Search for nucleon decay into charged antilepton plus meson in 0.316 megaton·years exposure of the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector

Autor: A. T. Suzuki, Atsushi Takeda, J. F. Martin, N. D. Patel, Yusuke Suda, C. Vilela, T. Nakadaira, C. Xu, Makoto Sakuda, K. Ito, H. W. Sobel, Y. Takeuchi, T. Kajita, B. Quilain, M. B. Smy, Y. Sonoda, M. Elnimr, K. Sakashita, A. Konaka, Francesco Muto, Xiao-yan Li, T. Hasegawa, A. Cole, J. L. Stone, Y. Okajima, Yusuke Koshio, Ll. Marti, H. K. Tanaka, Kimihiro Okumura, M. Goldhaber, A. Pritchard, Yoshitaka Itow, J. L. Raaf, M. Miura, J. L. Palomino, R. A. Wendell, K. Choi, Pablo Fernandez, L. R. Sulak, C. Kachulis, J. Amey, T. Hayashino, H.A. Tanaka, G. Pronost, M. Friend, S. Cao, N. McCauley, C. M. Nantais, K. Huang, Z. Li, Song Chen, Makoto Hasegawa, C. W. Walter, Shintaro Ito, A. Kibayashi, C Shimpson, C. Bronner, Shigeki Tasaka, Lester D.R. Thompson, S. Tobayama, J. G. Learned, D. L. Wark, Takahiro Hiraki, M. Koshiba, S. N. Smith, Y. M. Zhang, J. S. Jang, R. G. Park, T. Tomura, K. S. Ganezer, S. Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sekiya, H. Nagata, A. Takenaka, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, H. Okazawa, M. J. Wilking, Soo-Bong Kim, Y. Fukuda, I. T. Lim, Takhistov, Yuichi Oyama, L. Wan, L. Labarga, M. Jiang, T. Nakamura, R. P. Litchfield, Ke. Abe, Takashi Kobayashi, T. Tsukamoto, C. Yanagisawa, S. Berkman, P. Weatherly, J. Kameda, A. Minamino, K. Abe, Yuji Kishimoto, S. Matsuno, Lhv Anthony, T. Ishida, P. Mijakowski, Kalen Martens, T. Yano, B. Richards, R. Akutsu, Ke. Nakamura, M. O. Wascko, R. Tacik, D. Fukuda, K. Kaneyuki, Yuuki Nakano, Y. Nishimura, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Y. Totsuka, Jy Kim, A. Himmel, R. G. Calland, K. Nishijima, T. Sekiguchi, Erin O'Sullivan, F. Di Lodovico, Y. Kuno, Yuta Kato, C. K. Jung, T. Ishii, M. Ikeda, Masato Shiozawa, Y. Choi, Y. Hayato, S. Locke, J. C. Hill, E. Kearns, Seiko Hirota, Masashi Yokoyama, T. Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, M. Hartz, K. Iyogi, W. Y. Ma, R. J. Wilkes, Hirokazu Ishino, Vagins, S. Mine, K. M. Tsui, J. Gustafson, Kate Scholberg, W. R. Kropp, K. Nakamura, K. Frankiewicz, A. Orii, S. Moriyama, G. Santucci, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, M. Murase
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Physical Review D. 96
ISSN: 2470-0029
2470-0010
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.96.012003
Popis: We have searched for proton decays into a charged antilepton (e+, μ+) plus a meson (η, ρ0, ω) and for neutron decays into a charged antilepton (e+, μ+) plus a meson (π−, ρ−) using Super-Kamiokande I-IV data, corresponding to 0.316 megaton⋅years of exposure. This measurement updates the previous published result by using 2.26 times more data and improved analysis methods. No significant evidence for nucleon decay is observed and lower limits on the partial lifetime of the nucleon are obtained. The limits range from 3×1031 to 1×1034 years at 90% confidence level, depending on the decay mode.
Databáze: OpenAIRE