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hep-ex2025

Search for neutron decay into an antineutrino and a neutral kaon in 0.401 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Yamauchi, K. Abe +261

We searched for bound neutron decay via predicted by the Grand Unified Theories in 0.401 Mtonyears exposure of all pure water phases in the Super-Kamiokande…

astro-ph.HE2021

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…

hep-ex2026

Search for proton decay via and in 0.401 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande I-V

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +310

We searched for proton decay via and in 0.401 megaton-years of data collected in all pure water detector phases of Super-Kamiok…

hep-ex2022

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…

astro-ph.HE2022

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

hep-ex2021

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…

astro-ph.GA2020

The impact of spectroscopic incompleteness in direct calibration of redshift distributions for weak lensing surveys

W. G. Hartley, C. Chang, S. Samani +74

Obtaining accurate distributions of galaxy redshifts is a critical aspect of weak lensing cosmology experiments. One of the methods used to estimate and validate redshift distribut…

hep-ex2022

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…

hep-ex2020

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for astrophysical electron antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01wt% gadolinium-loaded water

M. Harada, K. Abe, C. Bronner +238

We report the first search result for the flux of astrophysical electron antineutrinos for energies O(10) MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. In June 2020,…

astro-ph.HE2021

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…

hep-ex2025

Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments

NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597

The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…

hep-ex2023

Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with neutron tagging and an expanded fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-V

Kamiokande Collaboration, T. Wester, K. Abe +233

We present a measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the Super-Kamiokande detector using atmospheric neutrinos from the complete pure-water SK I-V (April 1996-July 2020…

hep-ex2026

Signal selection and model-independent extraction of pionless charged-current muon neutrino cross section using double-differential kinematic imbalance observables on carbon and oxygen with the T2K experiment

K. Abe, S. Abe, H. Adhikary +402

We present the first joint measurement of muon neutrino CC interactions on carbon and oxygen targets, in two double-differential kinematic imbalance (KI) observable spaces,…

hep-ex2026

Neutron multiplicity measurement in muon capture on oxygen nuclei in the Gd-loaded Super-Kamiokande detector

Kamiokande Collaboration, S. Miki, K. Abe +282

In recent neutrino detectors, neutrons produced in neutrino reactions play an important role. Muon capture on oxygen nuclei is one of the processes that produce neutrons in water C…

hep-ex2022

Testing Non-Standard Interactions Between Solar Neutrinos and Quarks with Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, P. Weatherly, K. Abe +268

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 sui…

astro-ph.SR2022

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…

hep-ex2022

Search for proton decay via in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, R. Matsumoto, K. Abe +229

We searched for proton decay via in 0.37\,Mtonyears of data collected between 1996 and 2018 from the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov experiment. The selection…

astro-ph.HE2021

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…

hep-ex2025

First Measurement of the Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Pion Production Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +392

The T2K Collaboration presents the first measurement of electron neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on carbon in a restricted kinematical phase space. This is perform…

hep-ex2024

First joint oscillation analysis of Super-Kamiokande atmospheric and T2K accelerator neutrino data

Super-Kamiokande, T2K collaborations, : +545

The Super-Kamiokande and T2K collaborations present a joint measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from their atmospheric and beam neutrino data. It uses a common interacti…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background with 956.2 days of Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium Dataset

K. Abe, S. Abe, Y. Asaoka +245

We report the search result for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) in neutrino energies beyond 9.3~MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector with $2…

hep-ex2024

Search for Periodic Time Variations of the Solar B Neutrino Flux between 1996 and 2018 in Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +233

We report a search for time variations of the solar B neutrino flux using 5804 live days of Super-Kamiokande data collected between May 31, 1996, and May 30, 2018. Super-Kamiok…

hep-ex2025

Modeling Scintillation Photon Transport and Reconstruction Algorithms for the Time-of-Flight Detector in the T2K Neutrino Experiment

C. Alt, A. Blanchet, S. Bordoni +18

The T2K ND280 upgrade aims to reduce the systematic uncertainty of the CP-violating phase, , to reject non-CP violation hypothesis at confidence level. A crucial com…

astro-ph.HE2024

Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System

Y. Kashiwagi, K. Abe, C. Bronner +236

Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determini…

astro-ph.HE2026

Development of Faster and More Accurate Supernova Localization at Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe, Y. Asaoka, M. Harada +272

The next nearby core-collapse supernova (SN) promises to yield a treasure of scientific information through multi-messenger astronomy. Early observations of the shock breakout (SBO…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the solar neutrino interaction rate below 3.49 MeV in Super-Kamiokande-IV

Kamiokande Collaboration, A. Yankelevich, K. Abe +250

Super-Kamiokande (SK) has observed solar neutrino elastic scattering at recoil electron kinetic energies () as low as 3.49 MeV to study neutrino flav…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of the cosmogenic neutron yield in Super-Kamiokande with gadolinium loaded water

Kamiokande Collaboration, M. Shinoki, K. Abe +238

Cosmic-ray muons that enter the Super-Kamiokande detector cause hadronic showers due to spallation in water, producing neutrons and radioactive isotopes. Those are a major backgrou…

physics.ins-det2021

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(…

astro-ph.IM2021

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

First Associated Neutrino Search for a Failed Supernova Candidate with Super-Kamiokande

