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most citedSearch for proton decay via and with an enlarged fiducial volume in Super-Kamiokande I-IV

132 citations · 429 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

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 pre…

hep-ex2024★ 14 cited

Combined Pre-Supernova Alert System with Kamland and Super-Kamiokande

KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande Collaborations, : +311

Preceding a core-collapse supernova, various processes produce an increasing amount of neutrinos of all flavors characterized by mounting energies from the interior of massive star…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 23 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 52 cited

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,…

hep-ex2022

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…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

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★ 11 cited

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-ex2022★ 41 cited

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…

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.HE2022★ 18 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 16 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 6 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 1 cited

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(…

hep-ex2020★ 10 cited

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 solar…

hep-ex2020★ 132 cited

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 correspond…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

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…

hep-ex2019★ 10 cited

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 of…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 37 cited

Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande associated with the GW170817 neutron-star merger

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +160

We report the results of a neutrino search in Super-Kamiokande for coincident signals with the first detected gravitational wave produced by a binary neutron star merger, GW170817,…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

Search for an excess of events in the Super-Kamiokande detector in the directions of the astrophysical neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +158

We present the results of a search in the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector for excesses of neutrinos with energies above a few GeV that are in the direction of the track events repor…