prouse, C. W. Walter, T. Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Y. Fukuda, L. Wan, R. Akutsu, Y. Hayato, T. Sekiguchi, Yasunari Suzuki, T. Shiozawa, C. Vilela, Ll. Marti, T. Yoshida, Song Chen, K. S. Ganezer, Yuto Ashida, T. Tsukamoto, T. Okada, T. Nakamura, N. Ogawa, T. Ishida, C. Yanagisawa, A. Goldsack, S. Nakayama, R. A. Wendell, A. Takenaka, K. Sato, A. K. Ichikawa, J. Kameda, Th. A. Mueller, Shintaro Ito, P. Mijakowski, Kalen Martens, Kate Scholberg, S. Mine, K. M. Tsui, Takehisa Hasegawa, M. Lamoureux, Hirokazu Ishino, Chris Simpson, G. Collazuol, F. Di Lodovico, M. Kuze, M. Inomoto, A. A. Sztuc, M. B. Smy, B. Zaldivar, Yuta Kato, L. N. Machado, M. Harada
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review D. 102
ISSN: 2470-0029
2470-0010
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.112011
Popis: We have searched for proton decay via p→e+π0 and p→μ+π0 modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresponds to 450 kton·years exposure. We have accumulated about 25% more livetime and enlarged the fiducial volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector from 22.5 kton to 27.2 kton for this analysis, so that 144 kton·years of data, including 78 kton·years of additional fiducial volume data, has been newly analyzed. No candidates have been found for p→e+π0 and one candidate remains for p→μ+π0 in the conventional 22.5 kton fiducial volume and it is consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background prediction. We set lower limits on the partial lifetime for each of these modes: τ/B(p→e+π0)>2.4×1034 years and τ/B(p→μ+π0)>1.6×1034 years at 90% confidence level.
Databáze: OpenAIRE