F. Nakanishi, K. Abe, S. Abe +243

In 2024, a failed supernova candidate, M31-2014-DS1, was reported in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), located at a distance of approximately 770 kpc. In this paper, we search for neutri…

hep-ex2026

TeV-scale neutrino cross-section measurement using upward through-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

N. Bhuiyan, K. Abe, Y. Asaoka +248

Neutrinos provide a unique probe of both particle physics and the high-energy universe, traversing astronomical distances with minimal interaction. Their charged-current scattering…

hep-ex2024

Search for proton decay via and with a 0.37 Mton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, N. Taniuchi, K. Abe +288

A search for proton decay into and a meson has been performed using data from a 0.373 Mtonyear exposure (6050.3 live days) of Super-Kamiokande. Compared to p…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande collaboration, S. Han, K. Abe +280

We present measurements of total neutron production from atmospheric neutrino interactions in water, analyzed as a function of electron-equivalent visible energy over a range of 30…

hep-ex2024

Measurements of the charge ratio and polarization of cosmic-ray muons with the Super-Kamiokande detector

H. Kitagawa, T. Tada, K. Abe +253

We present the results of the charge ratio () and polarization () measurements using the decay electron events collected from 2008 September to 2022 June by the Super-…

hep-ex2025

Testing T2K's Bayesian constraints with priors in alternate parameterisations

The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +400

Bayesian analysis results require a choice of prior distribution. In long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics, the usual parameterisation of the mixing matrix induces a prior tha…

physics.ins-det2020

Pulse Shape Particle Identification by a Single Large Hemispherical Photo-Multiplier Tube

S. Samani, S. Mandalia, C. Argüelles +8

In neutrino experiments, hemispherical photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are often used to cover large surfaces or volumes to maximize the photocathode coverage with a minimum number of…

physics.ins-det2025

Introducing a Markov Chain-Based Time Calibration Procedure for Multi-Channel Particle Detectors: Application to the SuperFGD and ToF Detectors of the T2K Experiment

S. Abe, H. Alarakia-Charles, I. Alekseev +190

Inter-channel mis-synchronisation can be a limiting factor to the time resolution of high performance timing detectors with multiple readout channels and independent electronics un…

nucl-ex2025

Measurement of the branching ratio of , , , and isotopes through the nuclear muon capture reaction in the Super-Kamiokande detector

Y. Maekawa, K. Abe, S. Abe +263

The Super-Kamiokande detector has measured solar neutrinos for more than years. The sensitivity for solar neutrino measurement is limited by the uncertainties of energy scale…

hep-ex2026

Constraining Neutrino Interaction Uncertainties for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements at the T2K Experiment

K. Abe, S. Abe, H. Adhikary +438

In the context of neutrino oscillation measurements from the T2K experiment, the off-axis near detector ND280 plays a crucial role in constraining the incoming neutrino flux and ne…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos in the SK-Gd experiment

S. Sakai, K. Abe, C. Bronner +233

We report the first measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic (NCQE) cross section in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) water Cherenkov…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2026

First double-differential measurement of pionless charged-current muon neutrino interactions using kinematic imbalance observables on carbon and oxygen with the T2K experiment

K. Abe, S. Abe, H. Adhikary +402

The T2K experiment measured the muon-neutrino charged‑current cross section without pions on carbon and oxygen using kinematic imbalance observables, providing double‑differential…

#neutrino-nucleus interactions#charged-current#kinematic imbalance#carbon target
hep-ex2026

Measurement of muon neutrino induced charged current interactions without charged pions in the final state using a new T2K off-axis near detector WAGASCI-BabyMIND

K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +398

We report a flux-integrated cross section measurement of muon neutrino interactions on water and hydrocarbon via charged current reactions without charged pions in the final state…

hep-ex2022

Pre-Supernova Alert System for Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, L. N. Machado, K. Abe +223

In 2020, the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment moved to a new stage (SK-Gd) in which gadolinium (Gd) sulfate octahydrate was added to the water in the detector, enhancing the effici…

astro-ph.IM2024

Development of a data overflow protection system for Super-Kamiokande to maximize data from nearby supernovae

M. Mori, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +252

Neutrinos from very nearby supernovae, such as Betelgeuse, are expected to generate more than ten million events over 10\,s in Super-Kamokande (SK). At such large event rates, the…

physics.ins-det2024

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +246

The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture…

hep-ex2026

Search for nucleon decay via and in 0.484 Mton-year of Super-Kamiokande data

Kamiokande Collaboration, S. Jung, K. Abe +243

We present the results of searches for nucleon decays via and using a 0.484 Mtyr exposure of Super-Kamiokande I-V data covering…

hep-ex2025

Results from the T2K experiment on neutrino mixing including a new far detector -like sample

The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +404

We have made improved measurements of three-flavor neutrino mixing with 19.7(16.3) protons on target in (anti-)neutrino-enhanced beam modes. A new sample of muon-ne…

hep-ex2023

Search for Cosmic-ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +218

We report a search for cosmic-ray boosted dark matter with protons using the 0.37 megatonyears data collected at Super-Kamiokande experiment during the 1996-2018 period (SK…