Publications (61)
Measurement of inclusive double-differential charged-current cross section with improved acceptance in the T2K off-axis near detector
T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Amey +302
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 f…
Exploring Low Energy Excess in MINER with sapphire detectors using Convolutional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE)
D. Mondal, W. Baker, M. Chaudhuri +19
As cryogenic detectors push toward ever-lower energy thresholds, their sensitivity is increasingly constrained by a persistent low-energy background known as the low-energy excess…
Search for Astronomical Neutrinos from Blazar TXS0506+056 in Super-Kamiokande
K. Hagiwara, K. Abe, C. Bronner +169
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…
Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report
Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration, :, K. Abe +313
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 dete…
Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino neutral-current quasielastic-like interactions on oxygen by detecting nuclear de-excitation -rays
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +330
Neutrino- and antineutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic-like interactions are measured at Super-Kamiokande using nuclear de-excitation -rays to identify signal-like inte…
First measurement of the charged-current cross section without pions in the final state on a water target
T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Amey +303
This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current interaction cross section of on water with no pions in the final state. This flux-averaged meas…
CENS Search with Cryogenic Sapphire Detectors at MINER: Results from the TRIGA reactor data and Future Sensitivity at HFIR
D. Mondal, W. Baker, M. Chaudhuri +20
We report on a search for coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CENS) using cryogenic sapphire (AlO) detectors deployed at the Mitchell Institute Neutrino Expe…
Search for solar electron anti-neutrinos due to spin-flavor precession in the Sun with Super-Kamiokande-IV
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +197
Due to a very low production rate of electron anti-neutrinos () via nuclear fusion in the Sun, a flux of solar is unexpected. An appearance of in so…
Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Center and Halo with the Super-Kamiokande Detector
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +269
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 hal…
Search for supernova bursts in Super-Kamiokande IV
Kamiokande collaboration, M. Mori, K. Abe +242
Super-Kamiokande has been searching for neutrino bursts characteristic of core-collapse supernovae continuously, in real time, since the start of operations in 1996. The present wo…
The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment -- Snowmass LOI
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, P. Adrich +387
Hyper-Kamiokande is the next generation underground water Cherenkov detector that builds on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. The detector which has an 8.4~times l…
New Methods and Simulations for Cosmogenic Induced Spallation Removal in Super-Kamiokande-IV
Kamiokande Collaboration, S. Locke, A. Coffani +215
Radioactivity induced by cosmic muon spallation is a dominant source of backgrounds for MeV neutrino interactions in water Cherenkov detectors. In particular, it…
Neutron Tagging following Atmospheric Neutrino Events in a Water Cherenkov Detector
K. Abe, Y. Haga, Y. Hayato +301
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 estimate…
Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search using a 0.37 MegatonYear Exposure of Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +196
As a baryon number violating process with , neutron-antineutron oscillation () provides a unique test of baryon number conservation. We have performed a search f…
Proceedings of The Magnificent CENS Workshop 2018
D. Aristizabal Sierra, A. B. Balantekin, D. Caratelli +42
The Magnificent CENS Workshop (2018) was held November 2 & 3 of 2018 on the University of Chicago campus and brought together theorists, phenomenologists, and experimentalists…
Search for Tens of MeV Neutrinos associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, A. Orii, K. Abe +216
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…
Implementing Fault-tolerant Entangling Gates on the Five-qubit Code and the Color Code
C. Ryan-Anderson, N. C. Brown, M. S. Allman +34
We compare two different implementations of fault-tolerant entangling gates on logical qubits. In one instance, a twelve-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer is used to implement a n…
Radar Absorption, Basal Reflection, Thickness, and Polarization Measurements from the Ross Ice Shelf
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Besson +10
Radio-glaciological parameters from Moore's Bay, in the Ross Ice Shelf, have been measured. The thickness of the ice shelf in Moore's Bay was measured from reflection times of radi…
Search for proton decay via and with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV
Kamiokande Collaboration, A. Takenaka, K. Abe +211
We have searched for proton decay via and modes with the enlarged fiducial volume data of Super-Kamiokande from April 1996 to May 2018, which corresp…
Search for neutrinos in coincidence with gravitational wave events from the LIGO-Virgo O3a Observing Run with the Super-Kamiokande detector
Kamiokande collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +209
The Super-Kamiokande detector can be used to search for neutrinos in time coincidence with gravitational waves detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC). Both low-energy ($7-1…
