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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★ 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-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★ 19 cited

Search for the proton decay mode with KamLAND

KamLAND Collaboration

We present a search for the proton decay mode based on an exposure of 8.97 kton-years in the KamLAND experiment. The liquid scintillator detector i…

hep-ex2015★ 275 cited

Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6E20 protons on target

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Adam +346

We report on measurements of neutrino oscillation using data from the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment collected between 2010 and 2013. In an analysis of muon neutrino disappe…

hep-ex2015★ 42 cited

Measurement of the charged current quasi-elastic cross-section on carbon with the T2K on-axis neutrino beam

K. Abe, J. Adam, H. Aihara +346

We report a measurement of the charged current quasi-elastic cross-sections on carbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam. The measured charged current quasi-elastic cross-secti…

hep-ex2014★ 54 cited

Measurement of the CCQE cross section on carbon with the ND280 detector at T2K

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Adam +342

The Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic (CCQE) interaction, , is the dominant CC process at GeV and contributes to the signal in accelerator-…

hep-ex2014★ 21 cited

Search for short baseline disappearance with the T2K near detector

K. Abe, J. Adam, H. Aihara +334

The T2K experiment has performed a search for disappearance due to sterile neutrinos using protons on target for a baseline of in a neutrino beam…

hep-ex2014★ 62 cited

Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

K. Abe, J. Adam, H. Aihara +318

The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross-section measurements of electron neutrino charged current interactions at energies ~1 GeV as a f…

hep-ex2014★ 49 cited

Measurement of the inclusive charged current cross section on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam

The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Adam +325

We report a measurement of the inclusive charged current cross sections on iron and hydrocarbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam. The measured inclusive charged current cross…

hep-ex2014★ 74 cited

7Be Solar Neutrino Measurement with KamLAND

A. Gando, Y. Gando, H. Hanakago +68

We report a measurement of the neutrino-electron elastic scattering rate of 862 keV 7Be solar neutrinos based on a 165.4 kton-day exposure of KamLAND. The observed rate is 582 +/-…

hep-ex2014★ 32 cited

Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation rays

K. Abe, J. Adam, H. Aihara +357

We report the first measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic (NCQE) cross section. It is obtained by observing nuclear deexcitation -rays which follow neu…

hep-ex2014★ 37 cited

Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Adam +338

The T2K experiment has reported the first observation of the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam. The main and irreducible background to the appearance signal…

hep-ex2013★ 521 cited

Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

K. Abe, J. Adam, H. Aihara +336

The T2K experiment has observed electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam produced 295 km from the Super-Kamiokande detector with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV. A total of 28…

hep-ex2013★ 3 cited

White paper: CeLAND - Investigation of the reactor antineutrino anomaly with an intense 144Ce-144Pr antineutrino source in KamLAND

A. Gando, Y. Gando, S. Hayashida +57

We propose to test for short baseline neutrino oscillations, implied by the recent reevaluation of the reactor antineutrino flux and by anomalous results from the gallium solar neu…

hep-ex2013★ 98 cited

Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from Muon Neutrino Disappearance with an Off-axis Beam

T2K collaboration, K. Abe, N. Abgrall +335

The T2K collaboration reports a precision measurement of muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV. Near detector measurements are us…

hep-ex2012★ 410 cited

Limit on Neutrinoless ββ Decay of Xe-136 from the First Phase of KamLAND-Zen and Comparison with the Positive Claim in Ge-76

Zen Collaboration

We present results from the first phase of the KamLAND-Zen double-beta decay experiment, corresponding to an exposure of 89.5 kg yr of Xe-136. We obtain a lower limit for the neutr…

hep-ex2012★ 231 cited

The T2K Neutrino Flux Prediction

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Abgrall +349

The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using an off-axis muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of about 0.6 GeV that originates at the J-PARC accelerat…

hep-ex2012★ 105 cited

Limits on Majoron-emitting double-beta decays of Xe-136 in the KamLAND-Zen experiment

Zen Collaboration, A. Gando, Y. Gando +37

We present limits on Majoron-emitting neutrinoless double-beta decay modes based on an exposure of 112.3 days with 125 kg of Xe-136. In particular, a lower limit on the ordinary (s…

hep-ex2011★ 76 cited

The 2010 Interim Report of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Collaboration Physics Working Groups

The LBNE Collaboration, T. Akiri, D. Allspach +329

In early 2010, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) science collaboration initiated a study to investigate the physics potential of the experiment with a broad set of diffe…

hep-ex2011★ 1.4k cited

Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Abgrall +408

The T2K experiment observes indications of appearance in data accumulated with protons on target. Six events pass all selection criteria at…

hep-ex2011★ 93 cited

Measurement of the 8B Solar Neutrino Flux with the KamLAND Liquid Scintillator Detector

KamLAND Collaboration, S. Abe, K. Furuno +77

We report a measurement of the neutrino-electron elastic scattering rate from 8B solar neutrinos based on a 123 kton-day exposure of KamLAND. The background-subtracted electron rec…