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

132 citations · 657 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 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…

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-ex2022★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Improvement of radon detector performance by using a large-sized PIN-photodiode

K. Okamoto, Y. Nakano, G. Pronost +4

Radioactive noble gas radon () is one of the major background sources below the MeV region in rare event search experiments. To precisely measure radon concentra…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 103 cited

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…

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(…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

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-ex2020★ 43 cited

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 fo…

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 2 cited

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-ex2020★ 39 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande

Jost Migenda

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---neutron sta…

hep-ex2020★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 1 cited

Development of a method for determining the search window for solar flare neutrinos

K. Okamoto, Y. Nakano, S. Masuda +5

Neutrinos generated during solar flares remain elusive. However, after years of discussion and search, the potential knowledge unleashed by their discovery keeps the search cr…

physics.ins-det2019★ 14 cited

J-PARC Neutrino Beamline Upgrade Technical Design Report

K. Abe, H. Aihara, A. Ajmi +381

In this document, technical details of the upgrade plan of the J-PARC neutrino beamline for the extension of the T2K experiment are described. T2K has proposed to accumulate data c…