T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using protons on target
K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +311
We report measurements by the T2K experiment of the parameters and which govern the disappearance of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos in the three-flavor PMN…
Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +314
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…
Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf
S. W. Barwick, D. Z. Besson, A. Burgman +15
The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 10^16 eV. The most neutrino-like background st…
Choice modelling in the age of machine learning -- discussion paper
S. Van Cranenburgh, S. Wang, A. Vij +2
Since its inception, the choice modelling field has been dominated by theory-driven modelling approaches. Machine learning offers an alternative data-driven approach for modelling…
Search for CP violation in Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations by the T2K experiment with protons on target
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +319
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)\tim…
Optical Readout of a Two Phase Liquid Argon TPC using CCD Camera and THGEMs
K. Mavrokoridis, F. Ball, J. Carroll +5
This paper presents a preliminary study into the use of CCDs to image secondary scintillation light generated by THick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) in a two phase LAr TPC. A S…
EXCESS workshop: Descriptions of rising low-energy spectra
P. Adari, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +303
Many low-threshold experiments observe sharply rising event rates of yet unknown origins below a few hundred eV, and larger than expected from known backgrounds. Due to the signifi…
Coherent versus Incoherent Light Scattering from a Quantum Dot
K. Konthasinghe, J. Walker, M. Peiris +8
We analyze the light scattered by a single InAs quantum dot interacting with a resonant continuous-wave laser. High resolution spectra reveal clear distinctions between coherent an…
Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K
K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +330
This paper reports the first simultaneous measurement of the double differential muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state a…
Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +378
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 fina…
Time Domain Response of the ARIANNA Detector
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Z. Besson +12
The Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) is a high-energy neutrino detector designed to record the Askaryan electric field signature of cosmogenic neutrino int…
Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance in a Long-baseline Muon Antineutrino Beam
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +341
Electron antineutrino appearance is measured by the T2K experiment in an accelerator-produced antineutrino beam, using additional neutrino beam operation to constrain parameters of…
Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with protons on target
T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Akhlaq +307
The T2K experiment reports updated measurements of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations using both appearance and disappearance channels. This result comes from an exposure of $1…
Measurement of the charged-current electron (anti-)neutrino inclusive cross-sections at the T2K off-axis near detector ND280
K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +366
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. Th…
Design and Performance of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array Systems
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Z. Besson +16
We report on the development, installation and operation of the first three of seven stations deployed at the ARIANNA site's pilot Hexagonal Radio Array in Antarctica. The primary…
A First Search for Cosmogenic Neutrinos with the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +35
The ARIANNA experiment seeks to observe the diffuse flux of neutrinos in the 10^8 - 10^10 GeV energy range using a grid of radio detectors at the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf of A…
Core-coupled states and split proton-neutron quasi-particle multiplets in 122-126Ag
S. Lalkovski, A. M. Bruce, A. Jungclaus +60
Neutron-rich silver isotopes were populated in the fragmentation of a 136Xe beam and the relativistic fission of 238U. The fragments were mass analyzed with the GSI Fragment separa…
First Measurement of the Charged Current Double Differential Cross Section on a Water Target without Pions in the final state
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +322
This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current interaction cross section on water with no pions in the final state. The unfolded flux…
Background Studies for the MINER Coherent Neutrino Scattering Reactor Experiment
MINER Collaboration, G. Agnolet, W. Baker +47
The proposed Mitchell Institute Neutrino Experiment at Reactor (MINER) experiment at the Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University will search for coherent elastic neutrino-nu…
Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background Search at Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +216
A new search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) flux has been conducted at Super-Kamiokande (SK), with a -ktonday exposure from its fourth…
Search for light sterile neutrinos with the T2K far detector Super-Kamiokande at a baseline of 295 km
