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20202026
most citedDiffuse Supernova Neutrino Background Search at Super-Kamiokande

103 citations · 458 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

hep-ex2026

Search for the Decay Mode in Super-Kamiokande Using Machine Learning Techniques

Kamiokande Collaboration, J. Feng, K. Abe +296

We report a new partial lifetime limit of years for the trinucleon decay mode , obtained from a searc…

hep-ex2026

Search for proton decay into a single charged antilepton and a massless invisible particle using the full pure water data set of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, Y. M. Liu, K. Terada +244

A search for proton decay via , where is a positively charged lepton and is an invisible, massless, neutral particle, was performed using a 401~kt…

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-Kamiokande…

physics.ins-det2026

Excavation of a 69-m diameter and 94-m high cavern for the Hyper-Kamiokande detector

Y. Asaoka, H. Tanaka, S. Nakayama +14

The excavation of the Hyper-Kamiokande cavern, 600 m underground, is complete. Measuring 69 m in diameter and 94 m in height, it is among the world's largest rock caverns. A vertic…

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

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-ex2025

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 the…

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…

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…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

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-K…

hep-ex2023★ 35 cited

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.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…