Search for Neutral Q-balls in Super-Kamiokande II

Autor: E. Guillian, S. Nakayama, John G. Learned, R. A. Wendell, David William Casper, Song Chen, H. Ogawa, K. S. Ganezer, J. P. Cravens, C. Yanagisawa, G. W. Sullivan, A. K. Ichikawa, J. Kameda, S. Hatakeyama, S. B. Kim, J. Y. Kim, Y. Totsuka, C. Regis, K. Ueshima, B. S. Yang, Y. Fukuda, T. Iida, C. K. Jung, J. L. Raaf, Steven Dazeley, K. K. Shiraishi, D. Kielczewska, N. Tanimoto, A. T. Suzuki, T. Ishida, W. Wang, C. Ishihara, M. D. Messier, Y. Takeuchi, H. Maesaka, Takuya Sasaki, H. Ishii, T. Kajita, Y. Gando, T. Nakadaira, Hiroshi Sato, H. Seo, N. Tamura, Makoto Sakuda, Y. Obayashi, Lawrence Sulak, Zhi Deng, J. L. Stone, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, H. Nishino, Y. Takenaga, K. Nishijima, S. Likhoded, Hiroshi Watanabe, M. Miura, K. Ishihara, C. McGrew, S. Clark, Y. Kuno, Masaki Ishitsuka, H. G. Berns, R. Terri, Makoto Hasegawa, K. Washburn, Y. Hayato, Yueh-Feng Liu, J. S. Jang, E. Kearns, M. Goldhaber, Yusuke Koshio, T. Kato, R. Gran, T. Sato, M. B. Smy, Shoji Yamamoto, W. E. Keig, W. R. Kropp, F. Dufour, R. W. Ellsworth, Y. Itow, Shigeki Tasaka, Masashi Yokoyama, R. Svoboda, K. Kaneyuki, C. Saji, S. Yamada, T. Iwashita, A. Sarrat, Yasunari Suzuki, M. R. Vagins, Atsushi Takeda, T. Ishii, T. Kobayashi, H. Okazawa, T. Ishizuka, C. Mitsuda, Shantanu Desai, J. Griskevich, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Alec Habig, M. Sugihara, S. Matsuno, R. J. Wilkes, Masato Shiozawa, Y. Choi, Y. Watanabe, G. Mitsuka, I. T. Lim, T. J. Haines, Michael Litos, Eric Thrane, M. Koshiba, Yuichi Oyama, Ko Okumura, Michitoshi Yoshida, Ke. Abe, Kunio Inoue, K. Nishikawa, A. Minamino, D. W. Liu, I. Higuchi, K. Nitta, K. Nakamura, S. Moriyama, Masayuki Nakahata, A. Herfurth, J. Dunmore, J. Hill, T. Koike, H. W. Sobel, Kate Scholberg, Hirokazu Ishino, S. Mine, Takehisa Hasegawa, C. W. Walter
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Popis: A search for Q-balls induced groups of successive contained events has been carried out in Super-Kamiokande II with 541.7 days of live time. Neutral Q-balls would emit pions when colliding with nuclei, generating a signal of successive contained pion events along a track. No candidate for successive contained event groups has been found in Super-Kamiokande II, so upper limits on the possible flux of such Q-balls have been obtained.
Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Databáze: OpenAIRE