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +318
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) protons on target i…
A Race Track Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor
S. A. Moses, C. H. Baldwin, M. S. Allman +93
We describe and benchmark a new quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) trapped-ion quantum computer based on a linear trap with periodic boundary conditions, which resembles a race t…
Measurement of the charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, iron, and their ratios with the T2K on-axis detectors
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +314
We report a measurement of the flux-integrated charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy o…
Flipping SU(5) out of Trouble
John Ellis, D. V. Nanopoulos, J. Walker
Minimal supersymmetric SU(5) GUTs are being squeezed by the recent values of alpha_s, sin^2 theta_W, the lower limit on the lifetime for p to nubar K decay, and other experimental…
High-fidelity and Fault-tolerant Teleportation of a Logical Qubit using Transversal Gates and Lattice Surgery on a Trapped-ion Quantum Computer
C. Ryan-Anderson, N. C. Brown, C. H. Baldwin +21
Quantum state teleportation is commonly used in designs for large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. Using Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum processor, we implement the firs…
First T2K measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance in the muon-neutrino charged-current single- production channel containing at least one proton
K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +308
This paper reports the first T2K measurement of the transverse kinematic imbalance in the single- production channel of neutrino interactions. We measure the differential cro…
Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Anti-neutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission
C. Simpson, K. Abe, C. Bronner +186
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…
MINER Reactor Based Search for Axion-Like Particles Using Sapphire (Al2O3) Detectors
M. Mirzakhani, W. Baker, M. Chaudhuri +20
The absence of definitive results for WIMP dark matter has sparked growing interest in alternative dark matter candidates, such as axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), which als…
Searching for neutrinos from solar flares across solar cycles 23 and 24 with the Super-Kamiokande detector
K. Okamoto, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +242
Neutrinos associated with solar flares (solar-flare neutrinos) provide information on particle acceleration mechanisms during the impulsive phase of solar flares. We searched using…
Constraint on the Matter-Antimatter Symmetry-Violating Phase in Neutrino Oscillations
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +332
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…
Performance of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +36
Installation of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array (HRA) on the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica has been completed. This detector serves as a pilot program to the ARIANNA neutrino tele…
Search for proton decay into three charged leptons in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of the Super-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, M. Tanaka, K. Abe +178
A search for proton decay into three charged leptons has been performed by using 0.37Mtonyears of data collected in Super-Kamiokande. All possible combinations of electr…
Physics Potentials with the Second Hyper-Kamiokande Detector in Korea
Hyper-Kamiokande proto-collaboration, :, K. Abe +353
Hyper-Kamiokande consists of two identical water-Cherenkov detectors of total 520~kt with the first one in Japan at 295~km from the J-PARC neutrino beam with 2.5 Off…
First Gadolinium Loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +212
In order to improve Super-Kamiokande's neutron detection efficiency and to thereby increase its sensitivity to the diffuse supernova neutrino background flux, 13 tons of $\rm Gd_2(…
Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, P. Adrich +499
Core-collapse supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants…
Measurements of and charged-current cross-sections without detected pions nor protons on water and hydrocarbon at mean antineutrino energy of 0.86 GeV
K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +366
We report measurements of the flux-integrated and charged-current cross-sections on water and hydrocarbon targets using the T2K anti-neutrino beam, wi…
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
K. Abe, J. Amey, C. Andreopoulos +302
This paper reports measurements of final-state proton multiplicity, muon and proton kinematics, and their correlations in charged-current pionless neutrino interactions, measured b…
First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +349
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 hydr…
Livetime and sensitivity of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +36
The ARIANNA collaboration completed the installation of the hexagonal radio array (HRA) in December 2014, serving as a pilot program for a planned high energy neutrino telescope lo…
Solar neutrino measurements using the full data period of Super-Kamiokande-IV
Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +322
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…
Search for heavy neutrinos with the T2K near detector ND280
K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +325
This paper reports on the search for heavy neutrinos with masses in the range MeV/c using the off-axis near detector ND280 of the T2K experiment. These partic…