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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★ 34 cited

Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset

S. Abe, T. Araki, K. Chiba +69

We present a search for neutrinoless double-beta () decay of Xe using the full \mbox{KamLAND-Zen 800} dataset with 745\,kg of enriched xenon, corresponding to an expo…

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…

hep-ex2023★ 3 cited

Search for Charged Excited States of Dark Matter with KamLAND-Zen

Zen collaboration, S. Abe, M. Eizuka +64

Particle dark matter could belong to a multiplet that includes an electrically charged state. WIMP dark matter () accompanied by a negatively charged excited state ()…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

Zen Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +63

Cosmic-ray muons produce various radioisotopes when passing through material. These spallation products can be backgrounds for rare event searches such as in solar neutrino, double…

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…

hep-ex2022★ 15 cited

First measurement of the strange axial coupling constant using neutral-current quasielastic interactions of atmospheric neutrinos at KamLAND

KamLAND Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +61

We report a measurement of the strange axial coupling constant using atmospheric neutrino data at KamLAND. This constant is a component of the axial form factor of the neut…

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…

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…

hep-ex2022★ 243 cited

Search for the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in the Inverted Mass Ordering Region with KamLAND-Zen

Zen Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +70

The KamLAND-Zen experiment has provided stringent constraints on the neutrinoless double-beta () decay half-life in Xe using a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator. We re…

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…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

A Search for Charged Excitation of Dark Matter with the KamLAND-Zen Detector

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +68

There are many theories where a dark matter particle is part of a multiplet with an electrically charged state. If WIMP dark matter () is accompanied by a charged excited st…

hep-ex2019★ 73 cited

Precision Analysis of the Xe Two-Neutrino Spectrum in KamLAND-Zen and Its Impact on the Quenching of Nuclear Matrix Elements

Zen Collaboration

We present a precision analysis of the Xe two-neutrino electron spectrum above 0.8 MeV, based on high-statistics data obtained with the KamLAND-Zen experiment. An impr…

hep-ex2016★ 980 cited

Search for Majorana Neutrinos near the Inverted Mass Hierarchy Region with KamLAND-Zen

Zen Collaboration

We present an improved search for neutrinoless double-beta () decay of Xe in the KamLAND-Zen experiment. Owing to purification of the xenon-loaded liquid scintillator…

hep-ex2015★ 40 cited

Measurement of parity-violating spin asymmetries in W production at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized collisions

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +447

We present measurements from the PHENIX experiment of large parity-violating single spin asymmetries of high transverse momentum electrons and positrons from decays, prod…